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The parallax view, Paramount Pictures presents ; an Alan J. Pakula production ; screenplay by David Giler and Lorenzo Semple, Jr. ; produced and directed by Alan J. Pakula

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The parallax view

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Paramount Pictures presents ; an Alan J. Pakula production ; screenplay by David Giler and Lorenzo Semple, Jr. ; produced and directed by Alan J. Pakula

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The Criterion collection, 1064

"Perhaps no director tapped into the sense of dread and mistrust that pervaded 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., with the shock of Watergate near at hand. Three years after 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"--Container

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