K-M recommended this after a comment i made about what one might over hear people talking about on Stevens Creek trail. The trail runs past tech companies out in the Shoreline area, Google and Microsoft are among the big names, and plenty of start-ups have offices out that way, too.

The movie isn’t much about corporate espionage, but much more about privacy, information, and morality. It’s still relevant; a remake with current technology could be fascinating or simply ruin how the film is stripped down to raw theme.

With Harrison Ford and Robert Duvall, an IMDB comparison to the cast and crew of Apocalypse Now was entertaining. Christine notes that Harrison Ford’s act of turning on the tape recorder in that film creates and interesting echo of The Conversation.

I showed FF Coppola’s ‘The Conversation’ for movie night last Thursday. The discussion afterward was pretty good. I always like how a flick can take you inside a person’s head. The Conversation offered a good counterpoint to ‘Rear Window.’ I suppose I’ll have to see ‘Repulsion’ and ‘Blow Up,’ and a bunch of other related movies, too. So, it goes. (Afterward, we decided to show ‘Fanny and Alexander’ next Thursday.)

Pure pleasure.

Repetitive, repeating shapes and details, clarity and muddle. Plays with the attention, directs your attention, misdirects your attention . . . sound without image.

And now I get it, Harrison Ford is hot.