Good Night, and Good Luck.
George Clooney
2005 US (1st time; big screen)
Ed Murrow, Fred Friendly and other journalists seek to confront Senator McCarthy over several weeks of live TV broadcasts.
Riveting and profound; filled with atmospheric cigarette smoke, the camera observes with a kind of action-packed intensity stemming only from words and lingering close-ups. It is a well-paced, brilliantly-acted, convincing, and challenging depiction of the Media and television as a canvas on which to voice propaganda and political views--many shots show Murrow being filmed, with the footage of what is being filmed shown in the background; a complex structure of multi-angled reportage.


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