I don’t remember a whole lot about Arthur Penn’s noirish 1975 thriller Night Moves, other than when I saw it on TV years ago in the 80s, the station had somehow screwed up adjusting the aspect ratio – hence the boom mic was flapping about in shot for about half the scenes. Talk about distracting!…
The Conversation
“He’d kill US if he had the chance….” This I remember was the pivotal line in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 paranoid procedural thriller The Conversation. Inspired by Antonioni’s earlier arthouse thriller Blowup, Coppola cast Gene Hackman as a lonely, obsessive bugging expert, whose recordings indicate a potential murder. But it’s when he plays the tape…
Eureka / Bad Timing
These are two posters for movies by the late English auteur Nicolas Roeg. Roeg is probably best known for Don’t Look Now, his nightmarish loose adaptation of a Daphne de Maurier story and The Man Who Fell To Earth, which memorably cast David Bowie as an alien. Eureka and Bad Timing both came after these,…