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Disc #1 -- Conversation
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Close-Up On "The Conversation"
Theatrical Trailer
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Director Francis Ford Coppola
Editor Walter Murch
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English 5.1 Surround
French
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English For The Deaf and Hard Of Hearing
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Chapters
Disc #1 -- Conversation
1. Not Hurting Anyone [9:18]
2. Happy Birthday Harry [4:35]
3. Preeminent In The Field [6:13]
4. I Wanna Know You [8:17]
5. Don't Get Involved [4:44]
6. He'd Kill Us If He Got The Chance [8:29]
7. Surveillance Convention [8:33]
8. How'd You Do It? [2:06]
9. Tricked [19:09]
10. The Director [10:11]
11. Room 773 [8:27]
12. We'll Be Listening To You [11:45]
Casting - Jennifer Shull
Cinematographer - Bill Butler
Composer (Music Score) - David Shire
Costume Designer - Aggie Guerard Rodgers
First Assistant Director - Chuck Myers
Production Designer - Dean Tavoularis
Production Manager - Clark Paylow
Sound Recordist - Nathan Boxer
Sound/Sound Designer - Walter Murch
Sound/Sound Designer - Art Rochester
Though it was commercially lost in the shuffle between The Godfather and THE GODFATHER PART II, The Conversation ranks among the finest films of Francis Ford Coppola's career. Drawn on a more intimate canvas than the "Godfather" epics or Apocalypse Now, it's a compelling and expertly constructed chamber piece about the nature of privacy and the troubling gray area between facts and truth; it was also remarkably prescient, coming out just as the Watergate scandal was making surveillance a major issue in the American consciousness. Gene Hackman delivers a typically expert performance as Harry Caul, who makes his living finding out what others are doing. As a consequence, Caul has become an obsessively private man haunted by guilt and incapable of trusting anyone, and Hackman and Coppola mold him into an indelible character whose moral and professional sides are at constant war. Coppola also used his soundtrack with uncommon intelligence; in a decade in which the attention paid to film sound would increase by leaps and bounds, The Conversation was a breakthrough in using its soundtrack not just to convey dialogue and music but to deepen the story, as well as providing the ultimate screen example of the adage, "It's not what you say, it's how you say it." The Conversation is a subtle film that best reveals its details through repeat viewings, though even on a first viewing it's a brilliant cautionary tale whose message has become all the more potent with the passage of time and the further rise of technology. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Richard Chew : Best Editing - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 1974
Walter Murch : Best Editing - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 1974
Walter Murch : Best Soundtrack - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 1974
Art Rochester : Best Soundtrack - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 1974
Nathan Boxer : Best Soundtrack - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 1974
