The Conversation is a most disturbing film. Shot in San Francisco in the mid 1970’s the film was awarded the top prize at Cannes.  The opening scene in Union Square is timeless.  It is available on Amazon Prime. The New Yorker – Michael Sragow The writer-director Francis Ford Coppola took a suggestion from his fellow-filmmaker … Continue reading The Conversation. An early and disturbing look at the Surveillance State