Of the three films that make up director Alan J. Pakula's "paranoid trilogy" (KLUTE, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, and THE PARALLAX VIEW), the latter most strongly conveys the paranoid atmosphere of the 1960s and '70s. A stylish suspense-thriller, THE PARALLAX VIEW mirrors the political distrust Americans began to feel during the period following the Kennedy assassination and the Vietnam War, culminating in the Watergate conspiracy. The film stars Warren Beatty as investigative journalist Joe Frady, whose former girlfriend and colleague, Lee Carter (Paula Prentiss), witnesses the assassination of a U.S. senator at the Seattle Space Needle. A government report declares it the work of a lone gunman, but when eyewitnesses begin showing up dead, Carter is convinced that a wider conspiracy is at work. Probing deeper, Frady uncovers the operations of the Parallax Corporation, which recruits social misfits and uses mind control techniques to turn them into assassins. In keeping with classic 1970s film, the story is a suspenseful, well-acted thriller with a surprise ending that will resound with the viewer long after the credits start rolling.
Theatrical release: June 14, 1974
Shot on location in and around San Francisco, Malibu, and Washington state.
The PARALLAX VIEW was a box office success and helped establish director Alan J. Pakula as a master of the conspiracy drama.
The film is an adaptation of the novel by Loren Singer.
Excerpt: "A martini is like a woman's breast. One is not enough and three is too many."--(Waitress)
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - English
Dolby Digital Mono - French
Additional Release Material:
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
Director of Photography
Gordon Willis: Cinematographer famous for use of B&W
Story
Loren Singer: Novelist\"Parallax View"
Art Director
George Jenkins: Production Designer
Review 1:
"...A deeply paranoid film. This is its strength as a disturbing entertainment..."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.54-5 12/01/1974
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