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| DCist is a website about Washington, D.C. MoreEditor: Sommer Mathis
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Friday, July 25, 2008 --- 35 days ago http://feeds.gothamistllc.com/click.phdo?i=46179522ee031cbdce14a915f8993b4a
 DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. The Parallax View This week in Popcorn & Candy, what's old is new again. We've got Cold War satire that's just as appropriate now, a TV series that was at its best in the '90s reborn on the big screen, and ancient Rome through the lens of the mid-20th century. But topping the list is Alan Pakula's 1970s political thriller The Parallax View , which offered a diabolical view of corporate tinkering in national politics that has steadily gained popularity with the modern conspiracy theorist set. Not necessarily the specifics of the film's story, which centers on a massive plot by a mysterious corporation to systematically assassinate any politician or member of the media who might stand in the way of their goals. But the tone of justified paranoia and raw nerve terror in the face of a corporate culture with a Machiavellian lust for power is predicted with jarring prescience by the film. Warren Beatty, who also co-produced, stars as a reporter attempting to investigate the link between the assassination of a presidential candidate (modeled on the RFK murder) and the Parallax Corporation. It stands out as one of his least marquee-idol performances, mostly because he lets Pakula and legendary cinematographer Gordon Willis go their own skewed way with the film. Their unusual compositions seem to keep the movie's ... |
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