Sentences with phrase «film about journalism»

Ideas aren't usually protagonists, except when it comes to films about journalism.

It's been a good few months for films about journalism, what with Spotlight winning the Oscar for Best Picture and Truth doing such a decent job of detailing the controversial decline and fall of veteran American news anchor Dan Rather.

One of the best films about journalism, how the big story is often buried in the back pages.

In part for that reason, I wouldn't rank it in the top tier of films about journalism — Spotlight, The Insider, All the President's Men — although it is solidly in the tier immediately below.

Not exact matches

Actor and writer Bob Odenkirk speaks to CNBC's Carl Quintanilla about his role in the new film «The Post» as the country's current conversation on journalism swirls.

Journalism is a quest for truth and, up to this point, few film journalists have had the courage to ask Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón the most important question about his...

Unsurprisingly, movies about journalism can often strike a dishonest chord with some viewers, mainly ones who have a natural distaste in films that almost deify the media, even when there's a fair share of evenhandedness.

The film talks about how the issue of modern slavery was first uncovered by the Sunday Times reporter George Arbuthnott, whose investigative journalism showed the true scale of the problem in Britain today.

It's a film about newspapers — one in particular, The Washington Post, and how real journalism used to be done.

As a portrait of modern journalism, though, it leaves quite a lot to be desired; this is the kind of film that has characters trade grandiose talking points about the ethics of reporting, but can't be bothered to show its reporter hero — still recovering from the damage factual inaccuracies did to his career — using a recording device during interviews.

A film about the vital importance of speaking truth to power needn't be so concerned with dressing up its own frightful truths, but Nobody Speak still compels as an opening statement on journalism's dubious future.

Spielberg widened the film's focus to encompass the story's other angles — Ellsberg's evolution, the Washington elite's lies about the war, and the tick - tock of daily - deadline journalism — but the rise of Mrs. Graham, in an era when the word Ms. hadn't yet been popularized and the concept of gender equality wasn't paid so much as lip service, remains a central theme.

The mission of the society is to further the growth of an informed film audience, to promote awareness of the Internet as a source of news and commentary, to provide a forum for the OFCS members to communicate and discuss ideas about journalism and cinema, and to encourage a high standard of journalism across the online media.

It won't break any records, but film buffs are interested in seeing what all the buzz is about, and the journalism drama has now made $ 12.3 million domestically.

At a time when the British press is haranguing about an injunction into a celebrity threesome, we can take heart in the fact that Laura Poitras» latest film shows the vital role that journalism still plays in shaping the narrative around major world events.

Chiefly though, Spotlight is a positive film about investigative journalism.

To which we can add the greatly in creased numbers of people who read and care about serious film journalism, as provided in Premiere and many other magazines and local newspapers.

Steven Spielberg's The Post, a drama about an historic flashpoint in American journalism, politics and feminism, is coming out in the midst of yet another flashpoint, and it's easy to watch this satisfying and well - crafted film as a beacon of hope.

Employing admirable restraint while focusing on the crack team of Boston reporters who exposed the pedophilic crimes being committed by members of the clergy, this riveting film ends up being about the awful abuse of power as much as about that last - gasp period before journalism shifted from being a conduit of reliable information into a circus act of celebrity reporters riding unicycles of distortion and deceit.

NEW JOURNALISM AND NEW NONFICTION By Eric Hynes Embedding himself in the production of hybrid film Kate Plays Christine provokes a writer to think about documentary's fresh affinities with a seminal journalistic movement

In terms of movies about journalists and journalism, Kill the Messenger is more on par with the 2007 film The Hunting Party than the industry standard All the President's Men.

But by focusing instead on the hard - nosed journalism that broke the story, McCarthy has crafted a bracingly powerful film about the institutions that hold sway in our society, the need for a free press to hold them accountable, and the pervasive sense of guilt that can get in the way.

In reply to Keith Stuart's blog over at The Guardian about the critical reception to Mirror's Edge, Joe puzzles over the role of the reviewer and whether comparisons between games and film journalism can ever be fairly raised.

Mari Rodríguez - Ichaso (b. 1943 Havana): After working in journalism, TV production and film for more than 30 years, Rodríguez - Ichaso wrote and directed the documentary Branded by Paradise, about women in Cuba, and Made in Cuba: Children of Paradise.