The Conversation

...men of honour, grappling with temptation; men to trust and respect, and not to get on the wrong side of. He shares more with the likes of The Conversation-era Gene Hackman than, say, the stars of The Sweeney. A lot of these clips have...

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...Demme, Ron Howard and James Cameron. Willis, one of the masters of cinematography whose credits include "The Godfather" films, "The Conversation," "All the President's Men" and "Manhattan," is a two-time Academy Award nominee, for...

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...and Cher Comedy Hour." And then in 1974, things broke out for Garr, landing a pivotal supporting role in Francis Ford Coppola's THE CONVERSATION and Mel Brooks' YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. The 1970s continued to be good for Garr with roles in the...

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...Cindy Williams and Frederic Forrest, and featuring Harrison Ford, Teri Garr and an uncredited appearance from Robert Duvall. The Conversation won the Golden Palm at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, and in , it was selected for...

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...idolizes his older brother and craves his affection more than he should. But Tetro, based on Coppola's first original screenplay since 1974's The Conversation, is an even more theatrical and dreamy work. Eighteen-year-old Bennie (hugely...

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...it's a throwback to another time and a bit too pretentiously arty. "Tetro" is Coppola's first original screenplay since 1974's "The Conversation," and he calls it his most personal but still fictional. Borrowing some basics from Greek...

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...it appeared. Photo: Andrew Meares One of my favourite movies is Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece The Conversation. In the film, the Gene Hackman character, a paranoid surveillance expert, is paid to monitor the conversation of a young...

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...career. I was reading something about John Cazale recently. He went five-for-five - those ("The Godfather," "The Godfather Part II," "The Conversation," "Dog Day Afternoon" and "The Deer Hunter")) were five Academy Award-winning films. Nobody...

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...few of the featured films. The Barrow brothers share a few moments of levity in Bonnie and Clyde (on at 5 P.M.). Here's the opening of The Conversation (on at 7 P.M.), filmed in Union Square, back when there was greenery and grass instead...

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...a melancholy of the Coppola clan. After defining the 1970s with a series of classic pictures aEUR" The Godfather and its first sequel, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now aEUR" Coppola has since struggled with lesser material that rarely...

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