The Graduate

Mike Nichols

First class entertainment comedy with serious overtones. Director Mike Nochols delves into incest, alienation, the generation gap, a deja vu critique of suburban society. A virtuoso performance from Anne Bancroft with Dustin Hoffman in his debut role. Classic Simon and Garfunkel music makes The Graduate the trend-setter of many American social comedies. Despite its vintage, the ideas have never been more relevant. Wednesday 29 March 2.15 pm.

All the Presidents Men

Alan Pakula

An account of the events following the Watergate break-in as reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein track the burglars to the White House. A significant event in the rebirth of investigative reporting and the free press. Redford and Hoffman play the dynamic duo in a deliberate low-key manner for the sake of realsim and faithfulness to the actual events.

Authentic to the Washington Post's waste paper, the film is a remarkable distillation of the original book. Director Allen J. Pakula transforms a drab series of events into a tense documentarylike drama. Thursday 30 March 5.00 pm.

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