Directed by Jerry Schatzberg • 1973 • United States
Starring Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan
Unforgettable performances from Gene Hackman and Al Pacino, the sensitive direction of Jerry Schatzberg, and the glowing landscape cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond come together for one of the defining road movies of the 1970s—a tender, richly human portrait of two hard-luck drifters. While traveling to Pittsburgh with the goal of opening a car wash, gruff ex-con Max (Hackman) meets Lion (Pacino), a clowning, amiable sailor who dreams of reuniting with his long-estranged wife and child in Detroit. Despite the vast differences in their temperaments, the two men develop a surprising bond as Lion helps Max learn to manage his anger, while Max comes to understand the fragility behind Lion’s good-natured facade.
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Night Moves
Directed by Arthur Penn • 1975 • United States
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Eureka
Directed by Nicolas Roeg • 1983 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger HauerA typically hallucinatory, fascinatingly fractured work of grandiose mythmaking from Nicolas Roeg, EUREKA was roundly ignored upon its release, but in its strangeness and sheer au...
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No Way Out
Directed by Roger Donaldson • 1987 • United States
Starring Gene Hackman, Kevin Costner, Sean YoungBased on Kenneth Fearing’s classic suspense novel THE BIG CLOCK (famously the basis for the 1948 Ray Milland/Charles Laughton noir), this gripping, inspired reimagining resets the story against th...
