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All the President's Men (1976)
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
influenced Spotlight (2015)
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Spotlight harks back to paranoid ’70s thrillers in its attempt to tell the story, with wintry visuals straight out of Alan J. ( All the President’s Men ) Pakula’s playbook and the kind of spare and beautifully loaded dialogue—courtesy of Josh Singer and director Tom McCarthy—that Robert Towne used to specialize in.
Spotlight, whose workplace rhythms and quiet intensity recalls another real-life news procedural, Alan J. Pakula's 1976 Watergate classic All the President's Men, asks in a very real way the question that superhero movies make mythic: will I use the power given to me for good or evil?
Those efforts now play out in this terrific film that will likely remind many a viewer -- if old enough or a big film fan -- of "All the President's Men" from back in 1976 regarding the Washington Post's investigation of Watergate.
“Spotlight” will inevitably be compared with the 1976 Hollywood landmark “All the President’s Men,” so let’s get the comparisons out of the way in order to appreciate this film on its own terms.
The obvious precedent for Spotlight —both as a movie and as a culturally relevant Oscar contender—is All the President's Men , but while McCarthy falls short of that standard in dread-soaked atmosphere, he proves to be an ace reporter in his own right.
The Globe staff is unenthused, particularly deputy managing editor Ben Bradlee Jr. (John Slattery) - son of the legendary editor of the Washington Post, whose presence is just one of many echoes of that other stellar newspaper movie, "All the President's Men."
The Report (2019)
Directed by Scott Z. Burns
influenced by Spotlight (2015)
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A rejoinder of sorts to Kathryn Bigelow’s superior “Zero Dark Thirty,” which was widely misinterpreted by some as condoning torture, “The Report” has clearly been conceived in the mold of pictures like “All the President’s Men,” “Zodiac” and “Spotlight,” all of which made gripping cinema out of the daily drudgery of investigative work.
Films like "Spotlight" and "All the President’s Men" have shown that investigating injustice can be translated into compelling filmmaking.
The Report, which premiered at the festival on Saturday, has drawn comparisons to Spotlight, the 2015 best-picture winner about diligent Boston Globe reporters uncovering decades of sexual abuse and covers-up within the Archdiocese of Boston.
He keeps his powder dry and waits until nearly the end to let the indignation really rip with a performance that somewhat recalls Mark Ruffalo in Spotlight , another film that pays tribute to the dull, dogged, due process of truth telling.
Many of the scenes feel reminiscent of Traffic or Spotlight , and blending the two vibes makes this one far from boring.
Baring a few questionable artistic choices where it uses a lot of time-hopping and yellow drenched flashbacks in a dizzying attempt to put its entire context into perspective, The Report carries the same energy that Alex Gibney’s Taxi to the Dark Side possessed with the investigative power of Spotlight and All the President’s Men.
This Sundance premiere will inspire comparisons to Spotlight and The Post — not to mention The Report , which also debuted in Park City.
It shares a lot of DNA with recent awards season darlings like Spotlight and The Post but, just like those films, this is a movie that couldn’t be more timely in communicating the power and importance of legitimate, investigative journalism.
Official Secrets is akin to other stellar films of this same genre like Spotlight and All the President’s Men.
Unfortunately, while Gun’s story is certainly worth telling and this is a well-intentioned, solid film with fine work from Knightley, “Official Secrets” is too heavy-handed and drab, and falls far short of procedural thrillers such as “All the President’s Men” and “Spotlight” and “The Post” or broadly entertaining whistleblower stories such as “Erin Brockovich.”
Coming off of the pulse-pounding military suspenser Eye in the Sky, and understandably feeling the need to distinguish his film from a stolid BBC teledrama, Hood works to thicken the intrigue of his whistleblower story with swaths of a wonky journalistic tale (think Spotlight) and a legal crusade (think On the Basis of Sex).
This is no Spotlight (2015) or The Post (2017).
