Broadcast News. "Broadcast News" is as knowledgeable about the TV news-gathering process as any movie ever made, but it also has insights into the more personal matter of how people use high-pressure jobs as a way of avoiding time alone with themselves. The movie, opening today at the Fine Arts, is described as being about a romantic triangle ...
Broadcast News
Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/22/24 Full Review Donald A The perfect mix between an art-house ending and an 80's romance, James L. Brooks' film "Broadcast News" is a true classic ...
Broadcast News (film)
Broadcast News is a 1987 American romantic comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by James L. Brooks.The film concerns a virtuoso television news producer (Holly Hunter) who has daily emotional breakdowns, a brilliant yet prickly reporter (Albert Brooks), and the latter's charismatic but far less seasoned rival (William Hurt).It also stars Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles, Joan Cusack, and ...
'Broadcast News' Review: Movie (1987)
On Dec. 16, 1987, 20th Century Fox unveiled the R-rated drama Broadcast News in limited release. The film went on to earn seven nominations at the 60th Academy Awards ceremony, including best ...
Broadcast News Movie Review
Our review: Parents say ( 1 ): Kids say ( 1 ): Broadcast News offers a breathless behind-the-scenes look at TV journalism. The newsroom scenes, in particular, are a treat to watch: Joan Cusack galloping frantically through the bureau to deliver a videotape with seconds to spare; Tom giving Aaron tips on anchoring and camera appeal; Jane talking ...
Broadcast News
Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 1, 2019. Joe Baltake McClatchy News Service. The film has savvy and it has an edge, but there s not a trace of cruelty or cheap-shot, easy humor in it. Much ...
Broadcast News (1987)
Broadcast News: Directed by James L. Brooks. With William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky. Take two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly.
Broadcast News (1987) Movie Review
Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news she despises. Aaron Altman, a talented but plain correspondent, carries an unrequited torch for Jane. Sparks fly between the three as the network prepares for big changes, and both the news and Jane must decide between style and substance.
Movie review: "Broadcast News" (1987)
Some twenty-five years since I first saw it at entirely too young an age, James L. Brooks' Broadcast News remains one of cinema's great thoughtful treatises on the pains, rewards, and, above all, complexities of adult relationships, both on and off the clock. The film is warm and funny, incisive and contemplative, and, at just the right ...
Broadcast News Review
15. Original Title: Broadcast News. Funny and provocative look at the professional and emotional wrangles of a national TV news team, written and directed with great insight and an uncanny feel ...
Film: 'Broadcast News,' Comedy
Television news-as-entertainment is the very funny, occasionally satiric subtext of ''Broadcast News,'' the bright new comedy written and directed by James L. Brooks, with three smashing star ...
Broadcast News (1987)
Bill Conti. Associate producers. Kristi Zea. Associate producers. Susan Zirinisky. Costume designer. Molly Maginnis. Since the 1970s, the name James L. Brooks has been synonymous with intelligent television comedy—his shows are insightful about work and love and always plugged in to the zeitgeist. He is also a master storyteller of the big ...
Broadcast News
Enter Tom Grunick (Hurt), a handsome, affable, but somewhat dim newscaster to whom Jane is attracted. Often touching, biting, and funny, BROADCAST NEWS is an entertaining film hoisted by the ...
30 Years Later: BROADCAST NEWS & Being The Smartest Person
Midwesterner, movie lover, cinnamon enthusiast. "It must be nice to feel like you're the smartest person in the room — to feel like you're always right and everyone else is always wrong.". "No, it's awful.". This exchange, between a TV station president and Jane Craig, the news producing protagonist of James L. Brooks' 1987 ...
Broadcast News 1987, directed by James L Brooks
Writer/director Brooks is knowing about the wisecracks, back-stabbings, political shifts, and innate decencies of the media game, and underpinning what is a cha
Broadcast News
Broadcast News was a great satirical film when it first came out in 1987 and this still applies 29 years later in 2016. This a real testament to both how news has always been bad and the accuracy of the criticism tossed at the news. A truly biting satire, Broadcast News takes a look at ethics, entertainment, and "real journalism", as well as ...
