4K UHD, Blu-ray Release: Night Moves (1975)

4K UHD, Blu-ray Release Date: March 25, 2025
Price: 4K UHD/Blu-ray $34.99, Blu-ray $27.99
Studio: Criterion


Arthur Penn’s (Bonnie and Clyde) haunting 1975 neo-noir Night Moves reimagines the hard-boiled detective film for the disillusioned, paranoid 1970s.

Gene Hackman is Harry Moseby in Night Moves.

In one of his greatest performances, Gene Hackman (Mississippi Burning) oozes world-weary cynicism as a private investigator whose search for an actress’s missing daughter (Melanie Griffith, Something Wild) leads him from the Hollywood Hills to the Florida Keys, where he is pulled into a sordid family drama and a sinister conspiracy he can hardly grasp.

Bolstered by Alan Sharp’s genre-scrambling script and Dede Allen’s elliptical editing, the daringly labyrinthine Night Moves is a defining work of post-Watergate cinema—a silent scream of existential dread and moral decay whose legend has only grown with time.

This Criterion edition contains the following features:

  • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • New audio commentary by Matthew Asprey Gear, author of Moseby Confidential
  • New audio interview with actor Jennifer Warren
  • Interview with director Arthur Penn from a 1975 episode of Cinema Showcase 
  • Interview with Penn from the 1995 documentary Arthur Penn: A Love Affair with Film
  • The Day of the Director, a behind-the-scenes featurette
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Harris
Buy or Rent Night Moves (1975)

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.