The true story of the Boston Globe’s investigation into child abuse in the Catholic Church is a winningly old-fashioned newsroom depiction in the vein of All the President’s Men or His Girl Friday.
"Spotlight" is a great newspaper movie of the old-school model, calling up not only obvious comparisons with " All the President's Men " and " Zodiac ," two movies with similar devotion to the sometimes crushingly boring gumshoe part of reportage, but also Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell shouting into adjacent phones in "His Girl Friday."
From “The Front Page” and “His Girl Friday” to “All the President’s Men” and “The Paper,” America has been in love with newspaper movies.
Many truly great movies — "Citizen Kane," Howard Hawks' "His Girl Friday," David Fincher's "Zodiac" — involve newspapers.
Fourth-estate-centric films tend to focus on the glamorous or dangerous world events their protagonists are covering ( The Parallax View , The Year of Living Dangerously , All the President’s Men with its Deep Throat intrigue), or satirize the sensationalism of a corrupt media ( Ace in the Hole , Network ), or throw in a workplace romance just to glory in zingy reporters’ banter ( His Girl Friday , Broadcast News ).
En el filme, McCarthy hace un énfasis de carácter nostálgico y casi fetichista en el periodismo físico, el material tangible: papel, pluma, tinta, cuadernos, almanaques, hemerotecas y repisas llenan las escenas de En primera plana de una riqueza analógica reminiscente de otros grandes hitos del cine y periodismo estadunidense como All the President’s Men (Pakula, 1976), The Front Page (Wilder, 1974) o el clásico Park Row (1953) del gran Samuel Fuller, filmes que, además, comparten una visión candorosa sobre la ética periodística, un trabajo que en la más valiente de sus facetas, es capaz de obviar intereses y convertirse en un acto de profesional humanismo, haciéndonos saber lo que no sabemos, pero si llegar a la veracidad de un crimen tan rampante toma su tiempo, aun más tiempo tardará en llegar el castigo, sobre todo para los dueños del mismo.
En el filme, McCarthy hace un énfasis de carácter nostálgico y casi fetichista en el periodismo físico, el material tangible: papel, pluma, tinta, cuadernos, almanaques, hemerotecas y repisas llenan las escenas de En primera plana de una riqueza analógica reminiscente de otros grandes hitos del cine y periodismo estadunidense como All the President’s Men (Pakula, 1976), The Front Page (Wilder, 1974) o el clásico Park Row (1953) del gran Samuel Fuller, filmes que, además, comparten una visión candorosa sobre la ética periodística, un trabajo que en la más valiente de sus facetas, es capaz de obviar intereses y convertirse en un acto de profesional humanismo, haciéndonos saber lo que no sabemos, pero si llegar a la veracidad de un crimen tan rampante toma su tiempo, aun más tiempo tardará en llegar el castigo, sobre todo para los dueños del mismo.
It reminds you of Tom McCarthy’s very similar movie Spotlight .
In that respect, Lindholm's film is reminiscent of Tom McCarthy's Spotlight (2015), a film about a group of journalists who, while researching sexual scandals in the church, face the institutional negation that prompts people to keep their mouth shut.
Such films include the famous (All the President’s Men, 1974) and the not so famous (Call Northside 777, 1948).
Despite not winning the main award, the Academy showed they had good intentions by nominating Taxi Driver in four categories - that both All the President's Men and Network also lost out to eventual winner Rocky shows that, ultimately, it never really stood a chance.
Fourth-estate-centric films tend to focus on the glamorous or dangerous world events their protagonists are covering ( The Parallax View , The Year of Living Dangerously , All the President’s Men with its Deep Throat intrigue), or satirize the sensationalism of a corrupt media ( Ace in the Hole , Network ), or throw in a workplace romance just to glory in zingy reporters’ banter ( His Girl Friday , Broadcast News ).
