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Arthur Penn’s Night Moves

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Robert Altman, Don't Look Now, Nicolas Roeg, Wes Anderson, Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn, Night Moves, Roger Ebert, The Long Goodbye, Point Blank, Days of Heaven, Annie Hall, John Boorman, Gene Hackman, Éric Rohmer, My Night at Maud's, Melanie Griffith, The Conversation, William Wyler, Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, The New Hollywood, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ross Macdonald, Francis Ford Coppola on September 30, 2010 | 10 Comments »

Well, Arthur Penn died. He was of course a great director. And of course everyone will be talking about how great Bonnie and Clyde (1967) is—and it is great. It’s one of the most important of American films; along with John Boorman’s Point Blank (1967), it essentially kick-started 1970s cinema, and that decade’s auteur-driven New [...]

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Two-Lane Blacktop

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arlo Guthrie, Barbara Loden, Chuck Berry, Dennis Wilson, Easy Rider, existentialism, François Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman, Jack Nicholson, James Taylor, L'avventura, Laurie Bird, Michelangelo Antonioni, Monte Hellman, Normal Theater, Persona, Pickpocket, Point Blank, Red Desert, regionalism, Robert Bresson, Roger Corman, Roger Ebert, Rudy Wurlitzer, Sam Peckinpah, The 400 Blows, The Doors, The Wild Bunch, Two-Lane Blacktop, Vanishing Point, Wanda, Warren Oates on July 22, 2010 | 15 Comments »

After college, a friend and I went on a tear, spending our weekends watching everything we could find by Godard, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Kurosawa, others. My friend’s father, a former cinephile who’d seen many of these movies during their initial US releases, occasionally poked his head into the living room, watching a few minutes here and [...]

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