George Clooney's
Good Night, and Good Luck will open the 43rd New York Film Festival, September 23 - October 9, 2005.
"For his second film, George Clooney has taken on a challenging subject and succeeded brilliantly," said Richard Pena, Chairman of the New York Film Festival Selection Committee. "Shot in beautiful black and white,
Good Night, and Good Luck superbly captures the look and feel of the era while delivering a stirring story with striking contemporary relevance."
"A longtime dream project for Clooney,
Good Night, and Good Luck is a suspenseful war of nerves set in the high-stakes environment of the 1950s news room, at a time when the social, cultural, and commercial influence of television was rapidly growing, together with a Cold War atmosphere of fear and paranoia stoked by the infamous investigations of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
"All my life," says Clooney... "I have been fascinated with what are probably the great three moments in American journalism: Murrow taking on McCarthy; Walter Cronkite stepping from behind his desk (something he had never done before), pointing to the map of Vietnam and saying, 'This is a mistake'; Woodward and Bernstein exposing Watergate.
"Murrow," he continues, speaking passionately, "is what we don't have now. That one voice that everyone listens to. We knew that he wasn't a communist, as McCarthy accused him of being. He'd been reporting from the Blitz, telling us the explosions looked like puffs of white rice on black velvet; we trusted him."
"The screenplay by George Clooney and Grant Heslov is based on the actual events and follows broadcasting legend Murrow, played by [David] Strathairn, and his producer, Fred Friendly, played by Clooney, during the historic confrontations of the House Un-American Activities Committee anti-Communist hearings. It tells the story of how Murrow exposed the deceit, bullying and manipulation of the then-powerful McCarthy in one of history's most courageous moments of journalism."
Warner Independent Pictures will release the PG-rated
Good Night, and Good Luck in October 2005. The film is a Section Eight Production presented by Warner Independent Pictures, 2929 Entertainment, and Participant Productions in association with Davis Films, Redbus Pictures and Tohokushinsha.
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