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Today's NYTimes Best 1176 film was Sydney Pollack's

Three Days of the Condor (1975)

with Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Max Von Sydow, Cliff Robertson and John Houseman.

This is a tight thriller about a low level CIA guy who gets caught out in the cold after his undercover office gets totally terminated.

Yeh. Well, it could happen, huh?

You believe it in this one.

What's disturbing about it is that it is still fresh. All the double dealing and shadow shit going on. It is still going on!

Great music by Dave Gruson seals the deal. Always in heat or way cool as the scene requires.

And the scenes. Wonderful locations. The old Laguardia Shuttle Terminal. Eastern Airlines, remember them? The Lackawanna Rail Terminal in Hoboken NJ where my Pocono Mountain train went when we went to NYC! What a thrill to see it and to go to NYC. Never mind that you can't get to where Redford was going from there. A small nit. The Twin Towers. Sad.

Pollack made some great films and I will do a festival about it when I am done with the queue of best films.

It is great to see Houseman and Cliff Robertson, an underappreciated actor if there ever was one. Or wasn't.

I will see it again at the Pollack Film Fest in 2009! And will give it a 4 out of Netflix5.