I don’t have anything personal, nothing of value…

Gene Hackman in The Conversation

“Except my keys!”

Watched this again Sat­ur­day night. Still like it more than Blow-Up. Am most­ly impressed because it’s the tiny movie Cop­po­la sand­wiched between two God­fa­ther epics. The Con­ver­sa­tion makes me wish that Hack­man could’ve reprised the Har­ry Caul char­ac­ter through­out his career like Jean-Pierre Leaud’s Doinel. Then again, resur­fac­ing as Edward “Brill” Lyle thir­ty years on seems more fitting.

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