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The Parallax View
Alan J. Pakula | USA | 1974 | 102 min.

One of the most exciting films by the director of All the President's Men and Sophie's Choice, this stylish political thriller offers a fascinating study of political assassination and its consequences. An investigative reporter, played by Warren Beatty, tries to penetrate the cover-up that has surrounded the assassination of a senator. The frightening story unfolds with each piece of evidence he uncovers and, gradually, the hunter becomes the hunted. Shot by Gordon Willis in Panavision with production design by George Jenkins, the film looks stunning and seems even more relevant today than the day it was released.

DIRECTOR: Alan J. Pakula
CAST: Warren Beatty, William Daniels, Hume Cronyn, Paula Prentiss

Original language is English

Shown at the 1996 Human Rights Watch Festival. Distributed by Paramount Repertory, Kelly Bradley, 2124 Zuker Bldg, Paramount Pictures, 5555 Melrose, Los Angeles, CA 90038 Tel: (213) 956-5889, Fax: (213) 956 8627.

Alan J. Pakula
Alan Pakula began his career as an assistant in the Warner Bros. cartoon department in 1949 and graduated to producer status at Paramount with the baseball psychodrama Fear Strikes Out (1957). The film marked the first of seven collaborations with director Robert Mulligan which included To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), and Up the Down Staircase (1967). Pakula launched his own directorial career with The Sterile Cuckoo (1969) and hit his stride two years later with Klute (1971), starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland. Pakula went on to direct the Watergate exposé, All the President's Men (1976), William Styron's Holocaust drama, Sophie's Choice (1982) and the screen version of Scott Turow's bestselling thriller, Presumed Innocent (1990). He also directed The Pelican Brief (1993), based on the bestselling novel by John Grisham.

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