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Jun 27, 2024 · Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger. Not Rated. Documentary. Directed by David Hinton. “Made in England” is an essay film about the artists whose passion and cinematography ...
- 6 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
‘Sing Sing’ This moving drama directed by Greg Kwedar...
- 6 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
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4 days ago · ‘Sing Sing’ This moving drama directed by Greg Kwedar follows Divine G (Colman Domingo) and Divine Eye (Clarence Maclin, a formerly incarcerated newcomer) as they clash and come together in ...
- Almost Famous
- The Parallax View
- Frost/Nixon
- Kill The Messenger
- Zodiac
- Under Fire
- Salvador
- His Girl Friday
- Live from Baghdad
- State of Play
Teenager William Miller tricks Rolling Stone into believing he’s a veteran rock writerand, after some advice from legendary music writer Lester Bangs, he hits the road with a band called Stillwater and a groupie (sorry, I mean “band-aid”) named Penny Lane — and his career is born. Loosely based on the experience of writer and director Cameron Crowe...
Two years before he directed “All the President’s Men,” Alan J. Pakula released this thriller about a reporter, played by Warren Beatty, investigating a secret organization that specializes in political assassination. Somehow, this movie has gotten better with time.
A fictional look back at the interviews British journalist David Frost didwith disgraced former President Richard Nixon after Watergate. Frost’s final session with Nixon is a masterclass in interviewing.
Based on a true story, this is the film about the late San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb and his series about CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking. Often overlooked when talking about great films about journalism.
No one knows the case of San Francisco’s Zodiac serial killerbetter than Robert Graysmith, a former cartoonist and true crime author who spent 13 years and wrote two books (and saw his marriage end in divorce) over the case. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Graysmith in this David Fincher thriller.
Set during the last days of the Nicaraguan Revolution in the late 1970s, this filmis based on the murder of ABC reporter Bill Stewart and his translator in 1979. Its all-star cast features great performances from Nick Nolte and Gene Hackman.
There was a time when actors James Woods and Jim Belushi and director Oliver Stone were all really good. They all came together for this better-than-you-think film,which focuses on a hard-drinking and drug-using photojournalist played by Woods, who was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.
I briefly considered putting “The Philadelphia Story” in this slot, but went with this screwball comedystarring Cary Grant (as a newspaper editor) and Rosalind Russell (as his ace reporter) because it’s more about “journalism” and it’s just, well, better.
This made-for-TV HBO movieshows the pivotal moment in CNN history when the network was in Iraq for the start of the Persian Gulf War in 1991. It showed the power of a 24-hour news network. Actor Michael Keaton (who, by the way, is in three of the movies on this list) is superb as CNN producer Robert Wiener.
Russell Crowe plays a journalist who looks into the suspicious deathof a congressman’s lover. The cast is ridiculous: Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Jason Bateman, Robin Wright and Jeff Daniels.
Verified Audience. André Bazin Radio-Cinéma-Télévision. This film is the most intelligent homage one can make to Harold Lloyd and to the great school of American comedy. Full Review | Jun 12,...
Mad Wednesday begins with the last reel of Lloyd’s 1925 classic The Freshman, and takes the ’20s football hero from Calvin Collidge’s administration up to Harry Truman’s. Andrew Sarris, Village Voice, October 15, 1979. (after New York Festival retrospective showing) Note by Clive Denton.
Mad Wednesday. Let go from his job, unmarried and with little money in his pocket, Harold Diddlebock (Harold Lloyd) needs a life makeover. He receives one thanks to a powerful drink served by a...
- Comedy
