I am in the mood for a movie about Watergate

[james_davis_nicoll]

I've rewatched All the President's Men and I've watched the Nixon/Frost interview. What else should I see?

Comments

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

There's http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078575/ but good luck finding it. I saw it a long time ago.

There's also http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113987/ - personally, I hated it.

I've heard that http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192774/ is a good documentary, but lots of luck finding it.

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

Dick

[avram]

Seconded. Especially since you've seen All the President's Men recently.

[andrewducker]

Dick is fantastic. Much cleverer than it looks from the outside.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree also. _Dick_ is a very fun movie, although it's hard to see how it got made--how did studio executives convince themselves that kids in 1999 would be interested in a comedic treatment of Watergate? Still, their (financial) loss is our gain. I recall particularly liking Dave Foley's understated performance as Haldeman. Hedaya's (non-understated) Nixon was good too.

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was pretty amused by this movie.

(It was also an eye opener to see the actor for Brian on My So-Called Life again. He looked different.)

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

I personally really liked Stone's Nixon. New York Magazine's list of The Ten Best Movie Nixons seems like a reasonable starting point, though several of those aren't Watergate-specific.

But yes, it would be hard to go wrong with Dick.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

The NPR interviews might be worth looking at, as they talk about the background of the interview, specifically, that Frost was considered a lightweight, there was the desire to put Nixon on the trial he escaped from having, and Nixon was hoping for a sympathetic ear to give his side of the story.

The interview with JIm Reston might be a good place to start.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98995421&ft=1&f=1012