Episode 442: The Conversation (1974)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Noirvember 2019 continues with a look at The Conversation (1974). Sandwiched between the first two Godfather films, The Conversation is writer/director Francis Ford Coppola’s paean to European art films of the 1960s, most notably Antonioni’s Blow-Up.

Instead of swinging London, however, The Conversation is set in San Francisco and stars Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, a schlubby nudnik whose life revolves around audio surveillance, his own privacy, and violating the privacy of others.

Vincenzo Natali (In the Tall Grass) and Jamey Duvall (Movie Geeks United) join Mike to discuss the film and its spiritual sequel Enemy of the State.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:12.1	This is a world of hidden mics and two-way mirrors.
0:16.3	A world where nothing is private.
0:18.6	Do you think we can do this?
0:20.4	Later in the week. Do you think we can do this? Later in the week.
0:24.1	Harry Cole is an expert.
0:28.1	The best there is.
0:30.0	Let me tell you something about Harry Call.
0:32.6	The best bar none.
0:34.7	I'll drink to that.
0:36.4	Best what?
0:39.3	The best bugger on the West Coast. What about me?
0:41.3	He can bug anybody, anytime, anywhere.
0:45.3	Nobody knows how you did it though, Harry.
0:47.3	It was the hell of a scandal, too.
0:49.3	Look, what did you see him?
0:52.3	The man with the hearing aid like Charles.
0:54.8	He's been following us.
0:56.1	They're not people to him.
0:57.9	Just voices.
0:59.7	Three people were murdered, that's all.
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