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60 of 169 · most liked firstGot to usher in my birthday by showing my partner Broadcast News, a perfect film. Great start.
positive · AI labelView post →Ella McCay is a visible mess that includes one of the worst I'm-back-for-the-reshoot wigs in film history but the thing is, James L. Brooks has not one but four lifetime passes (MTM, Simpsons, Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News), so maybe you will watch this some night and remember those and smile.
neutral · AI labelView post →“He’s literally the William Hurt character from the movie ‘Broadcast News,’ one staffer told me about Tony Dokoupil. That same staffer also shared an anecdote about then-CBS president Susan Zirinsky telling Dokoupil "we will carry you" after promoting him to CBS Mornings. zeteo.com/p/how-tony-d...
neutral · AI labelView post →it is actually a poster of the 1987 film "Broadcast News." i'm not familiar with Akira but i'll look it up on Youtube
neutral · AI labelView post →Realizing William Hurt & Holly Hunter share a birthday (3/20), I've gotta add James L. Brooks' brilliant BROADCAST NEWS (1987) to my rewatch list. Perfect foils in the network news game, both were at the top of their craft. Both recieved leading Oscar noms. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching BROADCAST NEWS (1987). Director: James L. Brooks. William Hurt, Holly Hunter. For Brooks' birthday, revisiting a fave. Up for 7 Oscars, including a nod for everyone on the poster. Smart & literate. #filmsky 📽 Criterion Collection 552
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching AS GOOD AS IT GETS (1997). Director: James L. Brooks. Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt. In my world, Brooks' TERMS OF ENDEARMENT & BROADCAST NEWS are pitch perfect. This follow-up always felt more cartoonish to me. Let's see if my mind has changed. Nicholson & Hunt won Oscars. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched Broadcast News, the most perfect movie of all time.
positive · AI labelView post →What’s your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 80s - Broadcast News 90s - A League of Their Own 00s - Zodiac 10s - Arrival 20s - Petite Maman
neutral · AI labelView post →. 45 Days of Great Movies The Election Will Be Over (we hope) in 38 Days. That's 38 More Days of #GreatMovies . #8 "Broadcast News"
neutral · AI labelView post →Who knew the movie Broadcast News was actually the canary in the coal mine?
neutral · AI labelView post →PTA quoting Broadcast News in his best film acceptance speech 😍😍😍
neutral · AI labelView post →For #FirstPageFriday, I'm gonna jump into the Wayback Machine to serve up the actual FIRST script page I ever wrote (c.1988): FILM AT ELEVEN-- a comedy about a sleezy guy who turns a last place station into a ratings powerhouse via "creative reporting." 😎 #scriptsky USED CARS meets BROADCAST NEWS
neutral · AI labelView post →With Alt text, though I am wholly unconvinced that St. Augustine said this. The film "Broadcast News", however:
neutral · AI labelView post →Didn't the film "Broadcast News" warn us about this?
neutral · AI labelView post →If you have not seen the movie "Broadcast News" with William Hurt and Holly Hunter, check it out. Especially if you are planning to praise a news anchor.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight on Criterion Channel: Defending Your Life with Albert Brooks, who was in my second favorite movie of all time ~ which might actually be my first favorite but I’ve pledged my eternal allegiance to When Harry Met Sally ~ Broadcast News.
neutral · AI labelView post →‘Broadcast News’ is on Disney Plus! Yet the first suggestion on my comedy tab is one of the “Honey, I Shrunk” movies - and not even the original!
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminds me of a bit in the film “Broadcast News”: one of Holly Hunter’s bosses says,sarcastically,”It must be nice always being the smartest person in the room.” “No,” she says. “It’s awful.” Madam VP must feel that way about being right about everything.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s WHAT ARE WE WATCHING (WHILE THE WORLD BURNS)? movie: James L. Brooks’ BROADCAST NEWS (1987)
neutral · AI labelView post →Trying to write something about Broadcast News and I can’t tell if I’m struggling due to brain exhaustion or because I’ve had so many thoughts on this movie for so long
neutral · AI labelView post →Best film about television ever made. Broadcast News is a close second though.
