‘Truth’ Review: Not A False Note In Film That Puts ‘60 Minutes’ Under The Knife

[RockaFowler]

http://deadline.com/2015/10/truth-review-robert-redford-dan-rather-cate-blanchett-1201577879/

It was a momentous time in journalism when a 2004 60 Minutes II piece questioning the military record of then-President George W. Bush blew up in everyone’s face and caused a mini-earthquake at CBS. And now the whole affair has been turned into a feature film based on 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes’ bestseller, Truth And Duty: The Press, The President And The Privilege Of Power. It has been 10 years since the book was published, but as I say in my video review (click the link above), the film version starring Cate Blanchett in a blistering turn as Mapes and Robert Redford as legendary CBS anchor Dan Rather is well worth the wait.

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What seemed like a solid piece — though rushed to air to be timely — turned out not so good when commenters on the Internet began questioning the authenticity of some key points. It started a firestorm. The whole thing became a black eye in CBS’ view and Mapes, and finally Rather, were basically thrown under the bus. It began Rather’s downfall at the network. Vanderbilt has meticulously laid it all out, without turning anyone into heroes or villains. What I found most interesting was this all happened just as the Internet was gaining power and turning journalism as we knew it on its face. Five or 10 years earlier, the outcome might have been quite different.



As a Redford fan I can't wait for this. Cate Blanchett is gonna kick a$$ on this part!!
So excited to see this . . . TRUTH!

[CincyDem]

1. Not available in "Boehner Country"

It's always interesting to see the politics of movie booking. Here in town, we have a couple mega-plexes that are up on the northside. They're also, coincidentally, on the southern end of Boehner's district. They have all the great movies, better seats, and better sound versus most of the older and/or smaller screen complexes in the area (that's just my opinion but the parking lots seem to confirm that).

Those two theaters ran American Sniper on 2 screens 24/7, or so it seemed.

Unfortunately, they seemed unable to book "Fair Game" (Valerie Plame story). When I asked one of the ticket takers up there when "Milk" would be showing there he just laughed and said "Here ? Are you kidding?"

So it should come as no surprise that "Truth" is similarly absent. It's getting the small theater/art house treatment.

Maybe that's because it's just not a great movie but the trend of how topical films get booked around her lead to a conclusion that it's just another case of making sure that people are only exposed to reinforcing messages - god forbid that we make someone think.

[UTUSN]

2. KKKarl and Chris WALLACE did a dastardly hit job on Dan RATHER last Sunday

KKKarl repeated all the junk about the typewriter and documents and WALLACE dug up his sainted father, the former not mentioning that the story was TRUE and the latter not mentioning his Daddy's own ambush history. The story was TRUE.

Yes, I will traipse to the theater to see the movie, something I only do about once per decade.

The story is TRUE.

[yellowcanine]

3. I don't think there is any question that the gist of the story was true.

But proving it, aside from hooking up electrodes to the testicles of Karl Rove, would be another matter.