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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Seven Days in May, it turns Cold War nuclear policy into a lean, claustrophobic institutional thriller, sustained by urgent debate, procedural detail, and dread rather than action spectacle.
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Why this pick
Frankenheimer’s equally sharp paranoid thriller shares the tense 1960s political atmosphere, controlled visual style, and mounting fear that democratic institutions can be manipulated from within.
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Why this pick
Its pressure-cooker Cold War confrontation has the same sober military authenticity and escalating sense that command decisions, pride, and ideology can lead to catastrophe.
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Why this pick
This is a colder, more disorienting evolution of the political-paranoia mode: an investigator moves through impersonal systems, with Pakula’s restrained pacing and ominous visual design.
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Why this pick
Costa-Gavras delivers a propulsive political thriller about power closing ranks, combining procedural momentum with the same righteous alarm over threats to democratic order.
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01 / THE STORY
The story is set in the early 1970s, ten years in the future at the time of the film's 1964 release, and the Cold War is still a problem (in the 1962 book, the setting was May 1974 after a stalemated war in Iran). U.S. President Jordan Lyman has recently signed a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union, and the subsequent ratification by the U.S. Senate has produced a wave of dissatisfaction, especially among Lyman's opposition and the military, who believe the Soviets cannot be trusted.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Col. Martin 'Jiggs' Casey
Sen. Raymond Clark
Col. William 'Mutt' Henderson
Esther Townsend
Christopher Todd
Horace - White House Physician
Gen. Diefenbach
Sen. Frederick Prentice
