TCM Convenes a Special Screening of All the President's Men
The 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival opens tonight with a 40th anniversary nod to the beloved Alan J. Pakula drama.
There was a lot of fun coverage earlier this month marking the 40th anniversary of the theatrical release of All the President’s Men, which hit screens April 9, 1976. Tonight, some folks on the West Coast will get to attend a belated birthday party in Hollywood as the 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival is set to open with a gala screening of the film and Q&A moderated by Ben Mankiewicz featuring Carl Bernstein as well as Spotlight director Tom McCarthy and his co-writer Josh Singer.
When Bernstein was asked by the Washington Post’s Michael Cavna to pick out his favorite shot from the film, he cited “the Library of Congress shot:”
The shot in question begins with a tight overhead of The Washington Post’s Watergate reporters, Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) and Bob Woodward (Robert Redford), as they painstakingly thumb through thousands of the library’s circulation file cards.
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