The Conversation

Watched the Frances Ford Coppola movie The Conversation last night. Really good. Very creepy and unnerving. Gene Hackman is great as an extremely tightly wound surveillence expert. People don't seem to talk about it as much as the more iconic Coppola movies, but it's really engaging and dense; definitely made before he started making dumb movies.

It's also kind of exciting to see so many reel-to-reel tape recorders in one movie.

Lots of movie connections. Biggest one that grabbed my attention was John Cazale, who played Fredo in The Godfather ; he plays Gene Hackman's assistant. Apparently, he was only in 5 movies, each nominated for a best picture Oscar, before he died of cancer.