And by and the annual Financial Support of hello, im john lithgow. Welcome to American Cinema, a 1opart series that looks at a Great American Success Story of the 20th century. American film is international, popular the world over. From japan to france to brazil, their appeal is universal. What makes a hollywood movie a hollywood movie . Is it the story . Is it the style . Or is it the director . Well, its all of these and more. For almost a hundred years, the american Film Industry has produced films that have Truly Engaged the audience. Pure entertainment, these films are a sophisticated art form, using highly skilled craftsmen and technological knowhow. The style of these films, perfected in the 20s and 30s, isnt easy to see. In fact the classic hollywood style is almost invisible. But that is its aim to make you, the audience, so involved with the story, so identified with characters that you dont notice the sets, the camera angles or the editing, any of the filmcraft that created
At the top of the show, we asked, why are you awake . We have a lot of interesting responses today. John tower has a few. Hey, john. Darren writes, my fake i recall grend is in town early today. On twitter, im up because i thought i saw you walking on garden street a few years ago. Am i right if i think you probably are right. Lets face it, with no makeup and no suit, i dont look very good on the street, so you might not have thought it was me, but it actually was. All right, john, thank you very much. Morning joe begins right now. Its vince with shamewow youll be using this towel every time to wipe away your shame. Dont worry, shamewow wipes it away like that. Lied about doping and threw everyone under the bus . Just insert one end of your ear and pull it out the other end. Look at that, shame is gone. Shamewow works for every shame at any time. Lipsync the national anthem, pooped your big boy pants, expose your crown jewels, tenweek marriage, sorry for party rockin . Dont worry. Sham
If he cant rally people to a great cause. He goes into the storm now with conservatives and republicans about to have a important debate about the future of our party. Hawks or buzzards . Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews down in washington. Let me start tonight with this. The boiling hatred of the american right poured over today in hearings on chuck hagels nomination to be secretary of defense. Hatred, pure and simple. From the mouths of john mccain and Lindsey Graham as they slashed away at war hero hagel. Badgering the witness is too nice a description. The hawks swirled like buzzards sweeping down, pecking and pulling at the skin of a former colleague who dared to say this countrys been too ready to enter wars the American People quickly wish wed never gotten into. Whats with this hatred now centered in the american sunbelt . What do we make of this poll that shows two out of three Texas Republicans now want our president impeached . Why the cussedness, why the r
Biden and his son hunter that might damage ump froms potential 2020 rival who has apparently taken up rental space inside Donald Trumps head. Giulianis plan to go to ukraine was corruption in plain sight. Before he backed out on tv giuliani told the times quote we are not meddling in an election we are meddling in an investigation which we have a right to do. All right. Despite cancelling the trip the president sent a message to ukraine that collusion is not something they will be hiding. And on sunday he said it would be appropriate for him to launch an investigation into joe biden and his son. Joining me chris advance, and malcolm nance, author the plot to destroy democracy and an msnbc legal analyst glen krishner. Thank you all of you. I want to start at the table. The impetus for deciding that collusion is not going to be hidden anymore, they are going to do it openly now. The predecessor is william barr, consignaturely year to the president and u. S. Attorney general who said the
Now on bbc news, take a front row seat as mark kermode looks back at the big cinema releases of the year in review 2019 the year in film. And a warning this film contains some flash photography. Hi, im mark kermode. Were here at the Cinema Museum in south london. Over the next half an hour, ill be looking back at some of the best movies released in uk cinemas in 2019. Films from around the world, from big budget blockbusters to smaller indie gems, from widescreen full colour spectacle to more intimate black and white experimentation. As always, 2019 kicked off with awards season and the uk release of several films that opened in america in 2018 in time to qualify for the oscars. In a weird echo of the 1990 academy awards, when driving miss daisy won best picture for which category spike lees infinitely superior do the right thing wasnt even nominated this year, the likeable but bland green book beat blackkklansman to the top prize. Although spike lee did triumph in the screenplay categ