All The President's Minutes - Minute 22 with Manohla Dargis

All The President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute twenty-two host, Blake Howard joins, in his opinion, the greatest living film critic, Manohla Dargis. Blake and Manohla get so involved in the sprawling dissection of the scene that we forget to watch the minute at hand.

Manohla Dargis grew up in the East Village in New York, where she attended public school and was a frequent attendee at both St. Mark's Cinema and Theater 80. She started writing about movies professionally in 1987 while earning her M.A. in cinema studies at New York University. A class with the longtime Village Voice critic J. Hoberman led to her being hired to write about avant-garde cinema for the Voice. She has been the co-chief film critic for The New York Times since 2004. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband. (Bio via The New York Times).

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Twitter: @ManohlaDargis