Newspaper reporter Frady (Warren Beatty) witnesses a political murder. When seven other witnesses subsequently die in suspicious «accidents», the journalist begins to doubt the official version. Was ...

We’re in the middle of several crises at once. Most of them would have been “unthinkable” even a few years ago. But one thing that has always remained true is the ease with which disaffected young men ...

The 1974 film The Parallax View concludes with a silhouette of a man with a gun in front of a doorway revealing white light.

It wasn’t apparent at the time — it seemed merely to be a depressing new normal — but in retrospect, the era from 1963 to 1981 was the age of assassination in American political history. In just over ...

The Parallax View joined the list of conspiracy thrillers made in the 1970s, at a time when America was at its most culturally depressed - the Vietnam war had been a disaster, Richard Nixon had been ...

Alan J. Pakula is remembered for capturing the gritty societal chaos of the early 1970s perhaps better than any other American director. His “Paranoia Trilogy” of Klute (1971), The Parallax View (1974 ...