Frost/Nixon and The Reader

Alex saw Frost/Nixon, Doubt, and The Reader this weekend, but let me just note that never in my lifetime have I ever had a cooler movie-watching experience than the one I had on Saturday as I watched one of my all-time favorite movies, an American film classic, The Philadelphia Story, on screen at the Alex Theater (appropriately), which was preceded by the original Bugs Bunny cartoon "The Wild Hare" and actual news reels from 1940, the year this masterpiece was released.

Anywho...

Frost/Nixon

I actually enjoyed this movie more than I thought I would. I was very impressed by the performance of Frank Langella who played the late former president, Richard Nixon, as he went through I'm sure what was the most emotional time in his life, the months after his resignation. I didn't get as much from Michael Sheen who played the ex-president's interviewer, David Frost. However, the movie altogether to me was pretty unbiased in the sense that you sympathized with the president yet also felt the negative impact that his irresponsible decisions had on the nation at the time without feeling that its critics were out of line. Overall I was nervous when I was supposed to be nervous and relieved when I was supposed to be relieved.