Frost/Nixon (2008)

Posted : 5 months, 3 weeks ago at May 16 10:05

"I let them down. I let down my friends, I let down my country, and worst of all I let down our system of government, and the dreams of all those young people that ought to get into government but now they think; 'Oh it's all too corrupt and the rest'. Yeah... I let the American people down. And I'm gonna have to carry that burden with me for the rest of my life. My political life is over." Frost/Nixon is Ron Howard's cinematic adaptation of Peter Morgan's hugely successful Broadway play of the same name. Morgan (who also penned the screenplay for this motion picture appropriation) based his production on the series of television interviews featuring British journalist David Frost and disgraced former president Richard Nixon (conducted in 1977). Judging from this premise, one would like...Read more

Posted : 9 months, 1 week ago at Feb 1 15:11

''I'm saying that when the President does it, that means it's not illegal!'' A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. Frank Langella: Richard Nixon Ron Howard and everyone responsible for the creation of Frost/Nixon have selected an historic event, so wonderfully captivating and awe inspiring, that a subtle, restrained documentary styled drama approach works with dazzling results. I haven't seen the original stage play on which the film is centred on, but I can firmly assume that it emphasises alot more focus, on the stage-friendly interviews sequence and less on the depiction of the whirlwind events leading up to the interviews, which occur over extended periods of time and in ...Read more

Rating : 9/10

Posted : 10 months, 1 week ago at Jan 3 20:43

Ron Howard's re-telling of the historic interview between David Frost and Richard Nixon in 1977 is surprisingly gripping. Like with Apollo 13, Howard manages to imbue tension and "what's going to happen next?" feeling into an event where we already know the outcome. Though the interview proper is the meat of the movie, what makes it work is the back story of Frost's troubles in getting the show made and Nixon's desire to "get back into the game". I love the cinematography - the light-filled but slightly bleached look really fits the period and the costumes are great. Michael Sheen as Frost and Frank Langella as Nixon play well off one another but it is Langella that steals the show - he captures the dynamism of Nixon the man, a wily, shrewd politician who is a bit bruised and batt...Read more

Rating : 8/10