{"id":3913,"date":"2010-09-24T18:03:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T23:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2010-09-24T18:07:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T23:07:45","slug":"night-of-the-hunter-river-sequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/night-of-the-hunter-river-sequence\/","title":{"rendered":"Night of the Hunter River Sequence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"centered\"><object width=\"550\" height=\"442\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/g7B7A_dawI8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"firstletter\">I<\/span> just posted a little article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rowthree.com\/2010\/09\/24\/now-playing-at-the-row-three-rep-mesmerizingly-weird-kid-films\/\">on Row Three<\/a> with a triple feature of mesmerizingly weird films featuring children, with one of the films being the wonderful, uncategorizable <em>The Night of the Hunter<\/em>. I won&#8217;t crosspost it here because it&#8217;s closely tied to a rep cinema programming series of posts we have there, but I figured I&#8217;d go ahead and share what I think is the most memorable sequence from the film (out of a BUNCH of memorable sequences) &#8211; the meditative and nearly surreal river trip the kids take toward the end of the film. It&#8217;s not really a spoiler to watch this section if you haven&#8217;t seen it, and I think it&#8217;s beautiful even out of context. But I have a thing for moody cinematography and kids singing haunting songs.<\/p>\n<p>This was the moment I fell in love with the film the first time I saw it; it&#8217;s sort of a turn, too, as the film moves from being a heightened melodrama\/horror\/film noir film into something more along the lines of a fable or morality play, though like I said, it&#8217;s really hard to categorize. Watching it a second time brings out more of this fable-like quality in the first half as well, once you know to look for it. <em>The Night of the Hunter<\/em> comes out in a Criterion edition (both DVD and blu-ray) in November. You can bet I&#8217;ll be picking it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just posted a little article on Row Three with a triple feature of mesmerizingly weird films featuring children, with one of the films being the wonderful, uncategorizable The Night of the Hunter. I won&#8217;t crosspost it here because it&#8217;s closely tied to a rep cinema programming series of posts we have there, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[1995,383],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Night-of-the-Hunter.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23830,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/three-reasons-the-night-of-the-hunter\/","url_meta":{"origin":3913,"position":0},"title":"Three Reasons: The Night of the Hunter","author":"Jandy","date":"June 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Aha! A Criterion Three Reasons video for a film I don't have to lust after - because I already bought it. And you should to. 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I was unprepared\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;2016 Movie Challenge&quot;","block_context":{"text":"2016 Movie Challenge","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/2016-movie-challenge\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tf-moonrise-feat.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":36915,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/adventures-on-criterion-joan-bennett\/","url_meta":{"origin":3913,"position":3},"title":"Adventures on Criterion: Joan Bennett","author":"Jandy","date":"January 28, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"January's \"star of the month\" on Criterion is Joan Bennett, and I've spent the month catching up with all the films in the collection I hadn't already seen, which was a substantial chunk! I like Bennett, but somehow even though I KNOW it, I always manage to forget that the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Adventures on Criterion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Adventures on Criterion","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/adventures-on-criterion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Criterion-Channel-Joan-Bennet.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Criterion-Channel-Joan-Bennet.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Criterion-Channel-Joan-Bennet.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Criterion-Channel-Joan-Bennet.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":73,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/july-readingwatching-recap\/","url_meta":{"origin":3913,"position":4},"title":"July Reading\/Watching Recap","author":"Jandy","date":"August 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Click through for reactions for Pirates of the Caribbean 2, The Gold Rush, Night of the Hunter, Shopgirl, A Scanner Darkly, Transamerica, and Hitchcock's Films, among others. click for more Movies Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest I quite enjoyed it. It's always interesting to me to compare\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books and Reading&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books and Reading","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27205,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/scorecard-august-2011\/","url_meta":{"origin":3913,"position":5},"title":"Scorecard: August 2011","author":"Jandy","date":"September 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"A long time ago I used to do a monthly round-up of films I saw during the month. I stopped doing it when I started writing for Row Three, but I don't really have time to write up full reviews for everything over there. 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