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The special premieres on Friday, October 5 at 8pm Eastern time. The series programming includes two Frank Capra classics, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and "Meet John Doe," starring Jimmy Stewart and Gary Cooper respectively, and, of course, Alan J. Pakula's paranoid masterpiece and politics-journalism hybrid "All the President's Men."
A few notable films are missing from the list, including John Frankenheimer's "The Manchurian Candidate" and, oddly, Stone's "JFK."
TOH-ers, as polling draws near, what are some of your favorite flicks about politics?
Full schedule:
Friday, Oct. 5
8 p.m. – A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington (2012) – Premiere
9 p.m. – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
11:15 p.m. – A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington (2012) – Encore
12:15 a.m. – Meet John Doe (1941)
Friday, Oct. 12
8 p.m. – Born Yesterday (1950)
10 p.m. – A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington (2012) – Encore
11 p.m. – The Great McGinty (1940)
12:30 a.m. – I Married a Witch (1942)
Friday, Oct. 19
8 p.m. – A Face in the Crowd (1957)
10:15 p.m. – The Glass Key (1942)
11:45 p.m. – Flamingo Road (1949)
1:30 a.m. – A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington (2012) – Encore
Friday, Oct. 26
8 p.m. – Advise & Consent (1962)
10:30 p.m. – All the President's Men (1976)
1 a.m. – Seven Days in May (1964)
1 Comment
Brian | September 13, 2012 3:21 PM
Some of those choices are questionable, particularly I MARRIED A WITCH and FLAMINGO ROAD. Even A FACE IN THE CROWD is more about media than about politics. THE GLASS KEY is a clever choice, though, sort of the flip side of GREAT MCGINTY. I would have put in Capra's STATE OF THE UNION. A more recent film I'd recommend is Eddie Murphy's THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN (1992), an excellent political comedy about the United States Congress.
In graduate school, I did a paper on conspiracy cinema, connecting MR. SMITH and MEET JOHN DOE with Stone's JFK.