Alan J. Pakula
3 titles · new hollywood
The paranoid thrillers of the 1970s were Pakula's territory, at a time when Americans had reasons to be paranoid. In The Parallax View a reporter investigating a senator's assassination finds a conspiracy that reaches into a multinational corporation. All the President's Men follows two reporters uncovering Watergate. Sophie's Choice moves to Brooklyn in 1947, where a young writer befriends a Holocaust survivor and her lover.
Signature
- Conspiracy thrillers (The Parallax View, All the President's Men).
- People dwarfed by buildings in wide, deep frames.
- Gordon Willis's shadowy photography.
- Guilt and memory (Sophie's Choice).
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