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“People are gonna start thinking they have to,” Josh (Jesse Eisenberg) says to his extremist collaborators, Dena (Dakota Fanning) and Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard), framing the destruction they are planning as a public-service announcement-a wakeup call to those who’ve been “killing all the salmon just so you can run your fucking iPod every second of your life.” The grandstanding is a rare moment of self-righteous zeal from the normally taciturn organic farmer, and in the film as a whole Night Moves, as with its predecessors, emphasizes process over easy polemics. (The inverse is true in Reichardt’s previous movie, Meek’s Cutoff, from 2010: Set in 1845, this minimalist western about the folly of Manifest Destiny doubles as a cogent commentary on the imperialist overreach and failed leadership of the Bush II administration.) Reichardt’s films smartly anatomize the snags in the social fabric without trumpeting a position. Like many of the director’s films, Night Moves, which tracks a trio of eco-terrorists who detonate a hydraulic dam, is firmly rooted in the present, though the ideals-and abandoned hopes-of the past are still being sifted through. Yet never has it loomed quite as solemnly as in her latest, Night Moves, co-scripted with her regular collaborator Jon Raymond.

THE OREGON LANDSCAPE, whether paradisiacal or punishing, has featured prominently in all of Kelly Reichardt’s four features, beginning with her 2006 breakthrough, Old Joy. The film is available on DVD.Kelly Reichardt, Night Moves, 2013, color, sound, 112 minutes.

Night Moves is not a typical thriller, but it is a rewarding viewing experience, and it couldn’t have been made in a more appropriate decade than The film is the second of three collaborations betweenĭirector Penn & star Hackman, the other two being 1967’s Bonnie & Clyde and 1985’s Target. & cinematographer Bruce Surtees moody color palette all contribute Arthur Penn’s solidĭirection, Alan Sharp’s well-honed script The amazing Jennifer Warren, who is excellent as Paula. Harris Yulin, John Crawford, Edward Binns, a young James Woods as Quentin, and There’s a fine supporting cast of familiar faces, including Hackman is superb in the role, subtly conveying Harry’s anguish He hasn’t figured out the truth of the case, or Through things & people to solve the mystery. Of the typical film noir hero, as he isn’t the tough guy who punches his way Lies are uncovered, secrets are revealed, and in classic film noir style,Īlmost bleak movie, with characters like Harry & Paula stuck in places theyĭon’t want to be, but powerless to change. Who’s been trying to salvage his relationship with Ellen, is drawn back into theĬase. That’s the springboard for what will become the movie’s final third. Short time later, he hears Delly has been killed in an accident while filming a stunt on a movie set.

A visibly upsetĭelly asks Harry to take her home. Marks the spot with a buoy & the trio returns to shore.

& finds the wreckage of a small plane, with the pilot’s body inside. While on a boat ride with Harry & Paula, Delly goes swimming Meanwhile, he forms a bond & shares an attraction with Paula, a woman who Harry stays overnight, and tries to convince Delly to return. Only interested in her trust fund, which Arlene will inherit if anything Stepfather Tom, but Delly doesn’t want to go back.