style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;" />The Conversation (Region B) Francis Ford Coppola's quiet masterpiece received a Region A Blu-ray upgrade last week from Lionsgate, and today it's out in the UK from Studio Canal. Coming after the monstrous success of The Godfather and before The Godfather: Part II, it's fair to say that The Conversation represented the kind of movie Coppola wanted to be known for making: intelligent, restrained, innovative, subtle, and substantive. Gene Hackman gives one of his signature performances as Harry Caul, an intensely private man who specializes in capturing the private conversations of strangers. He's a perfectionist, disdainful of others who produce what he considers inferior work, and very protective of his professional (and personal) secrets. He tolerates Stan (John Cazale, typically superb), his amiable colleague,...
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