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.
The series includes:
All The President's Minutes - Minute 3 with Maria Lewis
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 three host, Blake Howard joins critic, journalist and author, Maria Lewis. Maria drags Blake for giving her 70% of a black screen for her minute before diving into how deeply this movie speaks to her beginnings as a prodigious 16-year-old journalist on the Gold Coast of Australia.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 2 with J.R Hennessy
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 two host, Blake Howard joins the political editor of Business Insider Australia and journalist, J.R Hennessy. J.R and Blake discuss the prophetic nature of President's Men by focusing on the trade of journalism and the pursuit of truth. J.R and Blake also take an essential digression to contrast another "primary source" film David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network and the quaint conclusions compared to the more substantial political ramifications a decade later.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 1 with Bilge Ebiri
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 one host Blake Howard is joined by Editor for Vulture and New York Magazine and one of the world's best film critics, Bilge Ebiri. Bilge and Blake discuss director Alan J. Pakula's avant-garde choices, paranoia, audiences watching at the time knowing that all this "shit" only happening two years ago and the inference an impenetrable machine surrounding Nixon from the first minute of the movie.