Good Night And Good Luck ( 2005 )

It´s 1953, and the piece of talking furniture called TV is still a novelty in America´s living rooms. On it, Sen. Joseph McCarthy uses fear, falsehoods and belligerence to become arguably the most powerful man in the land. On it, newsman Edward R. Murrow, who´s had his fill of the senator´s tactics, fights back.

That pivotal clash of two titans is the focus of director/co-writer George Clooney´s award-winning Good Night, and Good Luck. David Strathairn portrays Murrow, the principled "face of television" who maps his strategy with his producer and confident, Fred Friendly (Colony). A deft ensemble plays staff members in the bustling battleground that is the CBS newsroom. McCarthy is in the mix, too, intercut into the action via real-life footage. Don´t touch that dial. A media and a nation are going to change - while on the air. åx

Upplagd i sortimentet: vecka 12, 2006