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Frost/Nixon: Original Watergate Interviews Video footnotes to a new movie? Yep. A fascinating corollary to the film with Frank Langella as Richard Nixon and Michael Sheen as David Frost, here's the 1977 show with the real stars. There's no gotcha moment, just the raw drama of a fallen monarch in closeup...
...keys to Frost/Nixon is the interplay between Frank Langella and Michael Sheen. What made you believe no other actors could play the roles? Henrique Amaral, LONDON...
...good example of the pleasures of the star revival is the new production of A Man for All Seasons, with Frank Langella doing the honors as Sir Thomas More, the chancellor to King Henry VIII who went to death rather than betray his conscience by blessing the king's divorce and his break with the Church of Rome. Langella's interpretation has drawn some criticism, suprisingly, for being too saintly and hammy - surprising because what stood out for me in Langella's performance was how bracingly human it is. As the rebellious counselor, Langella is a man of stoic determination...
...named best picture in four of the groups, There Will Be Blood in L.A. George Clooney won two best actor awards for playing a lawyer at crisis point in Michael Clayton; Daniel Day-Lewis a pair for his oil mogul in There Will Be Blood; and, in Boston, Frank Langella won the prize for playing an aged novelist in Starting Out in the Evening. Three groups selected Julie Christie as best actress - she's an Alzheimer's patient in the Canadian film Away From Her - and two liked Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf in La Vie en rose...
...exception to that rule is the sleek and smoothly menacing Frank Langella, playing the founder and chairman of CBS, William Paley. It is quite wonderful to watch Langella slowly, slowly slip off his velvet gloves to reveal the mailed fists of media proprietorship. In those passages the movie achieves the melodramatic intensity--and a certain sophistication about the uses and abuses of power--that is nowhere else evident...