| NZFF 2011: 'PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES' - Andrew Rossi |
| Written by COUP DE MAIN |
| Monday, 27 June 2011 22:49 |
 'PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES' 2011 l 88 mins DIRECTOR: Andrew Rossi. CAST: Sarah Ellison, David Carr, Tim Arango, Brian Stelter, Bruce Headlam, Richard Pérez-Peña, Clay Shirky, Alex S. Jones, Ian Fisher, Noam Cohen, Susan Chira, Bill Keller. "Not long ago, a headline in The Onion read, ‘Report: Majority Of Newspapers Now Purchased By Kidnappers To Prove Date’. It’s not quite as bad as that, but the plight at which the satirical paper is poking fun is very real for newspapers across the western world, and it sits at the centre of the insightful Page One: Inside the New York Times. As the daily ‘fight to get on A1’, the hallowed front page, plays out, Andrew Rossi plants his camera for the most part at the Times’s media desk. It is a good place from which to watch the Gray Lady, as the world’s most famous newspaper is known, and the industry as a whole, grapple with the twin demons of advertising decline and digital revolution – leaving, in the words of one editor, ‘a culture that is having what we do completely ripped open’. The exploits of two species of ‘hack’ – the chippy, old-school media columnist David Carr and his Twittertastic colleague Brian Stelter – show them to be as indispensable as each other. Along the way, the film touches on a host of subjects that make journalists lie awake at night. There is an eyebrow-raising telephone conversation between Stelter and WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange (and a debate about whether Assange should be classed as partner or source); discussion of the Times’s struggle to retain its ‘paper of record’ status in the wake of the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal; and, much more gravely, the journalism of Judith Miller that propped up the Bush administration’s case for invading Iraq. Throughout, of course, runs the biggest question of the lot – how do you pay for it all? — TM" Watch the trailer for 'Page One: Inside The New York Times' below...    The 2011 NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL runs from July 14th to July 31st in AUCKLAND, July 29th to August 14th in WELLINGTON, August 4th to August 21st in DUNEDIN, August 11th to August 28th in CHRISTCHURCH, August 18th to September 4th in PALMERSTON NORTH, August 25th to September 11th in HAMILTON, September 1st to September 18th in NELSON, September 8th to September 24th in TAURANGA, September 15th to September 28th in NEW PLYMOUTH, September 21st to October 9th in HAWKE'S BAY, October 13th to October 19th in GREYMOUTH, October 27th to November 9th in MASTERTON, November 3rd to November 16th in GISBORNE, and from November 10th to November 20th in KERIKERI. Click HERE for the official NZ Film Festival website and to sign up for their mailing list. |
