'The Conversation' | Critics' Picks

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15 жыл бұрын

A. O. Scott discusses Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 masterpiece and the end of privacy.
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@DawnietotheMax 4 жыл бұрын

My Dad is in this movie. He's playing the drums in the park scene.

@nikoskanak6551 4 жыл бұрын

A skilled player indeed

@timmi59 4 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome

@prilljazzatlanta5070 Жыл бұрын

Like hes acting like a drum or hes a drum player? Sorry im a little slow

@DawnietotheMax Жыл бұрын

@@prilljazzatlanta5070 He's a real drummer. The drumming you hear in that/those scene is him playing the Congos and some other drum.

@prilljazzatlanta5070 Жыл бұрын

@@DawnietotheMax i was being silly but thanks for confirming. Drummers are my favorite musicians, especially jazz drummers

@65g4 10 жыл бұрын

this is a highly underrated masterpiece

@DC-zi6se 4 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't call it a masterpiece. But certainly underrated.

@65g4 4 жыл бұрын

@@DC-zi6se i think its a masterpiece but you dont have to

@Mmm.charmeleon 4 жыл бұрын

Philip Moore I respect you for replying 6 years later.....

@swishvicishere7410 4 жыл бұрын

100% a masterpiece, Coppola's magnum opus

@randywhite3947 4 жыл бұрын

Your neighborhood friend nah it’s a Masterpiece kiddo

@NoWhereMan95 4 жыл бұрын

Got one of the best jump scares as well. Almost becomes a horror movie towards the end.

@danielmcdermott138 4 жыл бұрын

@Elitedevil The movie is without question a masterwork, but I was desperate uncomfortably watching it.

@danielmcdermott138 4 жыл бұрын

You're referring to the toilet?

@NoWhereMan95 4 жыл бұрын

The toilet scene is great, but seeing the woman pushed up against the glass as well made me jump out of my seat. Totally unexpected.

@JSavo_ Жыл бұрын

Great comment. So true I couldn’t ever describe the end but I think you nailed it.

@bencarlson4300 3 жыл бұрын

Coppola in the 70s might have the best run of masterpieces in film history

@jonisafreak3 2 жыл бұрын

Kubrick

@gamepower69. Жыл бұрын

@@jonisafreak3 can't we agree it's eqaul

@jonisafreak3 Жыл бұрын

@@gamepower69. yes we can, i love film no matter what.

@dynjarren7523 5 жыл бұрын

It’s a Prescient film about surveillance. Today people are recorded and filmed 24/7 in the cities and no one even cares or pays attention. Privacy? what’s privacy? Never heard of it. People have just accepted the spying and recording as the new normal in exchange for safety. The film is a murder mystery with a twist. I won’t ruin it for you but it a well made film.

@fluff975 12 жыл бұрын

truly one of the greatest movies ever made

@mikefitzgerald6831 2 жыл бұрын

No other filmmaker hit it out of the park like Coppola did between 1972 and 1974. Three all-time masterpieces in a row: The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather II. Who else has a record to match that?

@rocco080401 Жыл бұрын

Maybe Hitchcock Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho in 3 years

@SonofSethoitae Жыл бұрын

And then the next movie he made was Apocalypse Now. The 70s were a wild time for movies.

@jespersahnerpedersen Жыл бұрын

Sergio Leone: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America

@Kevon420 11 ай бұрын

Welles made the three best films of the 1940s with Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Seven, and The Lady From Shanghai.

@john.morena 10 ай бұрын

Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove, 2001, Clockwork Orange

@garrison6863 Жыл бұрын

This is Coppola's best film. And Hackman was superb.

@Bradwhitehead415 7 жыл бұрын

"Have a free pen" - William P. Moran

@maxheadrom3088 3 жыл бұрын

Coppola did "The Godfather" to gather money to do this film. Who created that sound effect we hear in the opening sequence? That sound effect became synonym for surveillance and can be heard on PBS' Frontline "United States Secrets".

@mikefitzgerald6831 2 жыл бұрын

This is might be the best movie of the 1970s, perhaps of all time. Seriously. A hidden masterpiece.

@apseudonym 3 жыл бұрын

my favourite film. coppola and hackman are untouchable here

@BDboystoys1 15 жыл бұрын

One of my absolute favourites, a real classic. the soundtrack alone is so beautiful & haunting

@ppuh6tfrz646 Жыл бұрын

It's frightening how much I relate to the character of Harry Caul. Watching him onscreen is like looking in a mirror.

@prathameshbhambure 7 ай бұрын

Francis Ford Coppola is incredibly extraordinary! Every movie he's ever made tells a saga to its audience in the most uncontaminated form. I revere Coppola so much because he's the reason why I love cinema the way I could never love unless I watched his masterpieces. Needless to say, Gene, Ford, Duvall & Cazale are like blessings to the world of cinema. *15 December 2023*

@mrzoperxplex 11 жыл бұрын

What the hell is behind the Times wanting to stretch this video to fit the widescreen format? It distorts everything including the motion picture that conforms to the native aspect ratio to begin with.

