Three Days of the Condor

[plaguedbyfoibles]

This is currently available on Netflix UK (not sure about regional variants of the platform / service).

The premise is that Robert Redford plays a low-level CIA researcher who works at the American Literary Historical Society in New York City, which is a front for a CIA operation.

He returns to the office from lunch one day to find all his colleagues have been murdered.

It's a great, tense spy thriller, released a few years after the Watergate scandal, so feels very much of its time.

[absolutezero]

Cracking film.

Another good one from around the same time is The Parallax View.
One of the "Pakula conspiracy trilogy". Also including Klute and All The Presidents' Men.

The 70s were a golden age for this type of picture.

[BobbyD]

Probably worth mentioning its set in a not entirely believable dystopian future where there are so few phones that you aren't allowed to carry your own around with you. They are found in buildings and little boxes on the street, and are tethered to the wall to stop people stealing them. Social media appears to have been wiped out, if you want to find out what has happened in the world you have to wait for something called a news broadcast at 6pm. That aside it's an enjoyable watch.

[absolutezero]

Probably worth mentioning its set in a not entirely believable dystopian future where there are so few phones that you aren't allowed to carry your own around with you. They are found in buildings and little boxes on the street, and are tethered to the wall to stop people stealing them. Social media appears to have been wiped out, if you want to find out what has happened in the world you have to wait for something called a news broadcast at 6pm. That aside it's an enjoyable watch.

Sounds like paradise. Where can we find this?

[pje16]

@plaguedbyfoibles
Thank you just watched it
A bit odd watching something back from that time
but is is an enjoyable film
Redford is brilliant
forgot how good he was
anywhere showing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

[servodude]

@plaguedbyfoibles
Thank you just watched it
A bit odd watching something back from that time
but is is an enjoyable film
Redford is brilliant
forgot how good he was
anywhere showing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Disney+ or Virgin Go apparently

Have to agree on Redford being brilliant in this - and in this kind of thing in general
- which is why they kept bringing him out of retirement for things like "Spy Game" or "Captain America"

- sd

[kenm47]

Probably worth mentioning its set in a not entirely believable dystopian future where there are so few phones that you aren't allowed to carry your own around with you. They are found in buildings and little boxes on the street, and are tethered to the wall to stop people stealing them. Social media appears to have been wiped out, if you want to find out what has happened in the world you have to wait for something called a news broadcast at 6pm. That aside it's an enjoyable watch.

And the NY Times is universally accepted as the epitome of honest journalism and as the major print bulwark against the forces of evil

Ken