neutral · AI labelView post →if you really must, "Broadcast News is one of the best films, if not the best film, of the 1980s" works. But I also agree with what Benjamin Dreyer says here:
neutral · AI labelView post →Just to show that pride had no place in this party, I'll throw up a page from my very first script, written back around 1989. FILM AT ELEVEN is what happens if USED CARS had a stupid child with BROADCAST NEWS. It's ragged as all hell, yet I still love it. #FirstPageFriday #Scriptsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Ok I needed something lighter after that. Last movie tonight is Broadcast News, which I’ve somehow never watched before.
neutral · AI labelView post →FILM AT ELEVEN was the first feature I ever wrote back around 1988. BROADCAST NEWS had been a big hit the year before, I was laughing at the idea of pushing that way into full-0on rowdy satire territory, so I basically said "what if USED CARS and BROADCAST NEWS had a lovechild?" Boom.
neutral · AI labelView post →Are you interested in being an amateur media critic like me? Your curriculum: 1. The movie NETWORK 2. The movie BROADCAST NEWS 3. Brooke Gladstone's THE INFLUENCING MACHINE 4. Neil Postman's AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH 6. Follow jayrosen.bsky.social and froomkin.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Also, Fargo is a perfect movie, Empire was watched on Mark Hamill’s birthday coincidentally, and what’s not to love about Broadcast News?? #lastfourwatched
neutral · AI labelView post →#AugustMovieChallenge #FilmSky 20: female reporter or anchor in a movie Broadcast News - 1987
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite film for each year of the 1980s: 1980: The Shining 1981: Modern Romance 1982: Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan 1983: Vacation 1984: The Terminator 1985: Lost In America 1986: Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home 1987: Broadcast News 1988: Scrooged 1989: Heathers What are yours? #Filmsky 📽️🎞️🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →Having a hard time trying to decide on the film to assign my students in the week on Citizenship, Media and the Public Sphere. Current shortlist: CITIZEN KANE ACE IN THE HOLE ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN BROADCAST NEWS THE INSIDER NIGHTCRAWLER PREDATORS
neutral · AI labelView post →Share a great movie cameo! 🎥 Nicholson in BROADCAST NEWS.
neutral · AI labelView post →Taking a break from Christmas movies to watch Broadcast News (1987). I've been wanting to watch for a while. It came out the year I was born; I have a crush on William Hurt, and it was nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards. Also, the director James L. Brooks co-developed the Simpsons.
neutral · AI labelView post →Isn’t that what legacy media actually already is/was? Did you see film Broadcast News?
neutral · AI labelView post →Also, the movie "Broadcast News" may be dated technologically, but the story itself still holds up as the most accurate portrayal of the tensions and challenges of the industry I work in. Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks, William Hurt and Joan Cusack are amazing in it.
positive · AI labelView post →i watched Broadcast News (1987) tonight and spent the entire movie relating terribly hard to Holly Hunter's character while everybody else in the call referred to her as 'the most mentally ill woman of all time'. uh oh
neutral · AI labelView post →the Broadcast News poster from its release in Poland is the most gloriously insane thing ever?
neutral · AI labelView post →NETWORK, BROADCAST NEWS, and THE CBS EVENING NEWS WITH TONY DOKOUPIL are my favorite movie trilogy.
neutral · AI labelView post →In the immortal words of Aaron Altman (Albert Brooks) in Broadcast News (the greatest movie of all time), “I’m semi-serious here.”
neutral · AI labelView post →As I become more active here, I'm seeing that I should have done an #introduction post early on. So here it is. I'm a PhD Professor who once was a #PublicRelations exec, after having been a PIO for the state of #Georgia, a #BroadcastNews journalist, and (early on) a rock radio disc jockey. Seriously. Big fan of dark chocolate, cats, fiber arts and baking. Not fan of #Republicans these days, virulent narcissist billionaires, or brussels sprouts. Rarely really serious.
neutral · AI labelView post →For #AugustMovieChallenge by @omacolt.bsky.social #Filmsky #Moviesky #TVsky Day 20... female reporter or anchor in a movie, Broadcast News with Holly Hunter in this film, as I remember William Hurt weegiemidget.wordpress.com/remembrances...
