There are plenty of films on display here at the Telluride Film Festival this weekend with strong political connections such as documentaries like Charles Ferguson’s multi-part Watergate – Or How We Learned To Stop An Out-of-Control President (any similarity to present-day is clearly intentional); Ed Zwick’s Trial By Fire which strongly advocates for changes in the Texas criminal justice system and is a movie former Governor and current Trump cabinet secretary Rick Perry will not be pleased with; Reversing Roe (an argument against politicizing abortion); and even Universal’s Neil Armstrong film, First Man which caused an absurdly ridiculous dust-up on the internet (from Marco Rubio among others who haven’t seen it) that it was not paying proper respect to the planting of the American flag on the moon.
The latter is truly an absurd, politically motivated charge for a superb film from director Damien Chazelle that, otherwise,...
The latter is truly an absurd, politically motivated charge for a superb film from director Damien Chazelle that, otherwise,...
- 9/2/2018
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
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