Film Don't Lie Podcast

EPISODE 36: Night Moves and My Night at Maud's

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EPISODE 36: FILMSTRUCK'S FRIDAY NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE - This week Audy is back after taking a break following the Hollywood award season. This episode, he brings on a new cohost cinephile and film noir lover, Andy Wolverton, to come on and review FilmStruck/Criterion Collection Friday Night's Double Features. The first film is the 1970 Arthur Penn directed Night Moves starring Gene Hackman and the second film the French New Wave Eric Rohmer directed film, My Night at Maud's. Starting off with reviewing Night Moves, the 1975 Neo Noir film where Los Angeles private investigator Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) is hired by a client (Janet Ward) to find her runaway teenage daughter (a young Melanie Griffith in one of her first roles). Moseby tracks the daughter down, only to stumble upon something much more intriguing and sinister. Next, they both go over French New Wave philosophical/romantic exercise of morality My Night of Maud's which is about the rigid principles of a devout Catholic man (Jean Louis Trintignant) a