The Parallax View is possibly the most paranoid of a small wave of paranoid thrillers from the 70s. Several of these (including Klute and All The President’s Men) were also directed by Alan J Pakula. Here, Warren Beatty stars as a crusading journalist who comes to realise that all witnesses a political assassination are steadily…
Bonnie And Clyde
In the ongoing debate about graphic violence in the movies, Bonnie and Clyde is something of a watershed. It is tame stuff by today’s standards, but in 1967 the climactic assassination scene, where Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed and ripped apart in a slow motion orgy of gunfire, attracted plenty of notoriety, and became hugely influential…