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70s Paranoia Double Feature - The Parallax View & The Stepford Wives
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70s Paranoia Double Feature - The Parallax View & The Stepford Wives

Continuing their attempt to divine information about the present from the artifacts of the past, our heroes examine 1974's The Parallax View and 1975's The Stepford Wives.

The Parallax View (1974)

one of our operatives will contact you directly…

Gav first met the Parallax View following this fascinating introduction by Alex Cox.

This is quite a Rabbit hole to go down, but this podcast series about the RFK assassination is very interesting

Michael Small’s soundtrack is namechecked a lot as an influence to later films.

We were both captivated by the look of the film, a lot of which had to do with Gordon Willis’s cinematography.

The Stepford Wives (1975)

I’ll Just Die If I Don’t Get This Recipe…

Start with the fact that the movie itself is available on Youtube…

…as well as the 1980 remake. Looks like lightning doesn’t strike the same place twice.

One of the great things about the Movie is the look of it...let's start with the fashion

What would a mechanical wife really look like?

In the film, in evil genius is called “Diz” because he worked for Disney. We met the mechanical presidents in J.G.Ballard’s novel “Hello America”

This lengthy essay tries to examine some of the feminist criticism of the film

Here's a pretty straightforward account of the shoot and the aftermath

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