There’s never been an abundance of Hollywood films about journalism, and even an American landmark like “All The President’s Men” had long since faded from the national consciousness until this week, when investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein suddenly found themselves talking about Robert Redford again.
Redford died Tuesday at 89, having acted, directed, produced, and enabled all manner of cinematic artistry across six decades. There can be plenty of easily assembled arguments that “All The President’s Men” was not the best thing he’d ever done, but you won’t find one here.
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The movie drew eight Academy Award nominations, won four Oscars, and eventually found a place in the National Film Registry curated by the Library of Congress. It somehow