How 'Broadcast News' Predicted Journalism As We Know It
Released in December 1987, the James L. Brooks dramedy is a bittersweet, still-timely look at the people who produce the news. Thirty years later, its creators reflect on the film's legacy.
Broadcast News Review :: Criterion Forum
Picture 7/10. James L. Brooks' Broadcast News gets the Criterion treatment on Blu-ray, the film presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1 on this dual-layer disc in a new 1080p/24hz hi-def transfer. While the image is just as sharp as can be and never falters in this area, the image does look flat and never truly impresses.
Broadcast News
Acclaimed writer, producer, director James L. Brooks (winner of 19 Prime Time Emmy Awards and one of just seven people to win Best Picture, Director and Screenplay Oscars for a single movie (Terms of Endearment - 1983) ) gave us this intelligent and witty movie about a love triangle set in the world of television journalism in 1987.Many of the problems he highlights in Broadcast News have ...
Broadcast News (1987) directed by James L. Brooks • Reviews, film
Popular reviews. More. Griffin Newman ★★★★★ 4. A movie about the burden of being smart enough to know that you'll never be truly happy. Sean Gilman ★★★★★ 10. Get out while you can still cry. Holly Hunter cries all through the film, though usually only at certain scheduled times and places. Until the end, when she chooses ...
Broadcast News (1987) : r/movies
The three main leads - Holly Hunter as Jane, William Hurt as Tom, and Albert Brooks as Aaron - come off real people to me. They each have their goals and their flaws, but they never come off as crude. Even Tom's twist near the end makes sense despite it betraying the earnestness he had cultivated throughout the movie.
10 Things You Didn't Know About The 1987 Film Broadcast News
9. Debra Winger pulled out of starring in the film at short notice when she became pregnant. Broadcast News' lead female character Jane Craig was actually written for Debra Winger, who had already worked with director James L. Brooks to Academy Award-winning effect on his 1983 film Terms of Endearment. Unfortunately, Winger had to pull out of ...
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Broadcast News. "Broadcast News" is as knowledgeable about the TV news-gathering process as any movie ever made, but it also has insights into the more personal matter of how people use high-pressure jobs as a way of avoiding time alone with themselves. The movie, opening today at the Fine Arts, is described as being about a romantic triangle ...
Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/22/24 Full Review Donald A The perfect mix between an art-house ending and an 80's romance, James L. Brooks' film "Broadcast News" is a true classic ...
Broadcast News is a 1987 American romantic comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by James L. Brooks.The film concerns a virtuoso television news producer (Holly Hunter) who has daily emotional breakdowns, a brilliant yet prickly reporter (Albert Brooks), and the latter's charismatic but far less seasoned rival (William Hurt).It also stars Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles, Joan Cusack, and ...
On Dec. 16, 1987, 20th Century Fox unveiled the R-rated drama Broadcast News in limited release. The film went on to earn seven nominations at the 60th Academy Awards ceremony, including best ...
Our review: Parents say ( 1 ): Kids say ( 1 ): Broadcast News offers a breathless behind-the-scenes look at TV journalism. The newsroom scenes, in particular, are a treat to watch: Joan Cusack galloping frantically through the bureau to deliver a videotape with seconds to spare; Tom giving Aaron tips on anchoring and camera appeal; Jane talking ...
Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 1, 2019. Joe Baltake McClatchy News Service. The film has savvy and it has an edge, but there s not a trace of cruelty or cheap-shot, easy humor in it. Much ...
Broadcast News: Directed by James L. Brooks. With William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky. Take two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly.
Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news she despises. Aaron Altman, a talented but plain correspondent, carries an unrequited torch for Jane. Sparks fly between the three as the network prepares for big changes, and both the news and Jane must decide between style and substance.
Some twenty-five years since I first saw it at entirely too young an age, James L. Brooks' Broadcast News remains one of cinema's great thoughtful treatises on the pains, rewards, and, above all, complexities of adult relationships, both on and off the clock. The film is warm and funny, incisive and contemplative, and, at just the right ...
15. Original Title: Broadcast News. Funny and provocative look at the professional and emotional wrangles of a national TV news team, written and directed with great insight and an uncanny feel ...
