Good Night, and Good Luck

To round off the weekend I saw Good Night, and Good Luck. George Clooney’s second film as a director tells the story of Edward R Murrow’s crusade against Senator Joe McCarthy.

It feels more like a play than a movie. The Ho said to me on Friday that it was like ‘Glengarry Glen Ross without the swearing’. There’s a lot of archive footage at times. Perhaps too much, judging by several walk outs during the screening I was in. Shot in black and white and relying heavily on dialogue it’s certainly not going to be to everyone’s tastes. The B & W and the archive really adds to the realism of the piece though.

David Strathairn is brilliant as Murrow and Clooney gives a great understated turn as his producer Fred Friendly. I had worried throughout that Jo was bored by it, but she said she found it really interesting.

Here’s Wikipedia references for Edward R. Murrow and Joseph McCarthy.