Salon: 'The Movie Experience I Can't Forget' #15 - "JFK"

They are all good, but I thought everyone would be particularly interested in this one. Use the right/left arrows to view all the slides and essays.

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2010/07/23/moviegoing_memories_slide_show/slideshow.html

Slide show: The movie experience I can't forget
Writers and filmmakers recall the sights, sounds and feelings that stay with them long after the lights come up

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"JFK," 1991
Northpark Cinema 1 & 2, Dallas

I spent most of my youth in Dallas, the city where John F. Kennedy was shot dead on Nov. 22, 1963. It is impossible to overstate how heavy the assassination weighed on the people of Dallas — not just because it was a national trauma that happened in our backyard, but also because Dallas is a deeply conservative city that mostly hated Kennedy (an often-evaded fact that deepened the city's guilt and shame).

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Then Oliver Stone came to town.

If you were alive and awake before and after the release of Stone's 1991 paranoid thriller "JFK," you surely read or heard numerous, intense arguments about the veracity of Stone's research and the ethics of his filmmaking. And throughout the first two hours of Stone's three-hour epic, that's what I was thinking about: the politics, the technique, the intent.

Then came the Zapruder film sequence.

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Then came the killing shot, and for a few seconds a hush fell over the movie — and the audience.

"Back and to the left," Garrison told the courtroom. "Back and to the left. Back ... and to the left."

All you heard was Garrison's voice and that clattering projector.

And the sound of one person crying.

And another. And another.

The crying became sobbing. With each passing second it grew in scope and intensity — a wave of horror and sadness that started somewhere in the back of the theater and rippled forward, passing through every row, every section, and finally breaking in the front, where I heard a woman gasp, "Oh, my God...."

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for years in some circles the word Dallas "stood out" in a sentence like the word Fuck.

The Men Who Killed Kennedy is a 9-part video documentary series about the John F. Kennedy assassination by Nigel Turner<1> that began with two 50 minutes segments originally aired on 25 October 1988 in the United Kingdom, titled simply Part One and Part Two.

The programmes were produced by Central Television for the ITV network, and were immediately followed by a studio discussion on the issues titled The Story Continues, chaired by broadcaster Peter Sissons. The United States corporation, Arts & Entertainment Company, purchased the rights to the original two segments.

In 1989, the series was nominated for a Flaherty Documentary Award. The series was re-edited with additional material into three 50 minute programmes in 1991, which were again shown by ITV. A sixth episode appeared in 1995. The series typically aired in November every year, but also from time to time during the year as repeats.

But in November, 2003, when three additional segments ("The Final Chapter") were added by the History Channel, the consequences were so immense that the entire series is no longer aired, though the History Channel still sells DVD copies of the first six documentaries


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Killed_Kennedy

All nine episodes can be seen online for free at


http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-men-who-killed-kennedy/


DU own and radio personality Thom Hartman is even interviewed and explains his findings
in one of the episodes