Minimal Apertures is an addendum to the article The Western by Howard Slater with short remarks about The Wild Bunch, Once Upon A Time in the West, Winchester 73, McAbe and Mrs Miller, Ulzana’s Raid and El Topo.
Read More(Curfew, Curfew) As we grow more accustomed to the control of the urban environment through surveillance, zero tolerance zones and
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11 days before the election the president is suddenly facing a sex scandal after disappearing into his office with a teenage girl. A task force is set up, led by Robert de Niro, and it is decided the thing to do to get the sex scandal out of the headlines is go to war.
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Before Pakula made his well known All the Presidents Men, a film which centres directly on the Watergate debacle, he made The Parallax View, a film which expands the ‘private’ scenario of Klute into a wider social setting and which makes links between government, corporations and the assassinations of the 60s at the same time that it self-reflexively draws further attention to the power-wielding manipulations inherent in mainstream cinema.
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