This screening includes The Conversation
- Date and time:
- Sat, March 8, 2014, From 6:30–8:23 pm
- Runtime:
- 1 hr 53 min
- Cost:
- $3
About The Conversation
- Rating:
- Year Released:
- 1974
- Genres:
- Drama
- Metadata:
Considered one of Frances Ford Coppola’s masterpieces, The Conversation was first conceived in the mid- 1960s while Coppola listened to director Irvin Kershner discuss espionage and state-of-the-art surveillance tactics. He set-out to make a small, personal film about privacy as a modern horror film, centering on the personal and psychological life of the eavesdropper rather than his victims. The film’s plot has influences of Rear Window and Antonioni’s Blow-Up; a surveillance professional (Gene Hackman) is hired to tap and monitor a couple’s home. He uncovers what he believes to be a murder plot and becomes obsessed with the couple, his dilemma, and ultimately the paranoia that consumes him. (HD presentation)