The Conversation: Coppola's Surveillance Nightmare

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Francis Ford Coppola made three films in a row that would have been any other director’s whole career, and the middle one is the one nobody talks about first. The Godfather came in 1972. The Godfather Part II came at the end of 1974. Wedged between them, released that same spring and shot on a fraction of the budget, is The Conversation — the small, cold, personal picture Coppola has repeatedly said is the one closest to him. It won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1974. It then had the bad luck to be up against Coppola’s own sequel at the Oscars, which is a level of self-competition that borders on the comic.

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The Conversation: Coppola's Surveillance Nightmare