I haven't mentioned the passing of another favourite director, Claude Chabrol, French suspense master, who died 12 September this year, aged 80.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
RIP Arthur Penn, 1922-2010
I haven't mentioned the passing of another favourite director, Claude Chabrol, French suspense master, who died 12 September this year, aged 80.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments
(
Atom
)
2 comments :
Night Moves is a neglected classic.
Absolutely. It fits in well with other Hackman's other classics of that decade such as The Conversation, The French Connection and Prime Cut, but is rarely mentioned. I always thought he looked too young and awkward in Bonnie and Clyde – ageing can do a lot for an actor. The 1970s was when Hackman came into his own. Night Moves is also notable for a young Melanie Griffith and James Woods (they would appear together again in Larry Clark's Another Day in Paradise, some twenty-odd years later). Griffith started off as she meant to go on – by showing her breasts, which I believe she's done in almost every film she's been in since.
Night Moves reminds me of another great L.A.-by-the-beach-in-the-1970s-film-noir – Altman's The Long Goodbye.
Post a Comment