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s time for everyone to watch the movie “ Broadcast News”.
neutral · AI labelView post →Broadcast News stays prophetic.
neutral · AI labelView post →I cannot resist repeating over and over how this guy is just Tom Grunick from Broadcast News but without a Jane Craig. I mean, Bari Weiss *thinks* she's Holly Hunter in that movie, but absolutely isn't.
neutral · AI labelView post →Is lowering your standards, just a tiny little bit, the secret to success in affairs of the heart and in BROADCAST NEWS (1987)? In this episode we discuss James L. Brooks's multi-Oscar-nommed film. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kz6...
neutral · AI labelView post →There was one of those prompt tweets a while back about “name a perfect film,” and this was absolutely the first to come to mind. She’s amazing in it. (Honorable mention to her delivery of the line “No, it’s awful” in Broadcast News)
neutral · AI labelView post →What was your first screenplay and why? FILM AT ELEVEN Written as *the* assignment (the only assignment) for a senior-level course in Advanced Screenwriting at UH hack in 1989. Imagine Zemeckis's USED CARS mixed with BROADCAST NEWS. For a first script, I remain kinda proud of it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just incredible This is the work of an old auteur & in film an authorial voice often gets lost when they get older But here pretty much from the first lines he’s back. You feel Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, Early Simpsons For those who love James L Brooks, it’s “Welcome home”
neutral · AI labelView post →First (feature) script: FILM AT ELEVEN, a comedy about a sleazy guy who turns around the lowest rated station in town by... creative means. USED CARS meets BROADCAST NEWS. Written as the semester grade for Advanced Screenwriting, senior class at Univ of Houston, c.1989. #FiveAfterFive #Scriptsky
neutral · AI labelView post →It's no Broadcast News or Pirmary Colors, but then again, no Sidney Lumet movie with Richard Gere, Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Julie Christie, Kate Capshaw, and JT Walsh can be all bad. Bonus for DC peeps: the early development of Union Market is a significant plot point.
neutral · AI labelView post →I didn’t mean for this to be a Broadcast News thread but now it is & I have only myself to blame, so I can’t resist saying for the thousandth time that it is a film about working in media and caring about that work that gets it exactly right and is as relevant as ever and you really should watch it.
positive · AI labelView post →But what’s his *best* film?📽️ Broadcast News Defending Your Life (that might call for a groupwatch) Mother My First Mister (hugely under-appreciated film with a LOT to say) There are so many….
neutral · AI labelView post →Someone’s going to have to have copious amounts of Xanax on hand when Brandi gets around to watching Broadcast News. youtu.be/MTEXVT8P354
neutral · AI labelView post →When I saw Broadcast News, I had no idea I’d end up working in live television myself. That bit where they rush the tape through the studio — I’ve seen that happen! Great movie. callsheetapp.com/movie/12626 #admitonedaily #movietickets #broadcastnews #1980smovies #jameslbrooks
positive · AI labelView post →I was hoping this would be good. Guess I'll watch Broadcast News again instead. "The truth is that Brooks’ off-kilter dialogue has always required a powerhouse performer like Debra Winger or Holly Hunter, someone who can grab the reins of the material and wrestle a beating human heart out of it."
neutral · AI labelView post →I spend Christmas watching social disruption cinema. My fave New Year’s Eve movie is Broadcast News. obs.
neutral · AI labelView post →FILM AT ELEVEN. A rowdy comedy that is basically USED CARS meets BROADCAST NEWS, written as "the assignment" for a serious level screenwriting course at University of Houston. The prof seemed to think it showed actual talent and tried to get me to move to LA after that semester. I didn't. 🤣
neutral · AI labelView post →new film from James L. Brooks! director of Broadcast News and Terms of Endearment! I’m really excited for that one at least.
neutral · AI labelView post →Broadcast News-1987 Does it Hold Up? Surprisingly well. Despite an excellent cast including Jack Nicholson, William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Joan Cusack and others,I felt the film was absolutely carried by a nearly flawless performance by Holly Hunter, for which she was nominated for an Oscar. #Filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Broadcast News nailed this one in 1987…
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