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Conspiratorial thinking has migrated from the margins toward one of the defining moods of our present—not merely the belief in a single grand secret plot but an ambient suspicion that the visible world is organized by forces beyond ordinary perception. Hollywood especially has made this suspicion feel so natural (amusing, even) that we often overlook how many of its most gripping pictures, far beyond the paranoid thriller canon, rely on the seductive notion that the world’s complexities ultimately yield to a secret, meticulously orchestrated logic. “It’s All a BIG Conspiracy” will put this idea under a magnifying glass with a program of 70mm films basking in the allure of collusion as one of Hollywood’s most pliable and captivating storytelling maneuvers. Amplified by the grandeur of wide-gauge imagery and enormous soundscapes, these films will plunge us into worlds immersive enough to disarm our skeptical distance, yet detailed enough to reward near-forensic scrutiny. From conniving in Chicago and Gotham City to palace intrigue both Shakespearean and interstellar, from postwar cultic doctrine and political surveillance to corporate cover-ups, spycraft, and systemic violence embedded within Hollywood and beyond, this July Fourth week invites you to peer beneath narratives whose foreboding webs—both conspicuous and clandestine—are threaded into American consciousness itself… or simply surrender to the 5-perf spectacle.