THE PARALLAX VIEW

Saturday, August 23, 7:45 p.m. | “There will be no questions.” In this tense and scrambling film, a headstrong news reporter (Warren Beatty) quixotically struggles to expose a sinister Kennedy-style assassination conspiracy. Alan J. Pakula’s second collaboration with legendary lensman Gordon Willis (KLUTE, THE GODFATHER) wedded the burgeoning genre of “American political thriller” to a severe, Antonioni-ish sense of scale, composition, and color—Beatty and other puny humans are frequently dwarfed by pale, unfeeling cityscapes and gargantuan modernist architecture in vibrant primary hues. Among the film’s other monuments: a small, stirring performance from the great Paula Prentiss that serves as the story’s emotional linchpin. (Gabriel Wallace)

Awards & Nominations

Nominee - Best Adapted Drama, Writers Guild of America

Technicolor Weekend | August 22–24, 2025

The Chicago Film Society returns for its third iteration of Technicolor Weekend, a series which showcases prints made using the Technicolor printing process. All of the films in this series will be projected from prints that were at one point or another saved by private collectors. They were intended to last only through their initial runs, but instead have endured hundreds of screenings, studio mergers, film exchange closures, and multiple private owners. These unlikely survivors offer us a view of what these films looked like before digital color correction and other modern restoration techniques, and are stunning examples of an incredibly complex industrial process that delighted millions. Synopses courtesy of Chicago Film Society. Learn more at chicagofilmsociety.org.

The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu