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Jun 11, 2024 · Watching Matthew Miele’s “Alan J. Pakula: Going For Truth” (2019), more a heartfelt memorial tribute than a standard doc, waves of nostalgia swept over me, not just for his best films, but for the bygone days when artists like him could thrive; when good, meaty scripts were still prized and Hollywood invested in them.
Jun 17, 2024 · The following quotes are from an archival video interview with Alan J. Pakula included in the 2019 documentary, ALAN PAKULA: GOING FOR TRUTH. "And I had in mind a certain kind of psychological test that would define and attract an assassin and whip him up and whip his blood pressure up."
3 days ago · Alan Pakula Cinema Alan Pakula’s reputation for directing films with tangled, almost indecipherable, plots (e.g., Klute (1971), All the President’s Men (1976)) is unparalleled. The narratives of his most famous works, however, are secondary to the way the way he uses visual perspective, framing, angles and objects to simultaneously ...
Jul 2, 2024 · Over two decades ago, Alan J Pakula adapted the same novel for a legal thriller with Harrison Ford as the lead. Written by Pakula and Frank Pierson, the screenplay followed the life of a prosecutor who gets charged with the murder of his colleague, with whom he had a sexual affair.
Jun 24, 2024 · Alan J. Pakula's Klute was an Oscar-winning showcase for Jane Fonda—but Sutherland's work as a simple small-town cop exemplifies the late actor's greatness.
5 days ago · Growing up in the U.K. the first I heard of Watergate was via Alan J. Pakula’s, All the President’s Men (1976) the film adaptation of Woodward and Bernstein’s book. It was from that first glimpse of Nixon’s bungled cover-up that grew a fascination that’s lasted to this day.
Jun 20, 2024 · As an actor, he could do it all. His turn as the titular private detective opposite Jane Fonda in Alan Pakula’s 1971 “Klute” rides a tricky knife’s edge — is he a good guy? Does that ...
