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Weekend Movie Forecast: Frost/Nixon, Cadillac Records

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John Del Signore

Published Dec 5, 2008

Modified Jan 7, 2009

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Frost/Nixon stars Frank Langella as Richard Nixon and Michael Sheen as broadcast journalist David Frost in a dramatic retelling of the landmark interviews three years after Tricky Dick resigned. David Denby at The New Yorker, a self-described Nixon-hater, writes, "One of the virtues of Ron Howard’s adaptation of Peter Morgan’s hit play is that it brings the intelligence back to the forefront without dispelling the elements of menace and fraudulence that were also part of Nixon’s temperament... "Frost/Nixon offers considerable insight into the Nixon mystery, without solving it; the movie is fully absorbing and even, when Nixon falls into a drunken, resentful rage, exciting, but I can’t escape the feeling that it carries about it an aura of momentousness that isn’t warranted by the events."

 

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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.

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