Gene Hackman reunited with director Arthur Penn for this airtight 1975 LA neo-noir that finds him playing a scrappy private detective and former NFL player, called Harry Moseby, who's been down on his luck of late when he's hired by a hedonistic former B-movie actress and divorcée to find her runaway daughter, a teenage nymphet, played by Melanie Griffith in her first screen credit. Harry locates her in the Florida Keys, where she's moved in with her ex-stepfather and his…
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A Delicate Balance 1973
I’m somewhat jaundiced by the stimulant of dialogue in this favorite play of mine, even as I see that its transmission to film, at least this film, might have seemed, at least for many, all too cloistered and thereby less effectively dramatic for the utterances and epiphanies that spew forth from characters occluded by a profusion of privilege and booze. One must note that this filmic presentation resides among the 14 canonical plays produced by the experiment of the American…
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Loving 1970
A rather underrated and compelling character study of upper-middle class malaise from 1970, Loving is set in New York and Westport, Connecticut (home to that Cheeveresque suburban commuter set who work in New York and play too: “Let’s have lunch” being code for a midday screw, back when the city was chock-a-block with appealingly respectable hotels suited to that brand of dalliance. George Segal, finely understated here, with a balance of humor and pathos that makes his character — a…
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Renaldo and Clara 1978
A genre-defying spectacle of history, nostalgia, counter-culture and New York in one special moment in time. It's a masterpiece.
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