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The Late Shift (1996)
A really good movie.
Alright, so maybe the impersonations of Jay Leno and David Letterman are not spot on, but you still get a sense of who these people are and how they operate behind the screen. Bob Balaban and Treat Williams are excellant as Warren Littlefield and Micheal Ovitz.
The movie doesn't go for joke and punchline but it is still funny. Kathy Bates in particular is amazing as Leno's manager.
Funny, amazing, interesting, very watchable, this is a good TV movie.
The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)
Truely a great interpretation
While most film versions of Shakespeare's plays are stage productions captured on film, here we have a true film version of Macbeth. The cuts of the play give the film a short time and a controlled version. This is not a great play transferred to film, but a great film derived from a great play. The violence and blood of this film, so broadly mentioned in the 1970s, is almost laughable by today's standards of gore. The flim of that translates the themes of the play onto the cinema ingeniously.
It is now more than 30 years since the release of this film and it stands up today as well as it did then. Macbeth is a play that is almost always panned by the critics on the stage and film. Look, in the past 30 years there have been 10 versions of Hamlet, some have been good and some have been excellant (including the version by Mel Gibson of all people), but no other versions of this film, none that were any good anyway.