{"id":10868,"date":"2010-11-20T19:28:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T03:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/?p=10868"},"modified":"2010-11-21T20:33:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T04:33:07","slug":"all-the-presidents-men-alan-j-pakula-1976-usa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/?p=10868","title":{"rendered":"All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed at the AFI Fest Presented by Audi, Egyptian Theater, Hollywood, CA.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0 A special presentation of\u00a0 All the President’s Men<\/a><\/em>\u00a0 was part of the Cinema’s Legacy tribute, at the AFI Fest presented by Audi,\u00a0in which important writers, directors, producers and actors are asked to choose a film to screen, that in some way contributed to their career.\u00a0 Writer Aaron Sorkin introduced the film, and explained to the audience how this was considered a story of the “recent past,” since the Watergate Scandal broke just a few years prior to the release of the film.\u00a0 He equated it with his recent work on 2010’s\u00a0Social Network<\/em>, whereas the facts\u00a0regarding the\u00a0story of Facebook\u00a0occurred only a few years ago.<\/p>\n

After a break-in at the DNC Headquarters, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) believe this otherwise minor story to be newsworthy, when they discover that\u00a0all five burglars had ties to the CIA.\u00a0 After connecting a series of dots, Woodward and Bernstein realize it’s a much bigger story leading all the way to the Whitehouse and President Nixon’s committee\u00a0to re-elect.<\/p>\n

Their Exec Editor Ben Bradlee (Jason Robards) does not believe they have sufficient material for front page status and implores each to dig deeper.\u00a0 Although the two men have conflicting approaches to gaining confidences, they eventually learn to work as a team and compliment each other’s style.\u00a0 Berstein is direct and pushy, almost to the point of forcing himself into witnesses homes, while Woodward is more intuitive and soon secures the anonymous\u00a0help of an in-house operative known only as Deep Throat.\u00a0 As the reporters continue to follow new leads, the facts get uglier involving slush funds, covert ops, and U.S. Intelligence,\u00a0which eventually leads\u00a0to the first presidential resignation.<\/p>\n

As the two men are at odds with each other in the beginning we in fact see them working a noticeable distance apart in a vast news room.\u00a0 Over a period of time, as they learn to accept each other’s strengths, they physically are in closer proximity and we eventually see them within the confines of limited space.\u00a0 The film is fast-paced,\u00a0intriguing from beginning to end, and based on real events.\u00a0 It’s a political thriller\u00a0along the\u00a0same vein as others from the 1970’s, such as Three Days of the Condor<\/em>, Marathon Man<\/em> or The Boys from Brazil<\/em> – all of which I highly recommend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.\u00a0 Viewed at the AFI Fest Presented by Audi, Egyptian Theater, Hollywood, CA. \u00a0 A special presentation of\u00a0 All the President’s Men\u00a0 was part of the Cinema’s Legacy tribute, at the AFI Fest presented by Audi,\u00a0in which important writers, directors, producers and actors are asked to choose a film to screen, that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afi-filmfest-2010","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}