Francis Ford Coppola's classic 'The Conversation' will return to theaters in 4K restoration.
Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, a 1974 picture that could have been the zenith of many directors' careers but was sandwiched
between Coppola's Oscar-winning epics The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, is coming back to theatres.
The filmmaker said on Tuesday that he has begun a complete 4K restoration of the Oscar-nominated film starring Gene Hackman, Cindy Williams, Teri Garr, Robert Duvall, and Harrison Ford.
A new trailer for the restoration will be shown at New York's IFC Centre and the Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles on 9 August, the 50th anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation.
The period is appropriate given that the so-called Watergate tapes contributed to Nixon's demise, and Hackman plays a surveillance expert whose bugging of a seemingly benign conversation
Coppola stated in the announcement, "I have never offered a new version of The Conversation, which is a film I have always been proud of
and I've never felt the need to improve." The director commended his "wonderful collaboration with its editor … and sound designer, Walter Murch, which reinforces my belief that cinema is a collaborative effort."
Another editor, Richard Chew, who later won an Oscar for editing Star Wars, was also listed, as he and Murch were nominated for The Conversation.