TITLE...........: Night Moves (1975)
STARS...........: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Melanie Griffith, James Woods
DIRECTOR........: Arthur Penn
WRITERS.........: Alan Sharp
GENRE...........: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
METACRITIC......: 82/71
TOMATOMETER.....: 86/72
IMDB SCORE......: 7.1
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073453
RUNTIME.........: 1h 39mn
SIZE............: 8.66 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 12000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1920x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.78:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: English FLAC 1.0 [Criterion]
AUDIO2..........: Commentary  by author Matthew Asprey Gear 
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Warner Archive Blu-ray, Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2025-04-03
CHECKSUM........: B88EB5DCDE86DC0E49BBC57D814E6F2E


Arthur Penn’s haunting neonoir reimagines the hard-boiled detective film for the disillusioned, paranoid 1970s. In one of his greatest performances, Gene Hackman oozes world-weary cynicism as a private investigator whose search for an actress’s missing daughter (Melanie Griffith) leads him from the Hollywood Hills to the Florida Keys, where he is pulled into a sordid family drama and a sinister conspiracy he can hardly grasp. Bolstered by Alan Sharp’s genre-scrambling script and Dede Allen’s elliptical editing, the daringly labyrinthine Night Moves is a defining work of post-Watergate cinema—a silent scream of existential dread and moral decay whose legend has only grown with time.


Criterion Extras

• Commentary  by author Matthew Asprey Gear
• Arthur Penn, 1975
• Arthur Penn, 1995
• Jennifer Warren
• The Day of the Director
• Trailer