Classic Films Now: All the President's Men

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Run Time: 140 minutes. Recommended for ages 13+. A nation distrusts its institutions. News has become spectacle. Ordinary people fight to matter. Welcome to 1976. Academy Award winners Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star in this true story as Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, whose investigation of a seemingly minor hotel room break-in uncovers the greatest political scandal in United States history and leads to the downfall of President Richard Nixon. Classic Films Now brings major works of cinema back to the big screen, films that not only defined their own time but continue to speak to ours. Each installment of the series gathers a group of landmark films curated around a theme, period, artist, or movement, inviting audiences to discover how the works connect with contemporary life. This fall, Classic Films Now kicks off with a three-film series devoted to 1976, a remarkable year in American cinema and a revealing moment in the nation’s cultural imagination. Released in the shadow of Watergate, Vietnam, urban crisis, and the Bicentennial, All the President’s Men, Network, and Rocky offer three sharply different portraits of American life at a time of great transition and uncertainty. Screenings will be introduced and hosted by Rafer Guzmán. Rafer writes about movies, music, and popular culture for Newsday. He has been a film critic for WNYC, a co-host of the independent podcast “Movie Therapy,” and a staff writer at The Wall Street Journal.