The pacing is also hit and miss, sometimes things are paced fine, and sometimes I felt it jumped around too quickly. I personally didn't like how they opened it, they opened it in a spot where a lot of things already happened, but to be fair the film does go back and explains things. But there were things I didn't like, and I will discuss it. The cinematography was also top notch, what can be expected from and HBO movie. I found the framing device to be interesting and Al Pacino's performance was great, I didn't see Al Pacino, I saw his character. I did enjoy the Paterno scenes where he is confronted on the charges and how he deals with it, though it can be a little slow. The film did not shy away from the tough aspects of this tough subject. At the beginning, it starts with the indictment so I was worried we wouldn't give enough background going back to 1998, but thankfully the film has many flashbacks and the reporters are also used as an explanation device of the past. I liked many things about it but I also didn't like some things, and I'll talk about that. Only in New York, kids, only in New York.While its not another HBO masterpiece, I found it interesting enough to watch the whole thing and enjoyed it.
NYPD inspector: “Never buy a television set from a guy who’s out of breath.” Could be yours for a whole truckload of pennies - $67,500. Like one small colorful metal pennybank with movable parts from 1869. Owner Ray Haradin collects old-time banks. Save your penniesīeing Income Tax season, be it known in Oldwick, NJ, exists antique shop Gemini. Tuesday dinner time high-class high-priced Cipriani’s at 59th and Fifth had a mechanical fire. The title’s “The Devil and Father Amorth.” Things heat up at haunt I’m told he filmed an actual exorcism in Italy performed by the late Father Gabriele Amorth, a k a the Vatican Exorcist, who had conducted such a spiritual cleansing and subsequent blessing several times before. It starred Ellen Burstyn, Max Von Sydow and very young Linda Blair.įriedkin is back. Nearly half a century ago, director William Friedkin, who has delivered little blockbusters like “The French Connection,” also created “The Exorcist.” That award winner was about a young girl supposedly possessed by an evil spirit whose healing came through efforts of a priest. Rooted in the early Catholic Church, its doings are being demystified in a full-length documentary wending our way this month. Coming is one on exorcism, the removal of evil spirits from a person’s being. Richard Plepler, CEO of HBO: “A great institution losing its way is a Shakespearean tragedy.” Spirit removal is baaaaack I was just at a film festival in Switzerland, and they were showing “Rain Man.” I was the guest of honor.” I finally saw ‘Rain Man’ again after it was out 30 years.
When I can do nothing more, I can’t watch it. Levinson, who won an Oscar for “Rain Man”: “Once a film is released, I never watch it again. He even asked, “What is sodomy?” His lawyer son said, “It’s a term of Greek literature.” Then you think, how did he not know? What didn’t he understand in front of his eyes? Paterno led a ritualistic kind of Asperger life. Considered him a jerk.” Levinson: “We filmed it all here and Yonkers and a school in Long Island. Al Pacino and Joe Paterno Getty Images AP Denial, outrage, then responsibility, remorse, then guilt. With this situation, he went back and forth. A savant who controlled the school, he graduated 85 percent of the students. Pacino, whose character’s makeup took an hour: “Since I go mainly by the text, first I had empathy for him. How’s this possible under JoePa’s leadership? What didn’t he see?” Pedophile Jerry Sandusky worked for Paterno 30 years. Levinson: “Filming this was Al Pacino’s idea. Today’s crime against humanity is abuse of women. Idolatry of the high and mighty proved more seductive than sexual abuse of innocent children. It shows how glory overrode the responsibility of protecting students - within his care - who were being molested. Great.ĭirector/producer/award winner Barry Levinson’s magnifying glass examines Penn State’s famous coach. On Saturday, please watch HBO’s “Paterno.” It’s terrific.
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