Members Only: The Parallax View

Director: Alan J. Pakula

1974 / 102min / DCP

After an ex-girlfriend comes to him with an eyewitness report on the assassination of a sitting U.S. senator at the Seattle Space Needle that contravenes the official story, anti-authoritarian investigative reporter Warren Beatty follows a thread that leads him to the shadowy Parallax Corporation, a sinister, secret right-wing organization specializing in agitprop brainwashing and political hits who will stop at nothing to retain a grip on the levers of power.

“It's difficult not to feel a certain amount of suspense when you see a man standing below a huge hydroelectric dam, as blandly unaware of danger as a nearsighted pigeon walking across the Belt Parkway. The man doesn't know that at any minute several hundred thousand tons of water are going to come roaring out of the spillway, most likely onto his head … The suspense comes from wondering how he's going to escape, as in old‐time movie serials.” —Vincent Canby, The New York Times

Distributor: Paramount

Introduction by White House correspondent Shawn McCreesh on Sunday, October 18th