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 Rating:  - A GREAT movie. Thank you George Clooney for making thisI love the black and white. I will forever respect George Clooney for funding, producing and directing a movie that centers on a TRUE American hero. A time when news and entertainment were separate divisions on network TV and their were great and courageous journalists. Not the "brainless", talking head, "soap opera" stars of TV. Great, great acting and done in a realistic, adult way, where we can "feel" the tension and think to ourselves about what would we do if we were in the late great Edward R. Murrow's shows or the head of the CBS news department. He lets the story be the star and use the great subtlety of black and white and the actors and their interactions be the star. Edward R. Murrow should be remembered with pride as an American who whose responsibility he felt to other American's who depended on him to be factual, truthful and present the truth was greater than his personal ambition. What a rare trait in this "I, I, I" world. Jon Rating: - Clooney has chopsGeorge Clooney has to be, if not the most talented guy in Hollywood, certainly the luckiest. A former Sexiest Man Alive, according to People magazine, scion of a wealthy show business clan, a tv star, a movie star, and now a successful director. His first film, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, on wacky tv game show host Chuck Barris's fantasies, was a sober look at a mentally disturbed man, much better than highly lauded screenwriter and director Paul Schrader's similar Auto Focus, on tv star Bob Crane's descent into pornography. But, we've all seen this before- a big star thinks he can make films, makes a first film that is lauded- think Kevin Costner, Mel Gibson, Clint Eastwood, and on and on, and then starts pumping out sheer dreck. Well, scratch that with Clooney, who also wrote the film with his producer Grant Heslov. His latest film, Good Night, And Good Luck, which tracked CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow's 1953-1954 battle with Senator Joseph McCarthy, whom he belittles backhandedly as `the Junior Senator from Wisconsin', and his own network, deserved all the accolades it got in its Academy Award nomination. Of course, its nomination was for its political stance, and the relevance to the civil and human rights abuses going on today, in the failed War On Terror, but just because it got recognized for the wrong reasons does not mean it's not a worthy film. What separates Clooney, in his first two films, from the above named actors, is that he is simply not content to tell a straightforward ... Read More Rating: - More Hollywood Rewriting of HistoryAlthough this movie was entertaining, it is a completely slanted version of history. America is in the dire condition it is in today because the media trashed, slandered and libeled the great Senator Joseph McCarthy and got away with it. America is in the grip of global organized crime based on zionist philosophy and centered in Israel. If senator McCarthy had been able to rid the gov't of treasonous zionist criminals, the Kennedy's would never have been assassinated, and many atrocities like the Iraq war would not have become reality. Rating: - Good productPurchased this DVD as a gift for my husband. We have watched it twice and it is good quality. Would purchase from this vendor again. Rating: - A DISTILLATION OF PURE McCARTHYISM and ITS ENEMIES**WARNING** This review is full of plot spoilers! GOODNIGHT AND GOOD LUCK follows veteran CBS-TV journalist Edward R. Murrow from 1953, when he took the Air Force to task for denying a soldier a security clearance based on secret evidence and no counsel; to 1958 when he left CBS. Along the way Murrow and staff go after Joseph McCarthy and his accusations, but allow McCarthy time to respond on the air. McCarthy sent a letter which in no way denied anything CBS-TV or Murrow had reported, but laid on more and more name-calling. Murrow suffered this with grace and soon therafter, Congress investigated Senator McCarthy. But there was a price to pay. Bill Paley, head of the network (the whole corporation, in fact), advised against airing the McCarthy episode, and the show's sponsor, ALCOA, dropped the show after the McCarthy episode aired. The vehicle for such investigation, Murrow's show SEE IT NOW, wound up in the Sunday cellar of broadcasting and increasingly Murrow had to deal with trivialities like interviewing Liberace. About the same time in 1958 that Murray was receiving professional accolades on his career, Mr. Paley let him go, or did not stop his trying to go, ostensibly for budgetary concerns. This is a low-key but high-impact behind-the-scenes drama that plays out in semi-documentary style, using black and white and incorporating some of the actual shows and government hearings, which of course are digitally scrubbed copies of the original film or kinescope. ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: |
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