Entre otros títulos destacan El Ciudadano Kane (1941), El año que vivimos en peligro (1983), Frost-Nixon (2008), Network (1976), Primera plana (1974), Buenas noches , buena suerte (2005), Todos los hombres del Presidente (1976), etc.
One brief interview, in which Pfeiffer questions an accused priest, recalls the powerful 2006 documentary, Deliver Us from Evil .
Like Fox Searchlight’s “Little Miss Sunshine,” Tom McCarthy’s domestic drama combines caricature and farce.
A quirky dramedy in the Juno/Little Miss Sunshine mode, but lacking the latters vibrant ensemble and the formers snappy patter, Win Win is indie with the edges sanded down completely.
Unfortunately, McCarthy's pursuit of this happy ending adds a "Little Miss Sunshine" glibness, right down to the family's deadpan daughter played by Clare Foley, to this otherwise sincere effort.
Reality is always nipping at the narrative’s heels, reminding us that hard situations don’t have easy answers, even if we’re watching a movie that is able to soften some of the edges with well-timed comedy and a gentle sense of quirkiness that doesn’t become distracting, as it does so often in indie dramedies of this sort (I’m thinking specifically of the prototypical Little Miss Sunshine and all its carefully arranged quirky outrages).
Think Napoleon Dynamite and Little Miss Sunshine.
Good examples include Sideways, Garden State, Juno, and Little Miss Sunshine.
New talent on the block Quentin Tarantino's second feature won him the coveted Palme d'Or at Cannes - a success he failed to match back on home turf; while he won an Original Screenplay Oscar, Pulp Fiction got beat by Forrest Gump.
(It's reminiscent of the row of mission control guys in " Apollo 13 ," whipping out their slide rules as one, thereby almost single-handedly expanding the concept of heroism.)
Spotlight has been compared to Alan J Pakula's Watergate film All the President's Men but there is no "Deep Throat" here.
The Catholic Church and its infamous pedophile clerics go under the microscope of a crack reporting team in "Spotlight," a detail-oriented gem that's right up there with the brilliant newspaper-movie likes of "All the President's Men" and "Absence of Malice."
There are the occasional outliers—Shattered Glass (the story of fabulist former-New Republic associate editor Stephen Glass, starring Hayden Christensen)—but beyond the depths of television and documentaries, like the fifth season of The Wire (where Tom McCarthy, the director of Spotlight, played the resident fabulist journalist), and Laura Poitras’ gripping documentary on Edward Snowden, Citizenfour , pop culture is invested in portraying ink-stained wretches as noble fighters for the truth.
Shattered Glass is still the best movie about journalists I’ve ever seen, but Spotlight is definitely the best movie about journalism.
En los últimos 15 años el cine y la televisión estadounidenses nos han dado un par de grandes retratos de periodistas fraudulentos: la magnífica Shattered Glass, de Billy Ray, y la quinta temporada de The Wire, cuya trama incluye a un reportero arribista, holgazán y mentiroso, interpretado por el propio McCarthy.
Of all the Oscar blows dealt to Martin Scorsese over the decades, none landed harder than Raging Bull's losing out to Robert Redford's weepie Ordinary People, an oversight many consider one of the Academy's most infamous.
I kept thinking about how it would feel to watch this and Michael Mann’s The Insider back to back — The Insider manages to be wonderfully sensuous, meditative, and gorgeous to look at, and it manages to bring home the emotional truth of its’ characters’ hard work and heroism more powerfully than this film does.
The seminal films of this ilk such as All the President’s Men and The Insider – both films are less the revelations of the institutional and corporate greed their characters uncover; instead they focus on the individual trials of the journalists (or sources) tasked with doing whatever it takes to bring their story to the public.
One of the films that kickstarted the New Hollywood Cinema, The Graduate may have won director Mike Nichols an Oscar, but ultimately lost out to Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the night.
Like John Wayne’s racist cowboy in “The Searchers,” Robby is a well-intentioned representative of old world thinking attempting to find his place in a new terrain.