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Tag Archives: 1975
Night Moves (1975)
“I think people are shitty and you’re okay” A wonderfully grizzled PI dirge from the heart of the 70s, Night Moves is my favourite Arthur Penn I’ve seen so far. It’s a movie in which Gene Hackman seems to embody every damn … Continue reading
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Tagged 1975, Arthur Penn, Gene Hackman, Harris Yulin, James Woods, Jennifer Warren, Melanie Griffith, Susan Clark
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The Fortune (1975)
Nichols’ flair for busy anamorphic master shots is well suited to screwball, letting his actors interact in prolonged stretches and allowing the physical gags to unfold naturally in tandem with the camera, but ultimately The Fortune just doesn’t work. Both Beatty and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1975, Jack Nicholson, Mike Nichols, Stockard Channing, Warren Beatty
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The Passenger (1975)
A purgatorial dirge for a character who is not dead, but choses to be regarded as such. The last major Antonioni I had to check off and a remarkably spare contemplation on life’s dead ends. Feels like a desolate funeral … Continue reading
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Tagged 1975, Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Michelangelo Antonioni
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"This Film Should Be Played Loud" 