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Politics. Ricky Gervais Live 2: Politics is the title of a stand-up comedy performance by British comedian Ricky Gervais. It was filmed at the Palace Theatre, London, United Kingdom in 2004.
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- All The President’s Men
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Primary
- The Battle of Algiers
- Dr. Strangelove OR: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
- The Lives of Others
- Mean Girls
- Born Yesterday
- Lone Star
Have you watched it lately? You should. (And by “you,” we mean every sentient being on Capitol Hill.) Frank Capra’s classic is still the granddaddy of America’s small-d democratic, participatory ideals. And James Stewart’s portrayal of a small-town nobody and his quixotic battle against self-dealing politicians still claims pride of place as Hollyw...
For many viewers — especially the untold number who became reporters after being inspired by it — this flawlessly crafted Watergate procedural is a journalism movie. But in the process of untangling the skein of lies, malfeasance and coverups that defined the scandal, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dusti...
The 1960s and ’70s produced their share of great paranoid thrillers, but this one proved shockingly prescient, not only regarding the era of assassinations that immediately followed its release, but of today, when foreign influence on our elections poses a credible and escalating threat. Masterfully directed by John Frankenheimer and featuring Fran...
Robert Drew’s chronicle of John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey’s contest for the Democratic presidential nomination marks a watershed in an emerging documentary form alternately called “cinema verite” and “direct cinema.” However you describe it, this startlingly intimate glimpse of the candidates and the people who surrounded them reminds audience...
This tense, closely observed drama about the guerrilla war of independence with France is so realistic that it was screened at the Pentagon for counterinsurgency training in 2003. Director Gillo Pontecorvo cast mostly nonprofessional actors in the film, which helped codify the jangly aesthetic of handheld cinematography. But Pontecorvo never lost h...
When Stanley Kubrick first set out to adapt the novel “Red Alert,” about the horrifying and all-too-likely possibility of a hair-trigger nuclear war, he considered it a drama. But as he began contemplating concepts such as “mutual assured destruction,” “massive retaliation” and “megadeaths,” he realized the only suitable vernacular was satire as bl...
For many Americans, this exquisitely staged and acted drama provided their first exposure to the East German secret police, known as the Stasi, and their methods of political and social control. Reminiscent of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 thriller, “The Conversation,” Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s stunning feature debut brought viewers inside t...
Yes, “Mean Girls.” Lindsay Lohan has never been better than in this frothy teenage coming-of-age comedy. But in addition to the usual adolescent high jinks and catty comebacks, screenwriter Tina Fey managed to create an incredibly insightful taxonomy of hierarchical power as it is amassed, wielded and ultimately dismantled — all within the compli...
Fans of the epic political biography “All the King’s Men,” in which Broderick Crawford channels Louisiana populist Huey Long, will notice that title is missing here — not out of disrespect, but in deference to Crawford’s equally titanic performance in a similarly bumptious role: a coarse blowhard seeking to buy the political fealty of a U.S. congre...
As previously noted, John Sayles is our poet laureate of political cinema. His films “Return of the Secaucus 7,” “City of Hope” and “Matewan” could have easily made this list, along with several others. But “Lone Star” is his masterwork. A simultaneously epic and finely drawn intergenerational and time-shifting murder mystery set on the Texas-Mexic...
- Georgia May
- Citizen Kane (1941) Directed by Orson Welles. Starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore. Drama, Mystery (1h 59m) 8.3 on IMDb — 99% on RT. Considering Citizen Kane was Orson Welles's first feature-length film, you might say he did fairly well.
- Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) Directed by Shaka King. Starring LaKeith Stanfield, Daniel Kaluuya, Jesse Plemons. Biography, Drama, History (2h 6m) 7.4 on IMDb — 97% on RT.
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Directed by Frank Capra. Starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains. Comedy, Drama (2h 9m) 8.1 on IMDb — 97% on RT.
- Dr. Strangelove (1964) Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden. Comedy, War (1h 35m) 8.4 on IMDb — 98% on RT.
Ricky Gervais Live 2: Politics is the title of a stand-up comedy performance by British comedian Ricky Gervais. It was filmed at the Palace Theatre, London, United Kingdom in 2004.
- Citizen Kane (1941) Citizen Kane may be considered the greatest film ever made, but it's not usually seen as an overtly political one. What could "Rosebud" have to do with politics?
- Ran (1985) Ran is Japanese for "chaos," and Akira Kurosawa's monumental film encapsulates that word on nearly every level. While it may seem to be a "war movie" first, politics are at the core of this beautifully shot masterpiece.
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Stanley Kubrick was known for many things as a master director, but his political commentary wasn't really one of them.
- All the King's Men (1949) This 1949 Best Picture winner tracks the career of fictional politician Willie Stark as he rises from rural obscurity asa self-proclaimed "hick," riding a wave of populism which votes him in as governor.
The film, based on Richard Condon's 1959 novel of the same name and a reworking of the previous 1962 film, stars Denzel Washington as Bennett Marco, a tenacious, virtuous soldier; Liev Schreiber as Raymond Shaw, a U.S. Representative from New York, manipulated into becoming a vice-presidential candidate; Jon Voight as U.S. Senator Tom Jordan, a ...
Aug 22, 2012 · Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel. Year Released: 2004. Studio: Newmarket Films. Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes. Get This Movie. Spending two-and-a-half hours inside the...
