Kara Swisher's Favorite Films About Journalism
Renowned tech writer Kara Swisher spoke to IMDb at SXSW 2024 and shared her favorite films about journalism.
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- DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsDustin HoffmanRobert RedfordJack Warden"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.It was a great book and it was a better movie, actually. It depicted the hunt of a story and was just great, thrilling, exciting. It holds up. I just watched it recently, and it was fantastic.
- DirectorTom McCarthyStarsMark RuffaloMichael KeatonRachel McAdamsThe true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.It showed sort of how to tackle journalism and made it interesting, about the child sex abuse scandal in the Catholic church in Boston. A really terrific movie.
- DirectorMarielle HellerStarsMelissa McCarthyRichard E. GrantDolly WellsWhen Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.This one is about plagiarism. Melissa McCarthy was fantastic. She had kind of that dyspeptic, journalist-y kind of writer thing and I thought that was great.
- DirectorCord JeffersonStarsJeffrey WrightSkyler WrightJohn AlesA novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.I have to say 'American Fiction,' which is not about journalism, it's about writing. I think it's the unsung movie of this year. I did a good interview with Cord Jefferson, who wrote it. It's perfection, as a movie.
