Tuesday, May 6, 7:00 pm - Three Days of the Condor
Tuesday, May 13, 7:00 pm - The Parallax View
Tuesday, May 20, 7:00 pm - Klute
Tuesday, May 27, 7:00 pm - The Conversation
Join us Tuesdays in May for our new film series: TRUST NO ONE: PARANOID THRILLERS FROM 1970s AMERICA.
In the 1970s, a number of factors -- the rise of the counterculture, increasing distrust in governments and corporations in the wake of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, the fall of the Hays Code and the subsequent emergence of American auteurs -- combined to create a sub-genre of film: conspiracy-laden suspense-thrillers where everyone is being watched, all the phones are bugged, and all nails that stick out must be hammered down. Trust No One, indeed -- these four films embody that ethos in spades.
May 6: Three Days of the Condor
CIA analyst -- "a book reader" -- Joe Turner (Robert Redford) returns from lunch to find his office invaded, forcing him to go on the run while unraveling a vast conspiracy.
Even within his own agency, he discovers that secrets and betrayal are standard operating procedure. Seeking answers and survival, he pulls a reluctant stranger (Faye Dunaway) into his dangerous world.
"Three Days of the Condor is a well-made thriller, tense and involving, and the scary thing, in these months after Watergate, is that it's all too believable." —Roger Ebert
"This peerless Sydney Pollack thriller hasn't just aged well, it's become positively prophetic, or at least eerily resonant." —Kevin Maher, Times UK
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow
United States | English | 1975 | Suspense Thriller | 117 minutes | R
May 13: The Parallax View
In the wake of a senator's death, investigative journalist Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) uncovers a shadowy corporation that recruits political assassins.
The deeper he digs, the clearer it becomes that knowing the truth may seal his fate -- because in a world where conspiracy is institutionalized, Frady finds that the enemy isn't hiding -- it's everywhere.
"A political conspiracy thriller par excellence and a candidate perhaps for Beatty's finest screen moment." —David Wood, BBC
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Starring Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels, Hume Cronyn, and featuring a special appearance by the Skagit River
United States | English | 1974 | Suspense Thriller | 102 minutes | R
May 20: Klute
High-end call girl Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda) is being watched, followed, and possibly targeted -- caught between her past, her instincts for self-preservation, and a growing fear that she may be the key to a man’s disappearance. When small-town detective John Klute (Donald Sutherland) enters her life, his investigation opens old wounds and unsettling truths.
As Bree struggles to reclaim control over her own story, the film becomes a study in surveillance, exploitation, and the terrifying vulnerability of being seen.
"Fonda makes all the right choices, from the mechanics of her walk and her voice inflection to the penetration of the girl's raging psyche. It is a rare performance." —Jay Cocks, Time Magazine
"A movie resolutely of its moment that still surges with third-rail electricity." —Melissa Anderson, Village Voice
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Starring Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider
United States | English | 1971 | Suspense Thriller | 114 minutes | R
May 27: The Conversation (4K Restoration)
Surveillance expert Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) becomes consumed by guilt and suspicion when he believes a taped conversation he recorded may lead to murder.
As he struggles to uncover the truth, his carefully controlled, isolated life begins to unravel, and Caul realizes that no one -- not even himself -- can be fully trusted.
"It is a superior movie, a dynamic social document, and an exemplary public service. In every way, a Kilimanjaro among motion pictures." —Rex Reed, New York Daily News
"Under Coppola's direction it succeeds on a variety of levels: as sheer thriller, as psychological study, as social analysis, and as political comment." —Judith Crist, New York Magazine
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Harrison Ford, Teri Garr
United States | English | 1974 | Suspense Thriller | 113 minutes | PG
Film Prices
Lincoln Theatre Members get $3.00 off on the following prices when buying tickets at-the-door:
General: $12.00
Seniors, Students, and Active Military: $11.00
Children 12 and under: $9.50
All prices include a $2.00 Preservation Fee that goes directly into our capital account for the preservation of the Lincoln Theatre and its programs.