Wednesday, February 22, 2006
DVD NEWS: All the President's Men
Warner Bros. just issued a new, special-edition version of "All the President's Men," available on DVD, with many new features. Read the full review here:
The updated two-disc DVD delivers a sharper version of the film -- allowing a new generation to watch Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford banging on typewriters and traveling door-to-door to interview sources, long before computers or e-mail. For the first time, "Men" also comes with several quality extra features that place the issues raised by the film -- about both journalism and politics -- in contemporary context. "If Watergate happened today, for several reasons, it probably wouldn't be exposed," says Newsweek Senior Editor Jonathan Alter, one of several journalists interviewed during several featurettes, "which is kind of scary."An excellent film to begin with, this DVD seems to make it that much more worthwhile.
