Ron Howard’s movie Frost/Nixon is that rarest of things: a film that not only replicates the brilliance of the stage play that inspired it, but transcends the original. Peter Morgan’s drama about the unforgettable interviews between David Frost and former President Nixon in 1977 gives Howard magnificent source material, to which he adds all the energy and pace of modern film-making. Michael Sheen and Frank Langella as interviewer and interviewee respectively are irreproachably brilliant and even more combative than they were in the theatre, the close-ups of both men bringing much tension and nuance to the cinematic feast. The flashback structure involving interviews with the actors playing the principals works well, too, as does the mise en scene of the sweaty, adrenalin-charged filming sessions. As Frost himself has admitted, there is much elision, embellishment and downright fiction to speed things along, but the core of the drama remains authentic and riveting: can the cornered middle market television personality best the disgraced Commander-in-Chief in their final contest over Watergate? Unmissable.
Free screening offer for CoffeeHousers
To celebrate the release of the Ron Howard’s political thriller Frost/Nixon in cinemas Jan 23, The Spectator have teamed up with Universal Pictures to give you and your friends the chance to see the film first and for free.
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 stageplay are Frank Langella, who won a Tony for his portrayal of Nixon, and Michael Sheen, who fully inhabited the part of Frost onstage in London and New York.
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