Great review from Rolling Stone about Good Night, and Good Luck

[Melodybe]

clip:
At the center of the storm is Murrow, standing firm against the push for compromise. It's a bitch -- not to mention a bore -- to play a noble monument. Strathairn dodges that pitfall by making Murrow fallible, funny and human. Chain-smoking off the air and on, he mines the humor in the deft script by Clooney and producer Grant Heslov. Murrow wasn't so lofty that he refused to interview celebs for the CBS show Person to Person. Clooney includes a hilarious clip of gay pianist Liberace being asked by Murrow if he's ready to settle down with the right girl. Helping to spawn celeb journalism on the tube is a sin Murrow never lived down. His distinction came in picking his battles. Strathairn lets us see the war in Murrow's eyes as he takes on McCarthy not just for confusing dissent with disloyalty but for deciding to smear Murrow himself when the senator makes an appearance on See It Now. A spark of rage burns in Murrow, and Strathairn shows us the flame. Best known for his work in the films of his Williams College friend John Sayles (check out Passion Fish right now if you haven't seen it), Strathairn comes into his own with this career role, to which he brings three decades of acting expertise. It's a performance of ferocity and feeling that you won't soon forget.

A word here about the guy who plays McCarthy. You have to forgive the way he overdoes the sweaty, manipulative monster aspects of the role, because, thanks to Clooney's judicious use of actual film footage, McCarthy plays himself. The studio is pushing for a posthumous Oscar nomination.

I think not. More Oscar justice would be done in the name of the live ones. For a paltry $8 million, Clooney has crafted a period piece that speaks potently to a here-and-now when constitutional rights are being threatened in the name of the Patriot Act, and the American media trade in truth for access. "We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason," said Murrow. Amen to that, brother. Good night, and good luck.

here's the review:
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/_/id/7488220?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=double1&rnd=1128385562234&has-player=true&version=6.0.8.1024

here's the trailer:
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/goodnightandgoodluck.html

[texpatriot2004]

1. I am so pissed that this film won't be opening in Texas on 10/07

It sucks not to be in NY or LA.

[rndmprsn]

2. ive started multiple threads about this movie...

and all have dropped like rocks...perhaps even DU is unaware of this great man and what he did?

anyhow...i for one am excited and was born WAAAY after this period in history, maybe after a band-wagon effect when the movie breaks out then we'll hear some discussion on here about murrow v mccarthy

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4955600&mesg_id=4955600

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4953031&mesg_id=4953031

[Melodybe]

3. My threads have been pretty sucessful, but eitherway DUers need to know

that this is the most important movie coming out this year.

There is no arguing about it. As far as saving the nation from fascists, George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck is the most powerful movie coming out this year.

This movie is getting all kinds of crazy good hype, it's gonna be big.

[asjr]

4. Edward R. Murrow was one of a kind. I remember

him well. He became an addiction for everyone who watched him. If we only had him now.

[suffragette]

5. thanks for keeping us posted

And for letting us know about this. I've been spreading the news on it to everyone I know.

[jayctravis]

6. delete

guh, I'm a stupid dork