The parallax view / Paramount Pictures presents ; an Alan J. Pakula production ; screenplay, David Giler, Lorenzo Semple, Jr. ; producer and director, Alan J. Pakula.
Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels, Walter McGinn, Hume Cronyn, Kelly Thordsen, Chuck Waters, Earl Hindman. Titles from screen credits. Originally released as a motion picture in 1974. Based on the novel by Loren Singer. Wide screen (2.39:1 aspect ratio). Special features: new introduction by filmmaker Alex Cox; interviews with director from 1974 and 1995; new program on cinematographer Gordon Willis featuring an interview with Willis from 2004; new interview with Jon Boorstin, assistant to Pakula; plus an essay by critic Nathan Heller and a 1974 interview with Pakula.
Summary:
"Perhaps no director tapped into the sense of dread and mistrust that pervaded the 1970s more effectively than Alan J. Pakula, who, in the second installment of his celebrated Paranoia Trilogy, offers a chilling vision of America in the wake of the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, Jr., with the shock of Watergate near at hand. Three years after the murder of a leading senator atop Seattle's Space Needle, reporter Joseph Frady (Warren Beatty) begins digging into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the killing--and stumbles into a labyrinthine conspiracy far more sinister than he could have imagined. The Parallax View's coolly stylized, shadow-etched compositions by acclaimed cinematographer Gordon Willis give visual expression to a mood that begins as an anxious whisper and ends as a scream into the void"--Container
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