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Today's NYTimes 1176 Best Films was Robert Altman's

Secret Honor (1984)

This is a psychodrama.

One character.

Philip Baker Hall as Richard Nixon.

It is labeled as a 'myth'.

But, having lived through it, it had all the feel of reality to me. The historical benchmarks were quite familiar.

It is a tour de force by Hall. Not an impersonation. Somehow that makes it all the more powerful.

The one set play (which it was—in LA—before it was a film) is 'opened up' with the creative use of small security tv monitors that Hall plays with as he goes through his moves.

A bangup ending.

Highly recommended.

I will give this a 5 out of Netflix5.

Labels: best films