The Conversation
Selected by the Sound Branch.
Selected by the Sound Branch.
Francis Ford Coppola wrote and directed this unnerving paranoid thriller between production of his two Godfather films, with Gene Hackman as a San Francisco surveillance expert who accidentally uncovers evidence of an imminent murder. Few films have featured sound as such a key component of their storyline, and three-time Oscar winner Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient) served as both supervising film editor and sound mixer, working in both capacities to build remarkable tension. The film earned Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Coppola’s original screenplay, and Sound (Murch, Arthur Rochester).