Hey folks, Harry here with the latest look at GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK from our friend in San Francisco. Missed the Esquire pan of AICN, damn, bet that was a laugh. This is one of my most hotly anticipated films of the fall. A film about a media giant with the backbone to stand up against a corrupt and evil Republican plot is something to take note of. Not that it's happening today, oh perish the thought.
Hello, Harry.
Big fan of the site, even if Esquire did pan you last month. :) I was
lucky enough to attend the premier of George Clooney's latest project
"Good Night and Good Luck" last Friday where he also stars alongside
David Stathairn, Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Bridges, and Patricia
Clarkson. The film is shot in gorgeous black and white and follows
the battle between Edward R. Murrow and Senator McCarthy during the
1950's. The film opened the Lincoln Film Society's 43rd Annual New
York Film Festival. There was a dinner at the Lincoln Center where we
saw the actors (Patricia Clarkson smiled at my wife's dress :) and
heard a short speech by Clooney, thanking his father who was a newsman
and applauding the courage of the real life reporters who stood up
against McCarthyism, a couple of who are still living and were also at
the dinner.
The premier was preceded by a short film from the Netherlands called
Stop! By Mathijs Geijskes which was very funny and well done with a
series of movie scene within a scene events (director calls cut,
camera pans back scene continues, another director calls cut and we
pan back further to see it's still shooting, and so on…) Imaginative
and a cute speech afterwards. Clooney then took the stage and
introduced the cast (Bridges and Downey were absent). The film was
brilliant. Courageous and well acted by Stathairn who will be getting
nominations for sure. Funny at times but always intense, the film is
important work. With that being said I'm sure it will do poorly at
the box office; no explosions, no nudity, nothing for the average
American. The Kent cigarette ad was particularly funny, especially
since it was a real ad, and the chain smoking going on screen made the
cigarette smoke a character of its own.
Afterwards was a party at the Tavern on the Green. The cast and a
handful of celebrities were there and Diane Reeves performed a song
from the soundtrack. Good times.
The highlight of the night was seeing my wife stand next to Rachel
Weisz and realize that my wife is more beautiful.
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