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Article: George Clooney movie to open New York Film Festival

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August 19, 2005
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AP Worldstream
08-19-2005
Dateline: NEW YORK
The New York Film Festival will say hello on opening night with "Good Night, and Good Luck," George Clooney's depiction of American TV news and anti-communism in the 1950s.

Clooney directs for just the second time (his first film was 2002's "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," about game show host Chuck Barris) and co-stars as CBS News producer Fred Friendly. David Strathairn plays Edward R. Murrow, who scrutinized Sen. Joseph McCarthy's communist witch hunt.

Among the other films playing during the 43rd annual festival, which runs from Sept. 23-Oct. 9 at Lincoln Center, is "Manderlay" by Danish director Lars von Trier. It's the second in his ...

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