Extended Reading
  • Makenzie 2022-10-10 21:01:16

    [Film Review] Broadcast News (1987) 7.9/10

    Four years after having homered in the Oscar race with TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983), James L. Brooks released BROADCAST NEWS, his much-anticipated sophomore feature film and again it became a big player and reaped 7 Oscar nominations, only to get the goose egg in the end of the game.

    Set in the...

  • Herminio 2022-10-10 21:39:12

    Thinking about Type

    When I first watched it, I felt that the film was a bit untyped in terms of narrative. But after careful consideration, this view seems somewhat untenable. Its non-typing is more derived from the confusion of types. At least in this film, we can see the mashup of three types. The first is...

Broadcast News quotes

  • [Watching Aaron's flop sweat attack]

    News Producer: This is more than Nixon ever sweated.

  • Jane Craig: So you like me, huh?

    Tom Granick: I like you as much as I can like anyone who thinks I'm an asshole.