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  1. 2 days ago · Gene Hackman's performance in French Connection II showcases his range and ability to bring depth to a recurring character. In today’s film industry, there is a vast difference between the films ...

  2. 1 day ago · Gene Hackman as Harry Caul in The Conversation (1974) Up to this point the film’s predominant mood (emphasised by the faded, unaccentuated tones of Bill Butler’s photography) has been melancholy, apart from some gently ironic fun with the surveillance equipment convention (the banality of evil, machines for destroying private lives promoted and sold as though they were kitchen gadgets).

  3. 4 days ago · Francis Ford Coppola’s sparse, prescient thriller is inner, rather than outer-directed film about the threat of electronic surveillance, conceived well before the Watergate affair broke. Acknowledged as the king of the buggers, Gene Hackman’s surveillance expert Harry Caul is an intensely private man. Living alone in a scrupulously ...

  4. 4 days ago · Gene Hackman stars as wiretapping specialist Harry Caul, already a legend in the furtive but proliferating world of private surveillance. Caul designs and builds his own equipment, operates out of a draughty loft workshop and cloaks himself in tetchy professionalism (as well as a cheap, semi-translucent plastic raincoat that gives him an air of ghostliness).

  5. 4 days ago · GENE HACKMAN gave plenty of wonderful performanc­es in a glorious acting career but his quietest and most introspect­ive is in my view also his greatest. The Conversati­on (12A, 113 mins, ★★★★★ is back in cinemas from today, restored to mark its 50th anniversar­y.

  6. 2 days ago · The film stars Sean Connery, James Caan, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford, Dirk Bogarde, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Hardy Krüger, Ryan O'Neal, Maximilian Schell, and Liv Ullmann. An ensemble of this caliber is remarkable and should have theoretically resulted in more critical acclaim for the film ...

  7. 3 days ago · In The Conversation, we follow Gene Hackman’s Harry Caul, a quiet man who enjoys his surveillance, private-eye-like job and we see this in action in the opening sequence, played out in what feels like a real-life open setting, shot from above a large public square with the voyeuristic sense of watching a couple talking about their life clearly the focus, and it’s slowly revealed we’re ...

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