Walter Murch: "The Conversation" with Terry Diggs on his film's 40th Anniversary
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Date: 2015-11-17

Cinephile & UC Hastings Law Professor Terry Kay Diggs talks with Academy Award winning director Walter Murch.  The acclaimed film director worked closely with Francis Ford Coppola on this prescient film to show us 40 years ago exactly how the loss of privacy will look. . . 

Released in 1974, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation, won international awards for its writing and technological effects. An arresting thriller, The Conversation offers a still-unparalleled disquisition on the reasonable expectation of privacy.

Forty years later, we live in Coppola’s world, consumed again by questions of who is watching, reading, listening, or monitoring – tottering through the coincidence of astounding events: a Supreme Court once again prepared to redefine the Fourth Amendment (United States v. Jones, “the G.P.S. case”); a tech industry hawking Google Glass and compiling Facebook-based dossiers; the unchecked government surveillance exposed by Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning.

 This talk recorded at UC Hastings in San Francisco in November 2014. Professor Diggs has since been sidelined with a devastating brain tumor, and this was perhaps her final public appearance,  and one of the highlights of her academic career.

Building on a background as a lawyer, writer and critical theorist, the late Terry Diggs developed Film-Law-Social Conflict, an educational seminar series she began teaching in the early 1990s, she was a brilliant scholar, critic and educator before passing away in February 2016. 

More info on this conference organized by Diggs is here : http://sites.uchastings.edu/theconver...