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All the President's Men (Archive)

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Adam Kempenaar & Josh Larsen

Film Reviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Next week on the show, Adam and Josh will honor the passing of Robert Redford with their Top 5 Redford Movies. A title that is sure to make the cut is Best Picture nominee ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, which was part of 2021's 7 From '76–Best Year Ever series. It was also notably the first film in the Filmspotting Pantheon to receive the Sacred Cow treatment. Access to the Filmspotting Archive is just one of the benefits of joining the Filmspotting Family. Family members also get monthly bonus episodes, a weekly newsletter, early and ad-free episodes, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What kind of a show are you guys putting on here today?

0:06.4

You're not interested in art?

0:07.6

No.

0:08.0

Well, look, we're going to do this thing.

0:09.4

We're going to have a conversation.

0:12.9

Adam Robert Redford on our minds, of course, with his recent passing and the top five Robert Redford movies lists that we're both working on for our upcoming show.

0:25.8

Fair to say all the president's men is a lock for that list.

0:31.4

It's definitely not one we have to do homework on because we recently talked about it on the show.

0:37.0

Just a couple of years ago, we did

0:39.5

in all the president's men review as part of our seven from 76 best year ever series.

0:46.7

And it happens to be one of those movies that even for that review, I may not have needed

0:51.9

to rewatch it because I probably have seen it about a hundred

0:55.5

times or certainly scenes from it. I love the movie that much, but I do remember rewatching

1:00.5

it for that conversation because of course I would. And like all of those sacred cow conversations,

1:06.4

any kind of revisit, you see new things every time. And I remember digging into some scenes in particular.

1:14.1

It was a very rewarding rewatch. Hopefully it was a rewarding listen then and will be now. That 7 from 76 series was a good one.

1:23.8

We talked about taxi driver, network, Rocky. We saw a movie that I think we both

1:28.4

watched for the first time. Car wash. Barbara Coppals, Harlan County, USA was one that I had seen

1:35.4

many times before, or at least multiple times, but we had to include it and another new one,

1:40.9

Chantelle Ackerman's News from Home. So a great series and all the President's Men was a

1:45.3

cornerstone of it. We hope you enjoy this conversation and we remind you that the Film Spotting

1:52.2

Archive access to it is just one of the benefits you get as a member of the FilmSpotting

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