Movies 4 The Politically Interested
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Roger Ebert
January 31, 1986
5 min read
When Sidney Lumet released “Network” back in 1976, I saw it at a screening with a lot of television news people, who walked out of the movie shaking their heads in wonderment and admitting that Lumet had, by and large, gotten it right. After all the Hollywood flights of fancy about TV news, here was a movie with some real insights.
Now Lumet has made a movie named “Power” about the world of professional political campaign organizers, and he seems to have gotten this one right, too. The movie exudes a sense of authenticity, of a subject researched well. The major difference, however, between “Network” and “Power” is that “Network” had a plot and “Power” does not.
The movie stars Richard Gere as Pete St. John, campaign strategist and hired gun. During the course of the movie, he will mastermind campaigns in New Mexico, Washington and Ohio – where his man is a cynical stooge for the big oil companies. We will see him filming TV commercials, and coaching his clients about the way to behave during press conferences, and fighting the opposition’s dirty tricks with some of his own.
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January 31, 1986
5 min read
When Sidney Lumet released “Network” back in 1976, I saw it at a screening with a lot of television news people, who walked out of the movie shaking their heads in wonderment and admitting that Lumet had, by and large, gotten it right. After all the Hollywood flights of fancy about TV news, here was a movie with some real insights.
Now Lumet has made a movie named “Power” about the world of professional political campaign organizers, and he seems to have gotten this one right, too. The movie exudes a sense of authenticity, of a subject researched well. The major difference, however, between “Network” and “Power” is that “Network” had a plot and “Power” does not.
The movie stars Richard Gere as Pete St. John, campaign strategist and hired gun. During the course of the movie, he will mastermind campaigns in New Mexico, Washington and Ohio – where his man is a cynical stooge for the big oil companies. We will see him filming TV commercials, and coaching his clients about the way to behave during press conferences, and fighting the opposition’s dirty tricks with some of his own.
Power movie review & film summary (1986) | Roger Ebert
When Sidney Lumet released "Network" back in 1976, I saw it at a screening with a lot of television news people, who walked out of the movie shaking their
www.rogerebert.com