THE CONVERSATION
New 50th Anniversary 4K restoration! Gene Hackman stars as a conflicted wiretapping expert in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 Palme d’Or Winner. Special screenings Dec 20-22.
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DEC 20 | FRI
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DEC 21 | SAT
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DEC 22 | SUN
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THE ROSS WILL BE CLOSED DECEMBER 23 – JANUARY 2 FOR UNL’S WINTER BREAK
SYNOPSIS
Lonely wiretapping expert and devout Catholic Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is hired to record a seemingly innocuous conversation in San Francisco’s Union Square between two lovers. Upon re-hearing the tapes, however, Caul believes he may be putting the couple in danger if he turns the material over to his client (Robert Duvall). But what one hears can ultimately turn out to be quite different from what was actually recorded.
Director
Francis Ford Coppola
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Run Time
Released
Distributed by
Rialto Pictures
HEARING AND VISUAL ASSISTANCE
Assisted Listening
Country
United States
SUBTITLES
None
RATED PG
For some violence and adult themes
REVIEWS
“AN IMMACULATE THRILLER…a study in paranoia and loneliness, partly inspired by Antonioni’s Blow-Up, and released as the Watergate scandal was unfolding, [with] one of Gene Hackman’s greatest performances.”
“You know how some movies need to be seen on a big screen? The Conversation needs to be heard in an auditorium on the kind of equipment you don’t have at home. It’s an intricately constructed aural experience about the act of listening, and how sometimes our perceptions of sounds are shaped by what we want to hear.”
“A shout-out to Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-up, The Conversation perfectly encapsulates the disaffection, alienation, and paranoia infecting America’s body politic in the era of Watergate.”
“Celebrated in its time yet ahead of it, powerfully entertaining as well as prescient…as disturbing and unnerving as ever, if not more so.”