Marking its 50th Anniversary this year, The Parallax View is Alan J. Pakula’s ominous vision of America — captured in the wake of the assassination of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King and just before the scandal of Watergate is about to break.
Conspiracy and creeping paranoia seeps through every frame — even the architecture and the soundtrack communicate dissonance and unease. Made two years before Pakula’s definitive Watergate film All the President’s Men, Warren Beatty plays a reporter who becomes caught up in the fall out from seeing a Presidential candidate assassination in a shockingly dramatic opening sequence.
Unlike the fearlessly heroic journalists Woodward and Bernstein, as played by Redford and Hoffman, Beatty’s reporter is drawn deeper into the corporate and political conspiracy enveloping him. It leads to an ending that does not result in exposure, but rather echoes Chinatown’s devastating conclusion.
Cinematographer Gordon Willis’ coolly stylized compositions give visual expression to a mood of the pervasive sense of dread and mistrust that defined the 1970s.
Screening as part of Out of Their Depth: Corruption, Scandal and Lies in the New Hollywood.
------
YEAR OF CELEBRATION
2024 marks 85 years since our cinema (originally the Cosmo) was built, 50 years since GFT was founded and the 20th edition of Glasgow Film Festival.
Whilst our box office and bar sales only cover around 50% of our annual costs and help keep the film reels rolling, we rely on donations and fundraising to run our education and community activities. We need your help!
Celebrate 50 years of GFT by donating £50 at checkout. A £50 donation also secures your seat at our special January screening. Find out more or donate HERE. Your contribution matters.The Parallax View showing at: August 10, 6:20 pm
The Parallax View
Location: Glasgow Film TheatreBox Office opens 30 minutes before first screening, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow,, G3 6RB9