Early in his film career, Alan J. Pakula produced such important movies as 1962’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Later in his film career, he wrote the screenplays for such important movies as 1982’s Sophie’s Choice. And in between those two decades and triumphs, he directed some of the best films of the 1970s – including a trio of brilliant explorations of paranoia. In 1971, Klute. In 1976, he directed All the President’s Men. And in the middle of that streak, in 1974, he directed The Parallax View, a film that’s lesser known, but just as affecting and impressive, as those other two classics. Warren Beatty stars as a reporter who is given new information about the assassination of a popular senator. The Parallax View arrived eight years after the assassination of Robert Kennedy, and at the height of the aftermath of Watergate, just after the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon. Co-stars in this movie include Paula Prentiss and William Daniels, both of whom are terrific, as is Beatty. Watch this movie, and you won’t regret it – or forget it.