Fifty years ago today, on August 13, 1967, Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty opened in New York "at the Murray Hill and the Forum, on 47th Street and Broadway, right in the middle of the Summer of Love, a few weeks after riots leveled the ghettos of Detroit and Newark," as Peter Biskind frames the event in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.
In 1967, "audiences and critics were drawn to the pop-Freud sexual tension between Bonnie and her 'lover' Clyde, who can't respond to her physically and experiences his only release when robbing banks and shooting guns, and to the bursts of graphic violence, which would be imitated in years to come, then one-upped, then made cartoonish," writes Matt Zoller Seitz. On that same page at RogerEbert.com, you'll find more reflections on the film from B. J. Bethel, Bob Calhoun, Sasha Kohan, and Brian Tallerico.
Olivia B. Waxman sketches a portrait of the original Bonnie and Clyde for Time. WNYC's Sara Fishko has reposted her interview with Penn, who passed away in 2010 (7'14").
Fathom Events and TCM are putting Bonnie and Clyde back in select theaters today and Wednesday.
Update, 8/15: At Cinephilia & Beyond, you'll find the screenplay and much more.
Update, 8/17: For the BFI, Samuel Wigley presents an annotated list, "One great New Hollywood film for every year (1967-82)," starting, of course, with Bonnie and Clyde.