Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Arthur Penn

Arthur Penn, director of Bonnie & Clyde, Mickey One as well as the massively underrated and phenomenal Gene Hackman vehicle Night Moves, died yesterday of congestive heart failure.

You have no idea how much I love Night Moves, and Penn's death only serves to further illuminate just how far American cinema has fallen since the golden age of the seventies.
Posted by at 1:59 PM

1 comments:

  1. Absolutely. As great as Bonnie and Clyde is, Night Moves is Penn's true masterpiece. One of the darkest and most brilliant films of the decade. I'd like to think his death will encourage people to re-evaluate this lost masterpiece and finally give it the acclaim it deserves.

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