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...closest thing I can think of to describe this movie is a scene from Alan Pakula's The Parallax View. Warren Beatty, a reporter uncovering a assassination conspiracy, finds that the huge Parallax Corporation is recruiting potential killers by a set of complex psychological tests designed to isolate psychopathic traits. He masquerades as a misfit, passes the tests, and is ushered into the mysterious corporate headquarters for further tests. They seat him in a large chair and wire him for blood pressure and visceral reactions, then they begin showing him a movie. The film--brilliantly done--is like the inside...
Directed by ALAN J. PAKULA...
...proved in Klute, Pakula has a restless eye for the banalities of daily life that gives the picture a richer texture than is usual in this genre. Early on, the film offers some promise. There is a brisk barroom brawl and a short car chase that is more smartly handled than these maneuvers usually are. But there is no way to build an overparanoid thriller or to provide a satisfactory ending. If the hero can break the conspiracy unaided, it cannot be much of a conspiracy. If, on the other hand, the conspiracy is all powerful, then the audience...
LOVE AND PAIN AND THE WHOLE DAMN THING Directed by ALAN J. PAKULA Screenplay by ALVIN SARGENT
...submission. His adolescent dewiness turns damp, his confusion becomes less consistently comic than congealed into mannerism. Of course, he is burdened with a role that is rather too severely sentimentalized. His Walter is blood kin to Pookie Adams of The Sterile Cuckoo (which represents the previous collaboration of Director Pakula and Scenarist Sargent), with none of Pookie's surface brashness and vigor. As played and as written, Walter never sheds the tentativeness and the fear that his relationship with Miss Fisher ought to have changed. He begins to act a good deal more assured, but like the film...