❀ night moves [ gene hackman, arthur penn, jailbait melanie griffith - 1975 ]

Night Moves is on Criterion this month. I had never seen it. Still sorting through it, but holy crap what a great movie. Original post otm.

Alan Sharp was an unbelievably talented screenwriter. He also authored Ulzana’s Raid for Robert Aldrich in 1972, which is one of the great revisionist westerns. I certainly like it more than The Hired Hand and The Missouri Breaks (although it’s probably neck and neck with China 9, Liberty 37)

Surely the significance of the ending is that Harry's wife was involved in the smuggling ring somehow?

Great movie, recently rewatched during a bout of insomnia. Night Moves and Cutter’s Way are my comfort movies precisely because of their strange ambiguity. Add payday to the list and you have a solid trilogy of morally murky 70s sadness. Love it.

I think I never such a weirder scene than the one just after they find the plane in the ocean – when they are all drinking and dancing, and Hackman's look is just of wtf is going on? Love it

ugh 'never seen such a weirder scene'

also want to see this after reading more about the movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Parsons