Paranoia strikes deep! Alan J. Pakula made The Watergate-era conspiracy creepshow in this sinister extrapolation of political trends. Warren Beatty’s investigative reporter thinks he has an inside track to expose and destroy what looks like a shadow assassination bureau. If the technology of 1974 could be made this efficient, our own Brave New World of ‘truth control’ seems even scarier. Pakula and cameraman Gordon Willis found a Panavision style that fully expresses the faceless corporate menace; the ‘Parallax Recruitment Montage’ is still the most terrifying piece of psych-out Agit-prop ever assembled.
The Parallax View
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1064
1974 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 102 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date February 9, 2021 / 39.95
Starring: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels, Jo Ann Harris, Walter McGinn, Jim Davis, Stacy Keach Sr., Ford Rainey, Richard Bull, Kenneth Mars, Bill McKinney, Craig R. Baxley, Anthony Zerbe.
Cinematography: Gordon Willis
Film Editor: John W. Wheeler...
The Parallax View
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1064
1974 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 102 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date February 9, 2021 / 39.95
Starring: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels, Jo Ann Harris, Walter McGinn, Jim Davis, Stacy Keach Sr., Ford Rainey, Richard Bull, Kenneth Mars, Bill McKinney, Craig R. Baxley, Anthony Zerbe.
Cinematography: Gordon Willis
Film Editor: John W. Wheeler...
- 2/9/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
If being the Mayor of Star City wasn't enough of a challenge, Oliver's going to have his nights booked for the foreseeable future breaking in his new ragtag team of heroes. Oliver's new Team Arrow will come together in episode two, titled "The Recruits," and will consist of Curtis Holt a.k.a. Mr. Terrific, Jack Wheeler a.k.a. Wild Dog, and Evelyn Sharp a.k.a. Artemis. Get your first look at the team as well as a few shots of Mayor Queen consulting his most trusted advisors below: Suit Up - Oliver's (Stephen Amell) new recruits for Team Arrow are Curtis (Echo Kellum), Wild Dog (guest star Rick Gonzalez) and Evelyn Sharp (guest star Madison McLaughlin). Unfortunately, the Green Arrow's training methods prove to be too much for some of them to handle. Meanwhile, in the flashbacks, Oliver's initiation into the Bratva continues. James Bamford directed...
- 10/1/2016
- ComicBookMovie.com
Twin Peaks, Season 2, Episode 18, “On the Wings of Love”
Written by Harley Peyton and Robert Engels
Directed by Duwayne Dunham
Originally aired April 4, 1991 on ABC
At first, Harry’s hangover is a funny running gag in this episode, as several different characters give their opinions about the best cure for one, from Cooper’s attempt to make Harry throw up to Annie’s “teetotaling and prayer”. It becomes such a plot point, however, repeatedly brought up and emphasized with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, that it takes on a deeper meaning. It certainly seems as though Harry’s hangover is a wry metaphor for the state of the series. The last six episodes, including the one preceding this one, were filmed in one block, and they seem to acknowledge that things got off the rails. Harry’s search for a hangover cure mirrors their search for a way to right the ship...
Written by Harley Peyton and Robert Engels
Directed by Duwayne Dunham
Originally aired April 4, 1991 on ABC
At first, Harry’s hangover is a funny running gag in this episode, as several different characters give their opinions about the best cure for one, from Cooper’s attempt to make Harry throw up to Annie’s “teetotaling and prayer”. It becomes such a plot point, however, repeatedly brought up and emphasized with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, that it takes on a deeper meaning. It certainly seems as though Harry’s hangover is a wry metaphor for the state of the series. The last six episodes, including the one preceding this one, were filmed in one block, and they seem to acknowledge that things got off the rails. Harry’s search for a hangover cure mirrors their search for a way to right the ship...
- 7/24/2015
- by Jake Pitre
- SoundOnSight
Twin Peaks, Season 2, Episode 16, “The Condemned Woman”
Written by Tricia Brock
Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter
Aired February 16th, 1991 on ABC
I have dreamed so much of you
Walked so much, spoken, lain with your phantom…
That all I have to do now perhaps is to be a phantom
among phantoms and a ghost, hundred times…
More than the ghost who walks gaily over the sun-dial of
your life.
“To beginnings…and endings. And the wisdom to know the difference.” Andrew Packard says this to Josie, pertinent words considering Josie’s unusual fate this episode, but they also apply to several dissolving relationships that occur. First, the romance between Harry and Josie has come to end with her demise, though whether they could have kept going had she survived is equally unclear. Nadine and Mike have fallen in love, so she breaks up with Ed once and for all, which...
Written by Tricia Brock
Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter
Aired February 16th, 1991 on ABC
I have dreamed so much of you
Walked so much, spoken, lain with your phantom…
That all I have to do now perhaps is to be a phantom
among phantoms and a ghost, hundred times…
More than the ghost who walks gaily over the sun-dial of
your life.
“To beginnings…and endings. And the wisdom to know the difference.” Andrew Packard says this to Josie, pertinent words considering Josie’s unusual fate this episode, but they also apply to several dissolving relationships that occur. First, the romance between Harry and Josie has come to end with her demise, though whether they could have kept going had she survived is equally unclear. Nadine and Mike have fallen in love, so she breaks up with Ed once and for all, which...
- 7/3/2015
- by Jake Pitre
- SoundOnSight
Unfolding across the various Batman titles, a long-forgotten DC Comics character returned in Scott Snyder's 2012 miniseries, Night of the Owls miniseries. Fans were very receptive to Snyder's revelation and the way the scribe managed to acknowledge past continuity. Here's five similar DC characters that could also use a similar reinvention. Wild Dog: Wild Dog is a fictional vigilante operating out of Quad Cities. He first appeared in Wild Dog #1 back in September 1987 as a creation from Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty. When Jack Wheeler suffers through the dual tragedies of having his Marine squadron killed by a terrorist bomb and later having his girlfriend (secretly the daughter of a mob boss) killed by professional hit men, he dons fatigues, body armor (underneath a hockey jersey), electrified gloves and a hockey mask to battle the forces of evil. Wild Dog's storylines frequently involved terrorism and...
- 5/5/2013
- ComicBookMovie.com
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