I'm always excited when Criterion dips into 1970s Hollywood, and was especially happy to get to write the essay for their release of Arthur Penn's 1975 neonoir Night Moves. Coming in March!
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I am often a skeptic about labeling something a neglected masterpiece--a lot of movies that got short shrift when they opened deserved it. But Night Moves, which was kind of shrugged off fifty years ago, is an extraordinary movie. I can't wait for more people to discover it.
This is a fantastic movie. I can't wait to read what you wrote and I hope that more people give it a watch. It's dark even for that period of the 1970s when it was made.
Oh wow I has no idea you wrote the essay for this upcoming Criterion release. I watched Night Moves the first time during the pandemic and I immediately watched it again! I have never done that before or since. The film is indeed extraordinary and I look forward to your essay.
I saw it years ago because it was one of the Roger Ebert Great Movies subjects. (Boy, that Criterion lineup for March is strong even by their standards, all four look to have Those Who Know flipping out.)
Oh god damn it I have to double dip. I bought the lame blue ray earlier this year. On the criterion Reddit this is usually interpreted as causal. Like washing a car and rain, etc.
But it is written by Alan Sharp, which makes it interesting. Or do you think it was ghostwritten? One reason. I always thought when Mosely sees his wife at the Chabrol film that it was La Femme Infidele, but supposedly in the book it is Le Boucher.
No I think Sharp wrote it. It reflects his restoration of all the things Penn changed. And shows why Penn was almost always right. [Far as I know, it was never supposed to be Infidele - it is Rohmer/Maud's in the movie (brilliant); Chabrol/Bucher in Sharp's draft and novelization (much less good)]
I watched this for the first time about two months ago and now think about it almost daily. It's just so sticky. Hoping your essay will provide some insight.
Great movie! (I've been trying to get my hands on Alan Sharp's novelisation of his screenplay for years). I usually pair my rewatches of NIGHT MOVES with HARPER, DROWNING POOL and Robert Benton's TWILIGHT
It's what I watch when I am stuck home sick :-) But it's also a HARPER trilogy (I like to think of TWILIGHT as the third Harper movie, since Newman is essentially playing the same guy). Another one to add to that movie marathon is MARLOWE.
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