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 36, Justin and I discuss the cinema of the mundane; President's fitting the brief of the Manny Farmer/Nathan Lee descriptor - "termite art", and somehow Voldemort supporting/journalist hack Rita Skeeter from Harry Potter.

About Justin Chang

Justin Chang is a film critic for the Los Angeles Times and for NPR's "Fresh Air," and a regular contributor to KPCC's "FilmWeek." Before joining The Times, he was chief film critic at Variety. He is the author of the book "FilmCraft: Editing" and serves as chair of the National Society of Film Critics and secretary of the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. In 2014 he received the inaugural Roger Ebert Award from the African-American Film Critics Assn. A Southern California native and USC graduate, he lives with his wife and daughter in Pasadena.

Twitter: @JustinCChang

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All The President's Minutes - Minute 36 with Justin Chang