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. Your contribution matters. Starring Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels, Walter McGinn, Hume Cronyn, Kelly Thordsen, Earl Hindman">

The Parallax View

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. Your contribution matters.CrimePT1H42M152024-08-10
Warren Beatty
Paula Prentiss
William Daniels
Walter McGinn
Hume Cronyn
Kelly Thordsen
Earl Hindman
Alan J. Pakula
Alan J. Pakula
The Parallax View"The Parallax View"

Showtimes

August 10, 6:20 pm

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