![]() This time, it’s the external world-the larger political landscape of contemporary America and specifically its marginalized militant left-that feels inchoate. But Reichardt brings us close to his tortured thought processes, and via this proximity Night Moves ultimately arrives at something like an intimate space. Like her other films, Night Moves stays on the outside of its opaque characters protagonist Josh, a pensive, mentally and geographically unmoored environmental activist played by Jesse Eisenberg, is hardly knowable (in fact, he seems to recede from our view the more we spend time with him). The film initially seems to cast a wide net, commenting on contemporary mores, but it ultimately settles for being narrower, a portrait of extreme psychosis. Night Moves is in many ways different, grafting a social critique onto a suspense narrative, rather than the other way around. Think of the weekend sojourn of two aging buddies in Old Joy, their lives diverging in irreconcilable ways, producing simmering resentments the new-Depression street-survival narrative of Wendy and Lucy the grim “westward ho!” caravanning in the period drama Meek’s Cutoff. Henson in a “Get Out of Denver” video or Randall Park and Sofía Vergara one for “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man.” They’d be as wonderfully bizarre as this “Night Moves” video.Each of Kelly Reichardt’s films thus far has proven her adeptness at wringing tension out of unexpected situations. ![]() Maybe he can cast Jim Parsons and Taraji P. ![]() He can even promote with them “Night Moves”-style videos. ![]() Let’s hope by then there’s some movement on getting the rest of his catalog back into print. When Seger hits the road in late August for his first US tour in two years, “Night Moves” will almost certainly come at a key moment in the encore section. It’s a wonder they didn’t find roles for Wayne Knight, Calista Flockhart, Jenna Elfman and Dave Coulier. If the video wasn’t packed full of enough 1990s TV icons, Johnny Galecki from Roseanne (and later The Big Bang Theory) is also in it. Got all that? It filmed months before Matt LeBlanc got cast as Joey Tribbiani on Friends, so he was willing to take a role as the love interest to Daphne Zuniga, then in the middle of her run on Melrose Place. So, it features 1994 Bob Seger lip-syncing to 1976 Bob Seger singing about 1962 Bob Seger. He didn’t get around to making a video for “Night Moves” until 1994 when he released his first greatest hits package. He Spent a Decade Trying to Prove His Parents Killed His Teen Sister The song takes place during his teenage years in 1962, but he wrote it in 1976 when he was entering his thirties and beginning to look back nostalgically at a time when he was trying to make “front page drive-in news” by hooking up with a “black-haired beauty with big dark eyes” in the back of his 1960 Chevy. One song you can definitely hear is “Night Moves.” The title track to his breakthrough LP has been a mainstay on classic rock radio for decades, and you can check out the official video right here, though it requires a great deal of context. They finally came to their senses last week, though a very sizable chunk of his work remains unavailable. It was like his team felt if they just held out long enough this whole Internet fad would go away and people would go back to shelling out 20 bucks whenever they wanted to hear an album. Very few albums were on iTunes and absolutely nothing was on the streaming services, meaning you had to buy physical CDs to get the famous albums or resort to expensive collectible vinyl for his early catalog, which has been out of print for decades. Up until last week, hearing most of Bob Seger‘s catalog without committing some sort of minor copyright violation was no easy task.
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