• TO ORDER TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER • 14 Desson ThomsonandRitaKempley. The W Popular Culture”; authorandChicago “The ImageoftheJournalistin School for Communication project, the NormanLear USC Annenberg directorSchanberg; JoeSaltzman, of and Pulitzer Prize winnerSydney T R Newseum andTheW the AmericanFilmInstitute, the C The AmericanUniversity Schoolof Sunday, March28 F W the NewseumandThe Co-sponsored byAFI, Film Festival Reel Journalism University American FILM FESTIVAL Fe Fiction?” and“Journalists atWar.” Portrayal oftheMedia:Fact or Panel topics include:“Hollywood’s Hollywood tell thereporter’s tale? alumni. How accurately does distinguished AmericanUniversity discussions by leadingjournalistsand battlefields—featuring specialpanel ism—from thenewsrooms to the films depictingtheworld ofjournal- presents aweekend ofexceptional New Y CBS News’SusanZirinsky; former ribune ommunication, inpartnershipwith epublic riday, March26through atured journalistsincludeTheNew ashington Post ork Times ashingt c olumnist NellMinow; and f ormer editor CharlesLane; on Pos w ar correspondent t ashingt ’s Len Downie, on Pos t , 1931, b&w, 101 min.. Lederer. andCharles Cormack US, byBartlett written Milestone; byLewis Directed/produced paying jobinadvertising? the scoop? Hildytakethebetter Will noses. thereporters’ Who gets under escapee—who outtoberight turns prison abumbling on finding andfocused quitting toget married Hildy Johnson (Pat O’Brien) from Me w ofpressrooms prowls thefunkiest Lewis Milestone’s relentlessly camera MacArthur’s newsroom stage classic. ad matic, andclosest-to-the-original T Sa THE FRONTPAGE Saturday, March27 Fiction? Media: Fact Or Portrayal OfThe Hollywood’s he first, arguably themostcine- arguably he first, hile editor hile editor Walter (Adolphe Burns t, March 27, 11:00a.m. aptation of Ben Hechtaptation ofBen andCharles OPENING EVENT! room. roomtothecontrol Joan theediting tapefrom chance toanchor. Butfirst Cusack hastoget acrucial “f who from suffers journalist Brooks asthecrack and Albert Hurt, anchor budding William butempty-headedlooking Hollyproducer Hunter, good- news bureau: hyper-driven W It F BROADCAST NEWS on-stage with: character—liveHunter’s inspiration for Holly Susan Zirinsky—the Special Event! 9:00 p.m. AFTER THESCREENING: Brooks. US, byJames 1987, L. Directed/written/produced color, 127min.. Susan Zirinsky’s tothetop. Oscarnominations. Seven journey MENT, inCBSNews events Basedonreal-life THE SIMPSONS, Executive etc.)tradition. Producer No passes accepted. Graduate StudentCouncil willfollow intheAFISilver Gallery. 9:30 p.m. f Executive Producer ofCBSNews’ 48HOURSINVESTIGATES andtheinspiration njou) schemestokeepreporter or BROADCAST NEWS’ leadingcharacter. riday, March 26,7:00 p.m. ’s lop sweat” when a hegets ashington TV network ashington TV
a classic triangle ina a classictriangle Se riously A reception co-sponsored by theAU SchoolofCommunication A specialaudience Q&Asession withSusanZirinsky—AU alumna, funny, ENDEAR- inthebestJames Brooks (AS L. GOODASITGETS, OF TERMS 1951, b&w,1951, 111min.. Wilder. andBilly Samuels USA, w Wilder; byBilly Directed/produced Pu wona realreporter case—the Collins Basedonthe1925Floyd at theclimax. history inscreen amazing focus-pull themost Manandarguably Decent astheOnly Hall Porter suspendered Noteworthy arebeltedand bagshusband: my “Kneeling nylons.”) she isn’t praying trapped forher Am Wilder’s attackon mostvenomous inacaveman trapped inBilly ev Ru Sa CARNIVAL] BIG THE [aka ACE INTHEHOLE turday, March 27, 1:00p.m. ritten byWalter Newman, Lesser er l thless reporter KirkDouglas—and reporter thless itzer Prize. itzer er ybody else—exploit adoomed ybody else—exploit ican greed. (Jan Sterling onwhy Sterling (Jan ican greed. A CE INTHEHOLE SPECIAL EVENT! “The most entertaining movie about journalism since ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN”—GLENN KENNY, PREMIERE SHATTERED GLASS Saturday, March 27, 3:15; Monday-Wednesday, March 29-31, 6:40 & 8:35 This fictionalized account chronicling the downfall of SPECIAL EVENT! real-life wunderkind Stephen Journalists discuss “Hollywood’s Glass, whose meteoric rise to Portrayal of the Media: Fact or the top as staff writer for The Fiction?” after a special screening of: New Republic and contributor TICKETS: WWW.AFI.COM/SILVER ORDER • TO to George, Rolling Stone and SHATTERED GLASS Harper’s is, in fact, adapted Saturday, March 27, 3:15 from a Vanity Fair article by Following the film, journalists Charles Buzz Bissinger. Glass’s cele- Lane (former editor of The New brated stories covered topics Republic), Desson Thomson and Rita ranging from the misdeeds of Kempley (film critics for The young Republican delegates at Washington Post), Joe Saltzman, the National Convention to (award winning broadcast journalist and USC professor), and Nell Minow companies that hired superstar (author and Chicago Tribune colum- teenage cyber-hackers to nist) will participate in a live panel shore-up their internet secu- discussion: “Hollywood’s Portrayal of rity. Not unlike the more the Media: Fact or Fiction?” The panel Special Event! recent case of Jayson Blair, it will be moderated by Margaret Engel turns out that 27 of Glass’s 41 (Newseum). A panel discussion following: published stories were either partially or completely fabri- ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN cated. Hayden Christensen Saturday, March 27, 7:15 p.m. delivers a complex performance as the likable, albeit troubled “Not until this riveting screen adaptation of the Watergate book Glass, and Peter Sarsgaard earned a Golden Globe nomination for has any film come remotely close to being an accurate picture of his role as editor Charles Lane, Glass’s curiously un-engaging American journalism at its best. A spellbinding detective story nemesis who reluctantly cracks the case. about two Washington Post reporters who helped break the Directed/written by Billy Ray; produced by Craig Baumgarten, Watergate scandal, a breathless adventure, and a vivid footnote Marc Butan and Tove Christensen. US, 2003, color, 95 min.. to contemporary American history.”—Vincent Canby, New York Rated PG-13. Times. No passes accepted. Directed by Alan J. Pakula; written by William Goldman; produced by Walter Coblenz. US, 1976, color, 138 min..
AFTER THE SCREENING: Leonard Garment, former special counsel to President Richard Nixon; Charles Lewis, founder and executive director of The Center for Public Integrity; and Len Downie, executive editor of The Washington Post will be joined by other invited journalists to participate in a live, on-stage audi- ence Q&A. The panel will be moderated by Prof. John Watson (AU SOC). No passes accepted.
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