The Conversation

In the enthralling Blow Out, brilliantly crafted by Brian De Palma, John Travolta gives one of his greatest performances, as a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He enlists the help of a possible eyewitness to the crime (Carrie’s Nancy Allen), who may be in danger herself, to uncover […]

The story of one man’s struggle to learn who are his friends, and who are his enemies? Robert Redford and director Sydney Pollack teamed up for their third collaboration on Three Days of the Condor, a sinuous tale of deceit and corruption, as well as one of Hollywood’s finest conspiracy thrillers of the 1970s. Redford stars as Joe Turner, […]

Perhaps no director tapped into the pervasive sense of dread and mistrust that defined the 1970s more effectively than Alan J. Pakula, who, in the second installment of his celebrated Paranoia Trilogy

Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford star in this political thriller about the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon. Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein (Hoffman) and Bob Woodward (Redford), aided by the White House mole Deep Throat (Hal Holbrook), thwart Nixon’s attempted cover-up after his agents are caught breaking in to the Watergate complex in […]