Framed as a flashback from inside an MRI machine, the film covers the brief period from Paterno’s record-setting 409th gridiron victory, which made him “the winningest coach in the history of ...

Unimagined chaos would shortly engulf Joe Paterno, a storm presaged in the ominous symbols that mark the opening moments to director Barry Levinson’s made-for-TV film, which debuted Saturday.

Barry Levinson's HBO film is a propulsive blend of speed and restraint, moving quickly through a week in Happy Valley while methodically building a damning case. In the final act of “Paterno ...

Levinson points to a moment near the end of the film — the Penn State vs. Nebraska game that marked the first time in 60 years that Paterno would not be on the field — that illustrates the ...

Editor's Note: "Paterno," starring Al Pacino, airs on Saturday, April 7, at 8 p.m. on HBO. This account of events surrounding Coach Joe Paterno's firing at Penn State in wake of revelations about ...

One of them, I guess, would be Paterno's obsessive focus on football. At the very beginning of the film, Paterno is asked if he's seen the papers detailing the allegations against Sandusky ...

His latest film, HBO’s Paterno, seems to be the outlier though. The film opens with Joe Paterno (Al Pacino) receiving a CT scan – he’d been diagnosed with lung cancer – as he recalls the ...

We knew that. But there was a scene at the beginning of the film, staged during the 2011 Penn State-Illinois game (the game that gave Paterno his 409th career win, and his last game as coach ...

Two university officials would also be indicted. Paterno would not. But, as the film reveals, a man who had spent most of his adult life focused on winning football games — and reaping the ...

Don't Edit Don't Edit Where in the original, 900-pound bronze statue, Paterno was forever smiling and exultant, the football coach as portrayed by Al Pacino appears stern-faced in the HBO film ...

Paterno, played by Al Pacino in the film out April 7, was known as "The winningest coach in college football history." He might have co-coached the Pennsylvania State football team with Sandusky ...

The website reports Pacino is attached to play Joe Paterno in a biopic that is currently being pitched around Hollywood. The film would be based on the biography Paterno by Joe Posnanski.