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Post by wallsofjericho on Jan 29, 2022 22:32:10 GMT
Still missed on the screen. They have actually been screening The Conversation this week and Kenneth Turan and Michael Phillips have reviewed the movie again. His Night Moves performance is a masterclass as well. What's so great about Hackman in Night Moves - and you can only really gain this on re-watches - is just how much Harry Moseby is placed into repeatable situations that he just "misses" and that he messes up - someone dies, or is hurt, or is connected to someone they shouldn't be etc. - through no fault of his own but that he couldn't actually have prevented either as the movie plays out. Night Moves is like The Long Goodbye where if you've only seen it once - I don't think you can pull everything out of it that is special. There's almost not a single moment in that film where Harry is not lied to, or misled or somebody always leaves out a crucial piece of info in what they tell him ........ That's really tough to play - and not want to appear one step behind - since the audience THINKS they're ahead of Harry - but of course we are not - it's unlike any private eye in the genre actually. Demands rewatches definitely....... It's brilliant. I love how he goes into a situation (like confronting his wife's lover) with no plan of what he's going to do but feels like he has to do it. The range showed in 74 (The Conversation and Young Frankenstein) and 75 (Night Moves, French Connection II and his Gary Cooper type performance in Bite the Bullet) would make any actor envious. Bradley Cooper is having somewhat of a similar trajectory to his 74 (not in terms of quality) but by playing a dark brooding role in Nightmare Alley along with a comedic cameo role in Licorice Pizza.
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Post by mrimpossible on Jan 30, 2022 21:28:07 GMT
Happy Birthday Gene!
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jan 30, 2022 21:30:36 GMT
Night Moves leaves HBOMax after tomorrow, fyi.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jan 30, 2022 21:56:35 GMT
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Post by wonky on May 11, 2022 14:52:50 GMT
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Post by sirchuck23 on May 11, 2022 15:25:59 GMT
Gene!
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jan 30, 2023 10:41:00 GMT
Happy 93rd birthday!
Top 10 performances:
The Conversation Unforgiven French Connection II Scarecrow The French Connection I Never Sang For My Father Night Moves The Royal Tenenbaums Mississippi Burning Prime Cut
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Post by wallsofjericho on Jan 30, 2024 8:52:20 GMT
Happy 94th Birthday Still missed on the big screen.
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Post by pupdurcs on Jan 30, 2024 9:01:16 GMT
Happy 94th birthday to one of the greatest screen actors ever to do it
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 30, 2024 10:02:52 GMT
I say this all the time if you've only see Night Moves (1975) once then you have never seen it - it must be watched at least twice and the viewing exprience is as complex as the mystery at the center of the film......I mean not just that it has been discussed deeply on MAR iirc but a lot of people have spilled fascinating words about this movie and I still think of it all the time ......... Happy Birthday - to a no-brainer, obvious top 10 American film actor
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Post by sirchuck23 on Jan 30, 2024 15:42:13 GMT
Happy Birthday to one of the GOATs!! Sad we never got to see him in another film after Welcome to Mooseport, but the Hack Man is enjoying retirement. Cheers!
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Post by stephen on Jan 30, 2024 15:52:59 GMT
Long live the King of the '70s.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 30, 2024 17:46:20 GMT
legend has it, Harry Caul is still playing saxophone to this day (and still hasn't checked it for bugs)happy 94th to one of the greats
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Jan 30, 2024 21:10:30 GMT
Happy birthday to one of the greats. His performances in The Royal Tenebaums and Unforgiven are perfection.
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Post by quetee on Jan 30, 2024 23:57:58 GMT
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Post by JangoB on Mar 31, 2024 15:51:17 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 31, 2024 17:33:48 GMT
Hackman sighting! God bless him There's an old quote about why you need to run the Football in the NFL - because when you pass the football there's really only 3 things that can happen .......and 2 of those are bad.........well in real life - the older you get without coffee - well 2 things will happen...........and both of them are bad too........
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 10, 2024 23:17:45 GMT
Gene Hackman - 6th Greatest US actor EVER after Brando, DePac, Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman - ok maybe 5th ahead of Hoffman (arguable!).....is trending among morons of Twitter for a photo MAR looked at days ago
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