Here Comes Oscar Season: A Trailer for 'Frost/Nixon'
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Maybe it's because this was my first summer writing for Cinematical, but it's felt like an exceptionally intense movie season: the event movies just kept coming, and many of them wound up having real traction. There was a lot to watch and a lot to talk about. It's barely ended, and in just a couple of weeks, Telluride and Toronto officially kick off the fall -- and "Oscar season". I'll sleep when I'm dead, I guess.One of awards season's most formidable contenders -- already slated for the familiar December platform release -- is Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon, based on the acclaimed West End and Broadway play about journalist David Frost's famous televised interviews of post-resignation Richard Nixon; the ones where Nixon delivered the infamous line about how "if the President does it, it's not illegal." There's a well-crafted trailer for it over
I saw the play with Frank Langella as Nixon and Michael Sheen as Frost, both of whom reprise their roles in the film. The show was great but very much a stage show, deriving a lot of its power from the foreboding set and the hugeness of Langella's Nixon impression which, from the looks of the trailer, remains very much intact. It worked great in the theater, but I'm worried it might overwhelm the film. I liked Anthony Hopkins' take on Nixon in the Oliver Stone film, where he basically said to hell with the impersonation and did his own thing.
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(Page 1)2. Hmmm... not so sure about the Nixon voice. I mean... it kinda sounds like him.... but mostly not.
Hope it's good. Ron Howard has made 2 of my all time favorites - Apollo 13 and Cinderella Man. Although he also made the last movie I fell asleep to in theaters - DaVinci Code. We'll see!!
Posted at 3:27PM on Aug 21st 2008 by uforeader
1. Aw man this movie actually looks awesome.
Posted at 10:24AM on Aug 21st 2008 by Michael Byng