REDISCOVERED
MICHAEL SMALL
Uncovering the underrated and overlooked
Vinyl debut for acclaimed conspiracy-thriller OST
Death atop Seattle’s Space Needle in The Parallax View
The Parallax View: Original Soundtrack
CINEMA PARADISO
8/10
“If the picture works,” director Alan J Pakula said of 1974’s The Parallax View, “the audience will trust the person sitting next to them a little less at the end of the film.” The Parallax View is a key paranoia-conspiracy movie from a decade – the 1970s – that was full of them, from The Conversation to Three Days Of The Condor and Pakula’s next work, All The President’s Men. Adapted from a novel reflecting unease around the disappearance of many individuals connected to the JFK assassination, the film imagines a shady deep state organisation bumping off witnesses to a presidential murder. This release compiles every note of music from the original photoplay on vinyl for the first time.