Frost/Nixon is the story of former president Richard Nixon and his relationship with television personality David Frost. What started as a play, is now a motion picture. Check back for more news on the film set to release on December 25...
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Frost/Nixon is the story of former president Richard Nixon and his relationship with television personality David Frost. What started as a play, is now a motion picture. Check back for more news on the film set to release on December 25, 2008.
David Frost (Michael Sheen) gives Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) the cold shoulder in Frost/Nixon . TV did what the U.S. government failed to do By Ed Rampell After United States President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for the crimes he’d committed as part of the Watergate scandal I remember hoping that the phlebitis Tricky Dick contracted upon leaving the White House would kill him. Much to my bitter disappointment, it didn’t – but now, some 30-odd years later Americans have their... Read Full Story
Release Date: 26 December 2008 (Australia)
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Run Time: 2 hr 2 min
Synopsis:
For three years after being forced from office, Richard Nixon remained silent. But in the summer of 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting... Read Full Story
Hot Rebecca Hall as Caroline Cushing in Frost/Nixon Rebecca Hall Michael Sheen as David Frost and Frank Langella as Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon Sam Rockwell as James Reston, Jr., Oliver Platt as Bob Zelnick and Matthew Macfadyen as John Birt in Frost/Nixon # Cast: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Rebecca Hall, Toby Jones, Matthew MacFadyen, Oliver Platt, Sam Rockwell # Director: Ron Howard In 1977, three years after the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency, Richard Nixon... Read Full Story
Frost/Nixon is the latest film in the illustrious career of actor / director Ron Howard . Howard is slowly moving his way top the elite directors in Hollywood , but I really think he could have done more with such a powerful story. In my mind, this was an Oscar contender for picture of the year, but the film only showed flashes of brilliance that was not sustained throughout.
Frost/Nixon Film Poster
Frost/Nixon is a retelling of the true story behind a series of television interviews... Read Full Story
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association have spoken, and " The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, " " Frost/Nixon " and " Doubt " lead the pack of Golden Globes nominations with 5 each.
The critically acclaimed British film " Slumdog Millionaire ," based on Vikas Swarup's book "Q and A" and featuring a soundtrack by Bollywood's A. R. Rahman and M.I.A. , was nominated for Best Motion Picture Drama ( iTunes has a page full of goodies devoted to the film), along with " Button ," " Frost... Read Full Story
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: This blog was completed before the final results of the US Presidential Election were announced. Congratulations to the new President - Barack Obama. Hopefully TV will continue to be good to him. By Christine Alexiou As Americans and much of the world prepare to be glued to their TVs waiting for the results of the US Presidential Election - I've just come back from a play about one of the most notorious and disgraced Presidents in recent history – Richard Nixon. Frost... Read Full Story
FROST/NIXON *** Torn from the pages of history, “Frost/Nixon” tells the story behind the interview between British talk-show host David Frost (Michael Sheen) and former U.S. President Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) after the Watergate scandal. Frost pushes hard to secure the interview, offering a tidy honorarium and recruiting political analyst James Reston Jr. (Sam Rockwell) and reporter Bob Zelnick (Oliver Platt) to help him prepare. Despite his enthusiasm, Frost becomes intimidated by the... Read Full Story
I just saw an early screening of Frost/Nixon, the film version of the play by the same name. This review will contain some spoilers, but only in the way that reviews of Titanic gave away that ending too.
Frost/Nixon is based on the historic 1977 interview between David Frost, British talk show host, and Richard Nixon, newly resigned President of the United States.
As the story goes, Nixon took the interview, thinking it was a chance to redeem himself in the eyes of the world, and... Read Full Story
The difficulties in capturing historical politics on-screen are numerous; accuracy is essential considering the film has little to do with “history” if it manipulates the facts or leans towards a particular political spectrum. So many films (Ollie Stone, I’m looking at you) distort and expand on reality in such a way that often you are watching the creator’s own impression of the events, rather than an honest recreation. Ron Howard’s newest film, Frost/Nixon , risks political bias and... Read Full Story
Frost/Nixon
Starring Frank Langella and
Michael Sheen
Directed by Ron Howard
Rated R
When
I was in college, I took a mass media class where we watched Citizen Kane ,
All the President's Men , and Network . The point of the exercise
was that it showed that the vaunted fourth estate of government was vital and
powerful, more so in the 20th century (and now the 21st) than in the 19th.
But it has another effect perhaps unintended by the
shapers of our government... Read Full Story
