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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Dec 20, 2020 9:08:43 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 20, 2020 16:42:55 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Dec 20, 2020 18:37:45 GMT
Gotham's finest reporter-and the screaming Barbie doll.
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Post by london777 on Dec 20, 2020 21:38:06 GMT
Melinda McGraw plays the hard-as-nails pushy TV reporter first on the scene of the hostage situation in Albino Alligator (1996) dir: Kevin Spacey. Detective in charge G.D. Browning, played by Joe Mantegna, is ordered by his boss to give her an interview. He deliberately laces it with so many obscenities that it is unusable. She still manages to inadvertently blurt out some restricted information which endangers lives. Here they are, facing the TV camera. A rare humorous passage in a serious movie. McGraw has a lot of credits, but mainly for TV work, so I guess she was suited to this part.
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Post by london777 on Dec 20, 2020 22:07:04 GMT
In To Die For (1995) dir: Gus van Sant, Nicole Kidman plays a novice journalist who, as the title suggests, will stop at nothing to become a famous TV presenter. She is a psychopath who leaves a trail of destruction in her wake. There have been a few real-life examples of this on our screens lately.
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Post by london777 on Dec 20, 2020 22:15:58 GMT
Another film about psychotic ambition in the news reporting field, and by far the best, is Nightcrawler (2014) dir: Dan Gilroy. Louis Bloom, memorably played by a ghoulish Jake Gyllenhaal, comes to realise that the best way to ensure he is first on the scene at violent events is to give them a helping hand beforehand. This superb neo-noir is one of the best US films of this century.
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Post by phantomparticle on Dec 23, 2020 9:32:57 GMT
When she isn't tooting her own horn, reporter Glenda Farrell tries to convince her editor, Frank McHugh, there is something suspicious about that new Wax Museum down the street.
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Post by kijii on Dec 28, 2020 5:03:39 GMT
The Desperate Hours (1955) /William Wyler Remade into Desperate Hours (1990) / Michael Cimino
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Post by kijii on Dec 28, 2020 5:21:56 GMT
Underworld U.S.A. (1961) / Sam Fuller
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Post by jeffersoncody on Dec 28, 2020 11:37:58 GMT
UNDER FIRE (1983).
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Post by jeffersoncody on Dec 28, 2020 11:40:10 GMT
SALVADOR (1986).
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Post by jeffersoncody on Dec 28, 2020 11:44:02 GMT
SPOTLIGHT (2015).
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Post by jeffersoncody on Dec 28, 2020 11:47:58 GMT
A PRIVATE WAR (2018).
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Post by jeffersoncody on Dec 28, 2020 11:49:36 GMT
THE POST (2018)
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Post by jeffersoncody on Dec 28, 2020 11:52:04 GMT
MEDIUM COOL (1969).
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Post by jeffersoncody on Dec 28, 2020 11:58:00 GMT
NEWSFRONT (1978).
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Post by jeffersoncody on Dec 28, 2020 12:00:40 GMT
THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY (1982).
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