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<font size="4"><br>The Conversation</font>
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<br>video review by Jennifer M. Wood</font>
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<p>Though his filmography consists of more than 25 films throughout a 40-year career, Francis Ford Coppola’s acclaim as a director is most often attributed to his involvement with <i>The Godfather</i> films. This positive affiliation has served him well throughout the lows of his career (of which there have been a few), but it has also served to diminish the impact of some of his more important work. In 1974 particularly, Coppola’s <i>Godfather </i>success cost him a particularly high price. This was the year that <i>The Conversation</i>, a film that Coppola both wrote and directed, went largely unseen because of the coinciding release of <i>The Godfather Part II</i>. Though both films garnered Oscar nominations for Coppola, <i>The Godfather</i>’s triumph caused <i>The Conversation </i>to fade into a state of underappreciation.
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