The Candidate
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Director: Michael Ritchie
1972 / 110min / 35mm
“An under-appreciated film that borrows documentary-style techniques and puts Robert Redford on the other side of the power dynamic, asking how politicians can maintain their morals when they control the levers of power.” —Kimberly Reed
With the race for the seat of popular incumbent California Senator Crocker Jarmon all but decided, the Democrats convince charismatic public interest lawyer Bill McKay (Robert Redford) to run against Jarmon with the caveat that McKay can speak his mind completely—which, unexpectedly, wins the dark horse candidate a growing following. A scathing satire of political skullduggery in the Nixon-era capturing the widespread disillusion of the day, with a trenchant screenplay by Jeremy Larner, one-time speechwriter for presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy."
Introduction from filmmaker Kimberly Reed on Sunday, October 27th
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