Night Moves
Night Moves
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1h 39m
Directed by Arthur Penn • 1975 • United States
Starring Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns
Arthur Penn’s haunting neonoir reimagines the hard-boiled detective film for the disillusioned, paranoid 1970s. In one of his greatest performances, Gene Hackman oozes world-weary cynicism as a private investigator whose search for an actress’s missing daughter (Melanie Griffith) leads him from the Hollywood Hills to the Florida Keys, where he is pulled into a sordid family drama and a sinister conspiracy he can hardly grasp. Bolstered by Alan Sharp’s genre-scrambling script and Dede Allen’s elliptical editing, the daringly labyrinthine NIGHT MOVES is a defining work of post-Watergate cinema—a silent scream of existential dread and moral decay whose legend has only grown with time.
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NIGHT MOVES Commentary
This commentary track, recorded in 2024, features Matthew Asprey Gear, author of Moseby Confidential: Arthur Penn’s “Night Moves” and the Rise of Neo-Noir.
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Arthur Penn, 1975
The following interview with director Arthur Penn, recorded for the television series Cinema Showcase, originally aired in 1975.
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Arthur Penn, 1995
The following interview with director Arthur Penn is excerpted from the 1995 documentary Arthur Penn: A Love Affair with Film, made by Lars-Olav Beier and Robert Müller.
