Zizek writes in The
Parallax View that "The difference
National Society of Film Critics ("Pennies From Heaven," "Godfather: Part II," "The
Parallax View")
In the build-up to the section on the miser in The
Parallax View, a similar thing occurs, suggesting that the 'Jewish moneylender' might be a figure over-determined by Zizek's own textual moves.
She is currently reading the short stories of Amy Hempel, Slavoj Zizek's A
Parallax View, Corinne May Botz's The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, Natsuo Kirino's Grotesque and True Confessions magazine.
(Zizek, we think, has attempted to respond to this in his recent The
Parallax View with commentaries on Wordsworth and the Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik.) Or Robert Pfaller, in giving a seemingly straight exegesis of his relationship to Althusser, has in fact deeply influenced Zizek's account of ideology.
His many motion picture credits include "The Black Orchid" with Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn, "
Parallax View" with Warren Beatty, "The Hindenburg" with George C.
It is a cross between Godzilla and The
Parallax View.
All The President's Men, The Conversation and The
Parallax View are as mesmerising today as they were back in the Seventies.The Sentinel can't compete with their air of tense paranoia.
All the President's Men would become known as the capstone in Pakula's "paranoid trilogy" following Klute (1971) and The
Parallax View (1974).
In the course of his latest theoretical provocation, The
Parallax View, for example, he puts in a good word for Stalinism, speaks up for revolutionary violence, defends the idea of the political Leader, and champions US fundamentalism against bien-pensant liberalism (among other reasons because adherents to the former believe in struggle while proponents of the latter believe only in difference).
Newell prepared for the job by watchingclassic thrillers about paranoia such as Three Days Of The Condor, The
Parallax View and All The President's Men as in the film Harry has been having nightmares he fears are starting to come true.
The same spirit animates many other comedies and thrillers, from The President's Analyst (1967) to The
Parallax View (1974).
Pakula's conspiracy films of the 1970s (The
Parallax View, All The President's Men, Klute).
Think of Hume Cronyn's faultlessly intelligent work in Lifeboat and The Postman Always Rings Twice or, decades later, in There Was a Crooked Man and The
Parallax View. Or consider Jack Carson, the character actor's character actor, a bearish presence whose gallery of glad-handing second bananas couldn't help but enhance the comparative glamour of a host of stars, including James Cagney, Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Judy Garland and Paul Newman.
Odd exceptions include Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (William Randolph Hearst) who used disinformation to precipitate the Spanish American War, and the doomed journalist in The
Parallax View who was overwhelmed by sinister forces of conspiracy at the highest level.
