Everything That Dies, Some Day Comes Back

This is the second film in A lan J Pakula's excellent 'paranoia trilogy', coming three years after 'Klute' and two years before 'All The President's Men'.   An air of  dread and quiet menace is established at the outset in the pre-credit sequence in which a US Senator is assassinated, in the spectacular setting of Seattle's Space Needle. Trying to uncover the truth behind that assassination, some three years later, is Warren Beatty, playing a somewhat chaotic reporter.  Despite narrowly escaping death on three separate occasions, all very well staged in their different ways, and uncovering a plot to kill another US Senator, Beatty's character for no very good reason chooses not to involve any law enforcement agencies.  He may have something in his past to explain this aversion but we never get to learn what this might be or indeed anything much about him. It's an interesting aspect of Beatty's career that most of his best roles involve hi...