DVD
The parallax view
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss, Walter McGinn.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2021]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (102 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Audience
MPAA rating: R.
Summary
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 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.
Notes
Based upon a novel by Loren Singer.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1974.
Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer ; new introduction by filmmaker Alex Cox ; interviews with director Alan J. Pakula from 1974 and 1995 ; new program on cinematographer Gordon Willis featuring an interview with him from 2004 ; new interview with Jon Boorstin, assistant to Pakula.