Vote Cinema: American Politics on Film

Reeling from the traumatic national climate of the late 1960s, the so-called New Hollywood of the 1970s ushered in an onslaught of political thrillers boasting above-the-title stars and suspiciously well-funded cynicism. In one of the era’s most complex entries, Warren Beatty stars as a journalist who infiltrates a shadowy corporation he suspects of orchestrating a series of politically motivated assassinations. A masterpiece of moody paranoia. (USA, 1974, 35mm, color, 102 min.)