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Originally Posted by MUAHAHAHAHAHA
I haven't watched Alan J.Pakula's other works apart from Sophie's Choice.
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All the President's Men is a remarkable adaptation of Woodward and Bernstein's book. It could have been a dull recounting of their exposure of the Watergate cover-up, but Pakula gives it the pacing of a suspenseful thriller. I lived through all those events, of course, and read the book soon after it was published, yet still found the movie compelling and enjoyable.
Redford's performance as the WASPy Woodward is quite good, too, especially in the way he plays off of Dustin Hoffman's very Jewish Bernstein. Redford is a pretty decent actor, but most of his roles haven't exploited his talents. Of his films, my favorites are
The Candidate (still relevant today),
Three Days of the Condor, and his two collaborations with Paul Newman and George Roy Hill,
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (though I could have done without the bicycle scene), and
The Sting.