HUMANITIES INQUIRY FILM FESTIVAL
BREAKING NEWS FILM FESTIVAL 2004
Monday, March 5 - Thursday, March 8, 2004
7 p.m. nightly.
The Hat Factory Film Studios, 310 Madison Avenue South (the old
Bainbridge Cleaners building)
Free!
Info: BIAHC 206-842-7901 or biahc@artshum.org
After a month of discussions and lectures on tough media topics,
you deserve some fun! Bring a take-out dinner or enjoy free popcorn
while watching four classic films that deal with journalism and
the news media business:
Mon. April 5, 2004: His Girl Friday (1940)
a screwball comedy starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, and Ralph
Bellamy. Directed by Howard Hanks. Unrated.
Tue. April 6, 2004: Ace in the Hole (1969)
Award-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler took to the streets
of Chicago with a film crew to record how the city prepared for
the 1968 Democratic Convention, then wove this material into a narrative
about a TV news cameraman whose ability to observe impartially the
events around him is challenged by the violence of the riots. Unrated.
Wed. April 7, 2004: All the Presidents' Men (1976)
Director Alan J. Pakula's film version of journalists Bob Woodward's
and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their Watergate investigation.
Rated PG.
Thur. April 8, 2004: Absence of Malice (1981)
A naive, eager-beaver young reporter (Sally Field) is misled by
a federal investigator into fingering the wrong man (Paul Newman)
in the murder of a longshoreman's union official. Directed by Sidney
Pollack. Rated PG.
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All the Presidents' Men
LINKS:
Americans rank journalists down there with used car salesmen and
lawyers. So why do we keep making movies about them? By Richard
B. Woodward, BostonGlobe.com. 1/11/2004.
Hollywood
Reporter >>
When the Front Page Meets the Big Screen. Hollywood is not
a reliable moral arbitrator of anything, so it's not surprising
that when it holds a mirror up to journalism, Shattered Glass
is the result. By Mark Bowden. Atlantic Monthly,
March 2004.
Bowden
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