All The President's Minutes - Minute 50 with Kenneth Turan
All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 50, I join a legend in the international film criticism community, the unsinkable Kenneth (Kenny) Turan). Kenny and I discuss being a reporter at the Washington Post during the entire Watergate era, the inherent romance of cinema, and watching the film years later at an anniversary screening as the closest thing to time travel.
About Kenneth Turan (via the L.A Times)
Kenneth Turan was the film critic for the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio's Morning Edition as well as the director of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. He has been a staff writer for the Washington Post as well as The Times' book review editor. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, he teaches film reviewing and non-fiction writing at USC. His most recent books are "Never Coming To A Theater Near You" and "Free For All: Joe Papp, The Public and The Greatest Theater Story Ever Told." He retired from The Times in April 2020.
Twitter: @KennethTuran
Outlets: L.A Times (Retired), NPR
