All the President’s Men (1976) with Michael Bierut

President Richard M. Nixon resigned August 9, 1974, and fifty years later the events surrounding his time in office still reverberate. Chief among them, the Watergate scandal and reporting by The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein who began their work in 1972, dramatized in All the President’s Men. Pentagram Partner Michael Bierut explains why the movie matters, and praises William Goldman’s adaptation of the original story by Woodward and Bernstein. Plus, learn about Goldman’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Marathon Man, and The Princess Bride, as well as David Fincher’s Zodiac with some Radiohead and The Social Network thrown into the mix. We also discuss cinematographer Gordon Willis, who worked on All the President’s Men and was featured in the documentary Keepers of the Magic.