The Hired Hand (1971)

From the beautiful first five minutes of shimmering water, silhouetted figures, dissolving and overlapping images, all made poetic by Bruce Langhorne’s score, I was very into Peter Fonda’s The Hired Hand (1971). Thankfully, everything after that made good on that opening’s promise. After the huge success of Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper went to make the […]

Night Moves (1975)

Night Moves (1975) is an underrated example of the neo-noir genre of the era. Alongside Chinatown and The Long Goodbye, these films paid tribute to 1940s noir while investing everything with a post-Watergate feeling of disappointment; in Night Moves, for example, there’s a scene where characters talk about where they were when JFK was killed. […]