@EyeLean5280 4 жыл бұрын

One of the more interesting and less predictable choices on the Criticis' Picks list. Although of course it is in a lot of ways the American version of Blow Up.

@abrahamgomez7366 Жыл бұрын

Why American version? Blow Up was made by Depalma an American film director. You mean that Blow Up is more European in terms of lens and camera perspective?

@Ravi-xf8dw Жыл бұрын

@@abrahamgomez7366 he is talking about 1966 blow up. A European film that inspired de palma's film.

@reubensane5539 Жыл бұрын

I know Brian Depalma‘s blowout is mostly inspired by the 60s (Michelangelo Antonioni )film blow up but I see a lot of influence from the conversation as well.

@rerite2 3 жыл бұрын

Great film, and fun to see San Francisco when it didn't cost an arm and a leg to get an apartment.

@Greg042869 7 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure the film would have the same emotional impact today. It played off an awareness or sensitivity that no longer exists. There used to be a reflexive reaction to an intrusion into our privacy, but now surveillance is pretty much expected, isn't it? On the highway, at the store, on the phone, online, everything is tracked and recorded. If anonymity is possible, it's simply a result of overwhelming input from other sources, and apathy. Maybe that could be the theme of the sequel. Hackman and Williams star in the new film, Another Conversation. You'll hear the actors deliver such memorable lines as, "Meh, what are you going to do?"

@deckofcards87 6 жыл бұрын

I agree with all of your points except that this movie still packed an emotional punch when I watched it...and I'm 25. I can understand the paranioa in context. Hackman's performance alone effects me.

@mirazusta2002 6 жыл бұрын

In my opinion, the point is not the particular time and context when something becomes trending topic, like surveillance in the times of the Watergate scandal, but how a story is told and unveils, whatever the medium used, film or literature, and from that perspective, I think, "The Conversation" delivers good entertainment to this day thanks to the craftsmanship with which the film was made, which makes it possible for it to stand the test of time despite how irrelevant the plot could seem to be now. The same happens to me with many of the films by Alfred Hitchcock.

@dustywaxhead 5 жыл бұрын

I think you're underestimating most audiences. Just look at 1984, kids still read that in high school and see it for what it represents

@Flosseveryday 2 жыл бұрын

I guarantee this story would work if it was set in the current era. You’re missing the point completely. There were just as many dull meaningless conversations at that time as there are now. This wasn’t a movie about spying on society it was about a husband spying on his wife and a private detective with blood on his hands from a previous job and a heavy conscience telling him it could happen again and as his character says “I don’t fear death, but murder” There’s much more going on in the movie and you are selling the story short or confusing it for a different story altogether. Did you even watch the movie?

@Greg042869 2 жыл бұрын

@@Flosseveryday There's a movie?

@walshnormandy1605 2 жыл бұрын

just saw at the Film Forum, January, 2022! amazing!!!

@lens2optic 14 жыл бұрын

masterpiece of cinema

@drlee2 3 жыл бұрын

Hottest take ever: The Conversation should actually have won Best Picture over The Godfather Part 2.

@tbewin1z143 3 жыл бұрын

lolololol

@benanderson3791 3 жыл бұрын

Great film but come on! 😅

@Flosseveryday 2 жыл бұрын

This movie is a masterpiece. No doubt.

@andrewhillis2269 3 жыл бұрын

VERY INTERESTING & FASCINATING THE LINKS BETWEEN THIS FILM & ENEMY OF THE STATE ! ! ! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@pm_-wm1wq 4 жыл бұрын

Harrison Ford’s voice at 02:42

@thrillofbattle3801 3 жыл бұрын

Nice catch :)

@scottscoville1118 5 жыл бұрын

regRding the trailer - Excellent! Very Good! Good job!

@n.webber157 3 жыл бұрын

This and Network are the most prescient films of the 20th century, bar none

@Sdfghjk442 5 жыл бұрын

What a movie

@sasdrusbaslisto9538 Жыл бұрын

This is amazing. The film is a great classic. But the critic is clean, simple and effective. I miss that. I enjoy complex and creative reviews, but sometimes it just saturates me as an audience member and makes me appreciate less pretentious styles of cinema ibterpretation

@DogAmongMen 15 жыл бұрын

That was a pretty good movie.

@konami1979 3 ай бұрын

One of the great San Francisco movies.

@Vlad65WFPReviews Жыл бұрын

I adore this movie but am bothered how it "cheats" by abruptly altering the emphasis of a key piece of the taped "Conversation" after it had been played earlier - I wish this twist were somehow done differently - a great film nonetheless.