All the President's Men (1976)
Country: US
Technical: col 138m
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Cast: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Jack Warden, Hal Holbrook
Synopsis:
Journalists with the Washington Post discover through persistent investigation that responsibility for the break-in at Democratic Party headquarters goes all the way to the White House.
Review:
Impeccably detailed, absorbing examination of public and professional morality, doubtless serving a few egos along the way. Hard enough to follow to demand some detective work on the part of the viewer, the director's avowed intention, it completes his 'paranoid trilogy' and is an example of Hollywood film-making at its most engaged, with the very best resources put to work both in front of and behind the camera. However much the jump from impasse to 'it's a wrap' at the end via a few typed communiqués seems too abrupt, it is hard to imagine the same film being produced quite so uncompromisingly forty years later, or indeed a newspaper being able to commit comparable human resources to what is effectively police work. (Cf. Spotlight, set in Boston in the early 2000s.)
Country: US
Technical: col 138m
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Cast: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Jack Warden, Hal Holbrook
Synopsis:
Journalists with the Washington Post discover through persistent investigation that responsibility for the break-in at Democratic Party headquarters goes all the way to the White House.
Review:
Impeccably detailed, absorbing examination of public and professional morality, doubtless serving a few egos along the way. Hard enough to follow to demand some detective work on the part of the viewer, the director's avowed intention, it completes his 'paranoid trilogy' and is an example of Hollywood film-making at its most engaged, with the very best resources put to work both in front of and behind the camera. However much the jump from impasse to 'it's a wrap' at the end via a few typed communiqués seems too abrupt, it is hard to imagine the same film being produced quite so uncompromisingly forty years later, or indeed a newspaper being able to commit comparable human resources to what is effectively police work. (Cf. Spotlight, set in Boston in the early 2000s.)
Country: US
Technical: col 138m
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Cast: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Jack Warden, Hal Holbrook
Synopsis:
Journalists with the Washington Post discover through persistent investigation that responsibility for the break-in at Democratic Party headquarters goes all the way to the White House.
Review:
Impeccably detailed, absorbing examination of public and professional morality, doubtless serving a few egos along the way. Hard enough to follow to demand some detective work on the part of the viewer, the director's avowed intention, it completes his 'paranoid trilogy' and is an example of Hollywood film-making at its most engaged, with the very best resources put to work both in front of and behind the camera. However much the jump from impasse to 'it's a wrap' at the end via a few typed communiqués seems too abrupt, it is hard to imagine the same film being produced quite so uncompromisingly forty years later, or indeed a newspaper being able to commit comparable human resources to what is effectively police work. (Cf. Spotlight, set in Boston in the early 2000s.)