In the 4th episode of this video essay series I breakdown the opening sequence from Francis Ford Coppola's 'The Conversation'.

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Here's the sequence without commentary - https://vimeo.com/140654307

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Roger Ebert on the film

"'The Conversation' comes from another time and place than today’s thrillers, which are so often simple-minded. This movie is a sadly observant character study, about a man who has removed himself from life, thinks he can observe it dispassionately at an electronic remove, and finds that all of his barriers are worthless."

Further Reading:

Alexander Huls -www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/04/why-em-the-conversation-em-should-be-required-viewing-at-the-nsa/360213/

Catherine Shoard - www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/apr/22/my-favourite-cannes-winner-the-conversation

Nathan Marone - www.rogerebert.com/scanners/opening-shots-the-conversation

Film:

Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
Peeping Tom (Powell, 1960)
Blow Up (Antonioni, 1966)
Greetings (De Palma, 1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974)
The Conversation (Coppola, 1974)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
One From The Heart (Coppola, 1981)
Rumble Fish (Coppola, 1983)
Body Double (De Palma, 1984)
1948 (Radford, 1984)
Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
JFK (Stone, 1991)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Coppola, 1992)
The Insider (Mann, 1999)
Big Brother UK (Channel Four, 2003)
Minority Report (Spielberg, 2002)
Zodiac (Fincher, 2007)
Paranormal Activity (Peli, 2007)
Youth Without Youth (Coppola, 2007)
Tetro (Coppola, 2009)
Twixt (Coppola, 2011)
Edward Snowden Interview (Poitras, 2013)
The NSA and Surveillance Animation (Guardian, 2014)
Citizenfour (Poitras, 2014)
Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters (Ted Talks, 2014)
Gone Girl (Fincher, 2014)
Blackhat (Mann, 2014)

Music:

Telephone Thing - The Fall
Observer - Gary Numan
The Social Network - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
JFK - John Williams
The Insider - Pieter Bourke & Lisa Gerrard
The Conversation - David Shire