Has anyone seen the Parallax View (1974 film with Warren Beatty)

[Matt Wittman]

My library has a copy so soon I will watch it... I would like to see what people here have to say about it.

[jojopuppyfish]

Great Film.
Alan J Pakula and Gordon Willis, the director and Cinemontographer were gold in the 70s. Klute, All the PResidents Men, and The Parallax View are all Classics and amazing, IMO.
One debit of the film is the Nievity of the main character.
Warren Beaty is another one who was in many great films.

[RobertKaneda]

Very interesting film that draws from all of the 60s assassination/paranoia lore. It's a very eerie film. It may leave you a bit unsettled. But it's well made and Beatty does a good job of playing an inquisitive sort who thinks he knows what he's getting into but . . . .

[Felix Martinez]

Great montage scene (http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s76parallax.html)!

[JohnBeas]

I also like the film a lot. It would make a great double-feature with "Three Days Of The Condor".

[jv66]

Yes i have the dvd and it is a really good film. Seems they were churning out alot of these good quality films in the 70's eh?

[Matt Wittman]

Yes i have the dvd and it is a really good film. Seems they were churning out alot of these good quality films in the 70's eh?

:agree: My favorite decade for films.

[wayneklein]

One of my favorite paranoid thrillers from the decade that produced the best paranoid thrillers.

[jsayers]

I also like the film a lot. It would make a great double-feature with "Three Days Of The Condor".

I was just about to post this. Two major reasons I love 70's films so much!

Watch for Bill McKinney of "Deliverance" fame playing a waiter/hitman. Speaking of hitmen, Max Von Sydow steals every scene he's in in "Three Days Of The Condor"!

[jsayers]

See also:
Marathon Man
The Odessa File
Charley Varrick

[Matt Wittman]

I just watched it, great film.

[zappa]

see also "three days of the condor" and "the conversation"!!!

[Dudley Morris]

The film requires that "willing suspension of disbelief" IMHO, and it is kind of dated in some ways (that "montage" sequence struck me as something put in to appeal to "hip" audiences attuned to '60s art films), but it's certainly worth a viewing.

[Cheepnik]

Watching Parallax, you can really see how Alan Pakula was just the right guy to helm All the President's Men two years later. The two movies almost tell the same story, one fictional and one non.

[jjhunsecker]

An excellent film of it's time.
You know if they made something like this today, it would have a more upbeat, crowd pleasing ending

[BradF]

Not a bad complement to John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate, from the early 60s.

[Chip Stylus]

One of my favorite paranoid thrillers from the decade that produced the best paranoid thrillers.

ditto, that one and "The Conversation" w/ Gene Hackman.