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 83 with Clay Keller
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 83, I join host of the Screen Drafts Podcast and Vidiots trivia, Clay Keller. Clay and I discuss this scene as the "His Girl Friday" moment of the movie, the newsroom genre and claim that this historical moment is the reason for the combative, facts adverse, Fox propaganda.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 82 with Kate McMahon and Mary Bolling
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 80, I join Melbourne mums, former journalists and hosts of the Bluey! podcast Gotta Be Done, Kate McMahon and Mary Bolling. Kate, Mary and I discuss the value of silence as a Mum, watching this movie for the first time, vague memories of seeing Bob Woodward speak and being a witness to real-life editing meetings and fighting for your corner/section.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 81 with Brendan Hodges
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 fourteen host, Blake Howard joins an incredible film mind and film critic on sabbatical, Brendan Hodges. Brendan and I discuss how President's is uniquely suited to this format and that this scene is a moody, fireworks show of drama and intrigue that encapsulates the essence of the film.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 80 with Meg Shields
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 80, I join senior contributor at Film School Rejects/One Perfect Shot and writer at Cinema Scope Magazine, Meg Shields. Meg and I discuss "what if Scott Glenn and lasers?"; the horror story of Martha Mitchell seen through the performance of Jane Alexander; and the fact that with great power comes great "mob-ish" behaviour.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 79 with Conor O'Donnell and Dan Mecca
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 79, I join hosts of The B-Side Podcast, East Coast filmmakers, one host of the Cinephile Game Night, contributors to (and one co-founder of) The Film Stage. Conor, Dan and I 'soft recommend' Pakula's "Comes a Horseman," the mastery of subtly building tension, writing for a school paper, and all the reasons why Dustin Hoffman's give an all-timer of a line reading in this minute.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 78 with Drea Clark
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 78, I join festival programmer, film producer and podcast host of the Who Shot Ya? Podcast, Drea Clark. Drea and I discuss Pakula's distinct point of view which conveys a deep understanding of how humans read each other and this scene echoing the teachable moment where Bernstein updates Woodward's copy.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 77 with Mark Graham
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 77, I join Editor-in-Chief of Decider and Vice President of Digital Strategy at the New York Post, Mark Graham. Mark and I discuss the strange Graham connection with the real-life Bookkeeper Judy Hoback Miller, watching this movie for the first time and his birthday being the same day that Nixon vowed that he wasn't going to resign.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 76 with Jon Boorstin
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 76, I join writer, filmmaker associate producer and Alan J. Pakula's assistant on All The President's Men, Jon Boorstin. Jon and I discuss everything about his experience working on President's, the counterintuitive editing practices and sitting up close and personal with the under-rated master Alan J. Pakula.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 75 with Bo Roberts
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 75, I join Indiana born, pro-athlete, turned actor and top model, Bo Roberts. Bo and I talk about the doors of potential gigs slamming in your face, audition tradecraft and Bo's perceptive reading that the Bookkeeper's sister is opening the door as an act to free her sister of the burden of what she knows.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 74 with Robin Epley
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 74, I join editor of the Mendocino Beacon and the Fort Bragg Advocate and finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize Nominee at the Chico Enterprise-Record, Robin Epley. Robin and I discuss strong-arming her way onto the podcast, journalistic roadwork and how witnessing history changes your experience of history.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 73 with Hugh Riminton
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 73, I join multi-award-winning journalist, author, co-host of The Professor and The Hack podcast and current National Affairs Editor and anchor at 10 News, Hugh Riminton. Hugh and I discuss growing up in a world where the American Presidency was, by definition, crooked and so much more.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 72 with Beatrice Loayza
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 72, I join DC film and theatre critic with bylines at The Av Club, Guardian, MUBI and Film Comment, Beatrice Loayza. Beatrice and I discuss Gordon Willis' chiaroscuro stylings, being dwarfed by the Washington DC architecture and appreciating that President's has no interested in the affairs of the powerful.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 71 with Jack Latimore
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 71, I join Digital Editor at NITV News, Birpai man and co-host & producer for the Take It Blak podcast, Jack Latimore. Jack and I discuss that he wishes he'd come up with the concept for this show, the guilt of the Australian media in elevating racist voices, black lives matter and slogans for a changed Australian National Day.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 70 with James Oliphant
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 70, I join National Political correspondent at Reuters and movie fan James Oliphant. James and I discuss not being able to get in front of 'real' voters in isolation, the lack of hope in the ending of The Big Short in contrast to President's and tackling a literal "red herring" in the minute at hand.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 69 with Adam Gartrell
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 69, I join former journalist and current Press Secretary for the Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations Tony Burke, Adam Gartrell. Adam and I share thoughts of the allure of conspiracy theories and discuss the mystery of a stolen rental DVD copy of President's from a Bathurst Video Ezy.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 68 with Sarah Kelly
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 68, I join sporting editor formerly of Washington Post Express and SB Nation, Sarah Kelly. Sarah and I discuss portrayals of the American experience, the role of an editor, before digressing wholly into "Friday Night Lights" and life as Highschool football coach's wife.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 67 with Jimmy Hemphill
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 67, for a second time, I join writer & director of THE TROUBLE WITH THE TRUTH; contributor to American Cinematographer & Filmmaker; AMPAS historian; Jim Hemphill. Blake and Jim discuss interviewing Val Kilmer, "auteurism," the paradoxical realism of President's, and that JAWS has taken the mantle of the most 2020 movie.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 66 with Tahlea Aualiitia
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 66, I join presenter, producer & reporter at ABC Radio Australia and great geek/pop culture chatterbox, Tahlea (Tali) Aualiitia. Tahlea and I discuss why fairness and respect matters, how other than technology - newsrooms in Australia continue to feel as white as the '72 Post, charm as an essential interview skill and women bearing witness to historical misdeeds.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 65 with Travis Johnson
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 the 65th minute, film critic, journalist and occasional political commentator, Travis Johnson returns. Travis and I discuss not being assigned a minute, the (now) bizarre experience of seeing each other face to face and just when I thought Travis was going to be the angry one, I delivered on enough slander for the both of us.
All The President's Minutes - Minute 64 with Brianna Zigler
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 the 64th minute, I join freelance film journalist and staff writer at Screen Queens, Brianna Zigler. Brianna and I discuss watching The Post and All The President's Men back to back, the weird proximity to actual historical events, and needing to see more Robert Redford movies.