movies (subject to tumblr's inconsistent search engine. for more complete results, try the archive): badlands, blow out, bring me the head of alfredo garcia, cadavres exquis, charley varrick, chinatown, dog day afternoon, il conformista, klute, le cercle rouge, marathon man, mean streets, night moves, point blank, prime cut, save the tiger, serpico, sisters, straight time, the day of the jackal, the don is dead, the driver, the friends of eddie coyle, the getaway, the harder they come, the hot rock, the killing of a chinese bookie, the last of sheila, the long goodbye, the mackintosh man, the onion field, the organization, the parallax view, the spook who sat by the door, the sting, the taking of pelham one two three, the yakuza, three days of the condor, villain, wanda
The Parallax View (1974)
The Parallax View is Pakula’s most adventurous in its exploration of the medium itself as event: in its fascination with an environment in which places often possess a more forceful identity than people; in its disdain of conventional polarizations in an analysis of the tension between the individual and civilization—above and beyond “society”—as the ultimate Organization; in its complex appreciation of history as pseudo-event; and above all in its forceful stylistic intuitions of the power and patterns of the imagination, how central intelligent agencies (be they mysterious corporations or film directors) can use it to reshape, even displace “reality.” -“The Pakula Parallax,” Richard T. Jameson, Film Comment
Parallax Corporation test film from their division of human engineering
The Parallax View (1974)
It only lasts a minute, but the film’s opening chase scene atop the Space Needle might be one of the best in ’70s crime drama.
