Top Ten Newspaper Movies

23Apr09

Bănănăind pe internet, am găsit aici, acest top 10 făcut de Time şi încercam să imi dau seama câte filme am reuşit sa văd din cele prezente mai jos, dar se pare că nu sunt prea multe la număr.

10. It Happened One Night, 1934 – Nu

“The film was remade as a Hollywood musical in the ’50s and several times — faithfully but without credit — as a Bollywood musical.”

9. His Girl Friday, 1940 – Nu

“Fast-fast and funny-funny, the film moves with a pickpocket’s grace and the morals of a…wait, journalists don’t have morals.”

8. Citizen Kane, 1941 – Nu

“A two-hour demonstration that absolute wealth corrupts fascinatingly, Kane was a box-office flop, in no small part because Hearst exercised his muscle to suppress and then condemn it.”

7. Ace in the Hole, 1951 – Nu

“Ace in the Hole (a great title) casts blame not just on Chuck but on the whole journalistic process: on those who gather and manipulate the news, those who publish it, and those who read all about it.”

6. Sweet Smell of Success, 1957 – Nu îmi aduc aminte..

“Odets stewed the characters in venom and peppered the dialogue with wit so acute and sarcastic that, a half-century later, viewers’ heads swim in wonder and revulsion. No one’s nice here; there are only the wicked and the weak.”

5. All The President’s Men, 1976 – Văzut, sau aşa cred…

“William Goldman’s script captured the exhausting leg work and the connect-the-dots inspirations that nailed a Presidential conspiracy; and director Alan J. Pakula created a tone both bustling and ominous. Here was a thriller where the good guys work on phones and typewriters, and the bad guys are trying to kidnap with the Constitution.”

4. Superman, 1978 – da, da, da, văzut!

“Truth, justice and the American way: that was the motto for Superman and Woodward-Bernstein.”

3. Welcome to Sarajevo, 1997 – I guess so..

“In Michael Winterbottom’s fiction film with a documentary feel, a British reporter (Stephen Dillane), a veteran eyewitness to many such atrocities, determines to adopt a Bosnian child. It seems one of the two options available to reporters at war: a kind gesture or, more futile but more therapeutic, a scream.”

2.  State of Play, 2003 – Nope

“Among the added perks in the BBC version: Polly Walker, world’s most desirable woman, as the politician’s estranged wife, and Bill Nighy, purring sulfur as the paper’s harried editor. This twisty mystery is also a hymn to old-fashioned journalism — the kind where the drudgery of digging for a story, not spitballing on a blog, wins acclaim, readers and self-respect.”

1. Zodiac, 2007  – Nope

“Director David Fincher is as obsessive as Graysmith; the movie is a mosaic of tiny details, smudged memories and a journalist’s intuition. Put together, the pieces form the image of a killer — and a larger portrait of the lone, dogged print reporter as hero. Take note, please, allof you thinking of canceling your subscription to your local paper.”

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