Forty-eight years after winning the top prize at Cannes for The Conversation, the uncanny thriller linking our surveillance culture to corporate dirty tricks, Francis Ford Coppola has supervised a new 35-mm. print of the film that premiered at New York’s Film Forum and is rolling out across the country, opening in L.A. on January 28 and in San Francisco on February 4.
This groundbreaking movie looks and feels fresher than ever. Coppola and his star, Gene Hackman, imbue technical genius Harry Caul with contradictions and hypocrisies that epitomize America’s split personality even more now than during Watergate. A driven professional and devout Catholic, Caul routinely breaches other people’s privacy and can’t control his growing obsession with one of his current targets, an apparent innocent named Ann (Cindy Williams).
