#1064: PAKULA, Alan J.: The Parallax View (1974)
PAKULA, Alan J. (United States)
The Booklet
Twenty-eight page booklet featuring an essay by critic Nathan Heller and a 1974 interview with Pakula.
Commentary
None.
Introduction
By filmmaker Alex Cox.
Interviews
With director Pakula from 1974 and 1995.
Program
On DP Gordon Willis featuring an interview with him from 2004.
Interview
With Jon Boorstin, assistant to Pakula on The Parallax View.
Extras Rating (0-40):
The Parallax View [1974]
Spine #1064
Blu-ray
Blu-ray
Perhaps no director tapped into the pervasive sense of dread and mistrust that defined 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. and about to be shocked by Watergate. Three years after witnessing 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.
102 minutes
Color
Color
Monaural
2:39:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2021
Director/Writers
Screenplay by David Giler and Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Alan J. Pakula was 46 when he directed The Parallax View.
Other Pakula films in the Collection:
#987: Klute (1971)
The Film
Other Pakula films in the Collection:
#987: Klute (1971)
The Film
A
Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twenty-eight page booklet featuring an essay by critic Nathan Heller and a 1974 interview with Pakula.
Commentary
None.
Introduction
By filmmaker Alex Cox.
Interviews
With director Pakula from 1974 and 1995.
Program
On DP Gordon Willis featuring an interview with him from 2004.
Interview
With Jon Boorstin, assistant to Pakula on The Parallax View.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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