{"id":17311,"date":"2025-03-01T20:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T01:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17311"},"modified":"2025-03-01T09:07:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T14:07:47","slug":"night-moves-1975-arthur-penn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17311","title":{"rendered":"Night Moves (1975, Arthur Penn)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watched this in mid-Feb, not intending it as a Gene Hackman memorial screening, but here we are.  Great detective plot, Gene a two-bit private eye who finds the missing girl a half hour into the movie then sticks around as new smuggling\/murder plots continue to unfold, until the girl (Melanie Griffith a decade pre-<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15577\">Body Double<\/a><\/em>) is dead, movie stunt coordinator Ed Binns (<em>Sixth Angry Man<\/em>) is dead after two crashes and trying to murder Gene, giggling stuntman Marv dead underwater, mechanic James Woods floating in the dolphin pool, stepdad John Crawford (DEI-enforcing mayor of <em>The Enforcer<\/em>) guilty possibly dead, and tough Florida girl Jennifer Warren, whom Gene and I were both really getting to like, head smashed by a plane.  Side plot of Gene discovering his own wife&#8217;s affair (via an Eric Rohmer movie date) then trying to repair his marriage, which doesn&#8217;t go too well, as he keeps returning to this case.  <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/superpulse\/film\/night-moves\/\">Matt Singer<\/a> gets it, and Filipe points out that &#8220;everything plot related happens offscreen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/nightmoves1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/nightmoves2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/nightmoves3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watched this in mid-Feb, not intending it as a Gene Hackman memorial screening, but here we are. Great detective plot, Gene a two-bit private eye who finds the missing girl a half hour into the movie then sticks around as new smuggling\/murder plots continue to unfold, until the girl (Melanie Griffith a decade pre-Body Double) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,3376,2081,2330,2795,1212,1889],"class_list":["post-17311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-arthur-penn","tag-car-crash","tag-florida","tag-gene-hackman","tag-memorial-screening","tag-plane-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17348,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17311\/revisions\/17348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}