{"id":4191,"date":"2009-04-22T01:29:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T09:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=4191"},"modified":"2009-04-28T08:13:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T16:13:31","slug":"all-the-presidents-men-alan-j-pakula-1976-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=4191","title":{"rendered":"All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Byron Potau<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed on DVD.<\/p>\n

\"\"With another Nixon\/Watergate film, Frost\/Nixon, being released to DVD this week, it might not be a bad idea to revisit Alan J. Pakula\u2019s classic film, All the President\u2019s Men<\/a><\/em>, based on\u00a0 reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward\u2019s account of their investigation into the Watergate burglary.<\/p>\n

The film, released a mere two years after President Nixon\u2019s resignation, follows the two Washington Post reporters Woodward (Robert Redford) and Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) from the time of the burglary.\u00a0 They scribble down notes, scrounge for information, push their way into people\u2019s offices and homes, and question people who don\u2019t want to answer any questions.\u00a0 Woodward\u2019s deep background source, referred to as Deep Throat (Hal Holbrook), meets him secretly at night in an empty parking garage and keeps the investigation headed in the right direction.\u00a0 They piece their information together, one name leading to another until they finally link the burglary to the White House.<\/p>\n

Pakula\u2019s film, based on what is probably the most famous investigative journalism in history, is amazingly suspenseful and thrilling, especially considering we already know the ending.\u00a0 He dwells on the small details, names that lead to other names, and keeps up the tension in the scene as the reporters work to confirm their story from people who won\u2019t talk to them.\u00a0 We feel the danger, lurking and unseen for the reporters and the people they question.\u00a0 We also see the bustle of the news room, and never feel that our reporters are overreacting to anything, but that their enthusiasm is real.\u00a0 A real strength of the film is its stellar acting from top to bottom. On the newsroom side of the cast, Redford and Hoffman are excellent in their roles as are Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, and Jason Robards Jr. in his Oscar winning performance as Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee.\u00a0 Actors Hal Holbrook as Deep Throat, and Supporting Actress nominee Jane Alexander as a bookkeeper reluctant to answer any questions are also excellent.\u00a0 Credit must also go to William Goldman for his Oscar winning screenplay, and Robert L. Wolfe\u2019s splendid Oscar nominated film editing.\u00a0 This film is a real joy to watch as everyone involved seems to be at the top of their game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Byron Potau.\u00a0 Viewed on DVD. With another Nixon\/Watergate film, Frost\/Nixon, being released to DVD this week, it might not be a bad idea to revisit Alan J. Pakula\u2019s classic film, All the President\u2019s Men, based on\u00a0 reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward\u2019s account of their investigation into the Watergate burglary. The film, released […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}