Television news-as-entertainment is the very funny, occasionally satiric subtext of ''Broadcast News,'' the bright new comedy written and directed by James L. Brooks, with three smashing star ...
Bill Conti. Associate producers. Kristi Zea. Associate producers. Susan Zirinisky. Costume designer. Molly Maginnis. Since the 1970s, the name James L. Brooks has been synonymous with intelligent television comedy—his shows are insightful about work and love and always plugged in to the zeitgeist. He is also a master storyteller of the big ...
Enter Tom Grunick (Hurt), a handsome, affable, but somewhat dim newscaster to whom Jane is attracted. Often touching, biting, and funny, BROADCAST NEWS is an entertaining film hoisted by the ...
Midwesterner, movie lover, cinnamon enthusiast. "It must be nice to feel like you're the smartest person in the room — to feel like you're always right and everyone else is always wrong.". "No, it's awful.". This exchange, between a TV station president and Jane Craig, the news producing protagonist of James L. Brooks' 1987 ...
Writer/director Brooks is knowing about the wisecracks, back-stabbings, political shifts, and innate decencies of the media game, and underpinning what is a cha
Broadcast News was a great satirical film when it first came out in 1987 and this still applies 29 years later in 2016. This a real testament to both how news has always been bad and the accuracy of the criticism tossed at the news. A truly biting satire, Broadcast News takes a look at ethics, entertainment, and "real journalism", as well as ...
Released in December 1987, the James L. Brooks dramedy is a bittersweet, still-timely look at the people who produce the news. Thirty years later, its creators reflect on the film's legacy.
Picture 7/10. James L. Brooks' Broadcast News gets the Criterion treatment on Blu-ray, the film presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1 on this dual-layer disc in a new 1080p/24hz hi-def transfer. While the image is just as sharp as can be and never falters in this area, the image does look flat and never truly impresses.
Acclaimed writer, producer, director James L. Brooks (winner of 19 Prime Time Emmy Awards and one of just seven people to win Best Picture, Director and Screenplay Oscars for a single movie (Terms of Endearment - 1983) ) gave us this intelligent and witty movie about a love triangle set in the world of television journalism in 1987.Many of the problems he highlights in Broadcast News have ...
Popular reviews. More. Griffin Newman ★★★★★ 4. A movie about the burden of being smart enough to know that you'll never be truly happy. Sean Gilman ★★★★★ 10. Get out while you can still cry. Holly Hunter cries all through the film, though usually only at certain scheduled times and places. Until the end, when she chooses ...
The three main leads - Holly Hunter as Jane, William Hurt as Tom, and Albert Brooks as Aaron - come off real people to me. They each have their goals and their flaws, but they never come off as crude. Even Tom's twist near the end makes sense despite it betraying the earnestness he had cultivated throughout the movie.
9. Debra Winger pulled out of starring in the film at short notice when she became pregnant. Broadcast News' lead female character Jane Craig was actually written for Debra Winger, who had already worked with director James L. Brooks to Academy Award-winning effect on his 1983 film Terms of Endearment. Unfortunately, Winger had to pull out of ...
Check out Karan and Alex's thoughts on Broadcast News (1987) from the "Movies That Shaped Our Love of Film pt.3" episode. Want more? Listen to the full episo...
Dating Nightly: Directed by Katiana Duplessis. With Jonathan Butts, Rashad Irvin, Nedge Victome. Latasha is a professional nightly news anchor who's slowly driven to insanity when the live broadcast of a date goes horrifically wrong.
Cable news networks continued to see a campaign 2024 ratings bounce in August, which saw the Democratic National Convention and a tightened presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
Atlanta Braves fans will get the opportunity to go down memory lane when "One of Kind," which tells the story of hall of fame starting pitcher Greg Maddux airs Sunday night at 8 p.m. EST on ...
Elsewhere on The Daily Show, the Best F**king News Team, including Jordan Klepper, gave their takes on the DNC's "small town values." The show also tapped Jason Bateman to narrated a clip ...
The movie is heavily indebted to the teen gross-out comedies of the late 1990s and early 2000s, like "American Pie" and "Van Wilder," which were themselves indebted to the teen sex ...