Extreme Mortman (Free subscription) | yesterday
“Frost/Nixon” director Ron Howard and screenwriter Peter Morgan appeared on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” with host Steve Scully this morning. Quite an interesting observation from Howard about the movie and presumably President Bush: “It is great drama. It does not have a political ax to grind. And yet, it speaks to democracy, the media, the way [...]
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
"As with The Queen, screenwriter Peter Morgan once again pits a Michael Sheen underdog against a titanic adversary in Frost/Nixon, Sheen in this case embodying playboy cream puff British talk-show host David Frost, and his nemesis being Tricky Dick...
Lessons of Darkness (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
As with The Queen, screenwriter Peter Morgan once again pits a Michael Sheen underdog against a titanic adversary in Frost/Nixon, Sheen in this case embodying playboy cream puff British talk-show host David Frost, and his nemesis being Tricky Dick (Frank...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
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Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
Oscar®-winning director Ron Howard brings to the screen writer Peter Morgan's (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland) electrifying battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make, in the untold story of the historic encounter that changed both: Frost/Nixon . Reprising their roles from Morgan's...
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
When Ron Howard's big screen adaptation of the Peter Morgan play, Frost/Nixon , opens two weeks from today, a round of hosannas will greet the film's leads, Frank Langella (who plays the 37th POTUS in exile) and Michael Sheen (who plays talk show host David Frost). But here's hoping that some of the acclaim will be reserved for Kevin Bacon, who is by turns droll and downright creepy as Jack Brennan,...
Bubblegum Aesthetics (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Anyone catch "Frost/Nixon" when it played on Broadway in 2007? I did not, but heard good things, so I'm grateful that Ron Howard has adapted Peter Morgan's play for the big screen. And I'm very glad he's kept intact the show's casting of Michael Sheen (so good as the oily, passionate Tony Blair in The Queen , also written by Morgan) as David Frost, and the sad, magisterial, rather eerie Frank Langella...
Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Renée Fleming rubbed her fur-draped shoulders at NYC's Ziegfeld Theater on Monday night with the cast & crew from Ron Howard's latest film, Frost/Nixon. The Ziegfeld hosted the premiere of the film adaptation of the Peter Morgan play, which is...
RssDaily (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Toward the end of the film Frost/Nixon , based on the Peter Morgan play of the same name, Frank Langella 's Richard Nixon wonders whether his legacy will prevent young people from aspiring to a life in politics. "They'll think it's all just corrupt," he laments. "I always felt that line was powerful," director Ron Howard told the Daily Transom at the Four Seasons Monday evening, after the film's premiere...
Frankly My Dear... (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Here's a screen capture of the fellow playing the TV floor director in Ron Howard's film of Peter Morgan's play, Frost/Nixon. Clint Howard, Ron's brother, has been on screen with his sibling most of his life. He was the PB&J...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
You don't have to be a Nixon apologist to feel a twinge of pity for the disgraced former president depicted in the solidly entertaining "Frost/Nixon." Sharp-witted and venal, courtly and manipulative, the Richard M. Nixon of Peter Morgan's fine play is a figure of peculiar contradiction, rendered...
The Screening Log (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
Clint Eastwood is in negotiations to direct "Hereafter," a supernatural thriller for DreamWorks, according to Variety. Nothing at all is known about the plot at this point, although the trade says the film is described as in the vein of "The Sixth Sense." Peter Morgan, whose credits include "The Queen" and "Frost/Nixon," wrote the script. "Hereafter" would mark the first time Eastwood direct a film...
Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
Clint Eastwood is in talks to direct the supernatural thriller Hereafter for Dreamworks. The company is led by Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider, picked up the spec penned by Frost/Nixon screenwriter Peter Morgan in March when it was still a part of Paramount Pictures. Dreamworks held onto the project as part of its separation pact with the Melrose studio and has been wooing Eastwood to board the...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Still Working: Ageless wonder Clint Eastwood is in negotiations to direct DreamWorks' Hereafter . Written by Peter Morgan , the film's plot is being kept under wraps but is said to be in the same vein as The Sixth Sense , which make complete sense considering Morgan's past efforts of Frost/Nixon , The Queen , and The Last King of Scotland . We're expecting a historical drama about a world leader who...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Steven Spielberg is giving Clint Eastwood the hard sell on a supernatural thriller, something the grizzled action and drama vet Clint has never attempted. Hereafter was written by the hot-Brit writer of the moment, Peter Morgan, of The Queen and...
