Continuing our theme of real life political events this week, we have George Clooney's best film as a director, Good Night and Good Luck, which portrayed the battle between Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1953, when Murrow and his newsroom decided to fight back against McCarthy's anti-communist crusade. It was filmed in black and white, recalling the look of actual TV news at the time, and David Strathairn was so good as Murrow that the longtime character actor was finally nominated for Best Actor for his performance here. It was a very pointed political film, one that took a clear point of view- although standing against McCarthy is hardly an unpopular position, at the time it made some waves and felt relevant in light of media criticism over its lack of scrutiny of the Bush administration's various scandals. It was a very good movie, and still Clooney's best, in my opinion.
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