The Parallax View (Pakula, 1974): Prince Charles Cinema, 6pm
This 35mm presentation (also showing on 30th April) is part of the Pakula Paranoia Trilogy. You can find the full details here.
Time out review:
A thriller about a journalist, alerted to the mysterious deaths of
witnesses to the assassination of a presidential candidate, who embarks
on an investigation that reveals a nebulous conspiracy of gigantic and
all-embracing scope. It sounds familiar, and refers to or overlaps a
good handful of similar films, but is most relevantly tied to Klute.
Where Klute was an exploration of claustrophobic anxiety, The Parallax
View
is inexorably agoraphobic. Its visual organisation is stunning as the
journalist (Beatty) is drawn into an increasingly nightmarish world
characterised by impenetrably opaque structures, a screen whited out
from time to time, or meshed over with visually deceptive patterns. It
is some indication of the area the film explores that in place of the
self-revealing session with the analyst in Klute, The Parallax View
presents us with the more insecurity-inducing questionnaire used by the
mysterious Parallax Corporation for personality-testing prospective
employees. Excellent performances; fascinating film.
Verina Glaessner
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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