Poll

Your Favorite Arthur Penn Film Is...

The Left Handed Gun
0 (0%)
The Miracle Worker
4 (13.3%)
Mickey One
1 (3.3%)
The Chase
1 (3.3%)
Bonnie and Clyde
15 (50%)
Alice's Restaurant
0 (0%)
Little Big Man
4 (13.3%)
Night Moves
1 (3.3%)
The Missouri Breaks
0 (0%)
Four Friends
0 (0%)
Target
0 (0%)
Dead of Winter
0 (0%)
Penn & Teller Get Killed
0 (0%)
haven't seen any
3 (10%)
don't like any
1 (3.3%)
other
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 30

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Arthur Penn
« Reply #10 on: October 19, 2014, 03:43:28 PM »
1. Night Moves (1975)

Bonnie & Clyde (1967)

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Arthur Penn
« Reply #11 on: October 23, 2014, 11:39:07 AM »
Night Moves (1975)

The mystery takes center stage, and yet it seems to exist outside the film, or at its edges, nipping away at the consciousness of Hackman's character. All the pieces are in place, and he thinks he's solved it, but he's looking at the wrong puzzle. A morose noir, brimming with sadness and disillusion, distracting us with a world we think we understand, while its true inner workings go unnoticed. "I didn't solve anything. I just fell in on top of it."

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Arthur Penn
« Reply #12 on: October 23, 2014, 12:44:45 PM »
The mystery is the hook, but I think Penn does everything he can to keep it off center stage.

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Penn, Arthur
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2015, 01:06:39 AM »
I think he is the only director whose films land on every color level of quality.

1. Bonnie & Clyde
2. Little Big Man
3. The Chase
4. The Miracle Worker

5. The Left Handed Gun
6. Night Moves
7. Dead of Winter
8. Target

9. The Missouri Breaks
10. Alice's Restaurant
11. Mickey One

12. Penn & Teller Get Killed
« Last Edit: January 06, 2018, 12:18:31 AM by 1SO »

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Arthur Penn
« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2015, 02:21:56 AM »
Do you consider The Train more of a Penn film than a Frankenheimer film?

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Arthur Penn
« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2015, 08:51:47 AM »
I don't. It just came up when I pulled up his filmography for rankings and I didn't check it even though I thought it was Frankenheimer.
Corrected my list.

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Arthur Penn
« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2015, 11:36:46 AM »
The bigger problem was that it was below Little Big Man! :)

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Arthur Penn
« Reply #17 on: March 07, 2015, 02:00:01 PM »
The Miracle Worker 4/5
Alice's Restaurant 3/5


Still need to see Bonnie and Clyde and Little Big Man
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Re: Penn, Arthur
« Reply #18 on: March 30, 2016, 08:56:36 AM »
1. Bonnie and Clyde (3)
"Time is the speed at which the past decays."

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Re: Penn, Arthur
« Reply #19 on: January 04, 2018, 11:32:18 PM »

The Chase (1966)
"If he comes back and you need any deputies, every man here will be glad to help you."
"The state of Texas says any of you can own a gun and most of you got two, but deputies you ain't."


Watching mother! is a rare film experience. Love it... Hate it... the film is alive. It's a hot, vibrant mess that may be genius or may be terrible and it all depends on when you ask me. The further I get from mother! the more I'm confident it's a film to celebrate, though I remember being more uneasy and critical while watching.

The Chase gave me the same feeling.

The movie Arthur Penn made just before Bonnie and Clyde is nothing like I expected and quite unlike most other films in existence. It's a character ensemble about an escaped convict (Robert Redford) and the small town that believes he's headed their way. Over the next 24-hours, the small southern town will tear itself apart over this event. With unapologetic and rapidly increasing melodrama, the film exposes hatred in all levels of social and economic class, save for the sheriff (Marlon Brando), the one person who wants to capture Redford alive. (Meanwhile, everyone assumes he's in one pocket or another.)

It would be impossible to accurately describe the wild directions this film goes in. I just have to say it does a number of things I normally hate, many theatrical scenes that don't make logical sense but feel right. It's a great looking, relentlessly cynical film, with an over-qualified cast that includes Angie Dickinson, Jane Fonda, E.G. Marshall, Miriam Hopkins and Robert Duvall. Brando is in peak form. At times it seems like a collection of great moments looking for a cohesive story, but as the dramatic undertow pulled me deeper towards the conclusion, I came to really respect the film's originality, which I think is ultimately very rewarding.
RATING: * * * - Very Good

 

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