This article contains details from real life events that will likely spoil upcoming episodes of HBO’s White House Plumbers.
Having learned most of what I know about the Watergate scandal from Mad magazine, it took me a while to realize White House Plumbers is a satire. The five-part HBO series telling the true story of the secret unit inside President Richard M. Nixon’s White House begins with The New York Times, not necessarily renowned for its comedic prowess. The story got the paper labeled as scions of “liberal media,” another term seemingly rendered spoof by the stringent journalistic standards of the periodical. The White House Plumbers pulled out their tools to stop the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, and hit a water main. It appears predestined they would get clogged at a place called the Watergate.
The limited series begins with a disclaimer warning none of the names...
Having learned most of what I know about the Watergate scandal from Mad magazine, it took me a while to realize White House Plumbers is a satire. The five-part HBO series telling the true story of the secret unit inside President Richard M. Nixon’s White House begins with The New York Times, not necessarily renowned for its comedic prowess. The story got the paper labeled as scions of “liberal media,” another term seemingly rendered spoof by the stringent journalistic standards of the periodical. The White House Plumbers pulled out their tools to stop the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, and hit a water main. It appears predestined they would get clogged at a place called the Watergate.
The limited series begins with a disclaimer warning none of the names...
- 5/2/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
The Television Academy Foundation named two new members to its board of directors: Nne Ebong, vice president of overall deals for series at Netflix, and Jamila Hunter, executive vice president of programming and development at Freeform. Both have been elected to three-year terms.
At Netflix, Ebong leads the development of original series under creative partnerships with Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland, Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions and others. She joined Netflix after serving as creative lead at film and television studio Wiip, where she developed and produced projects for cable, streaming and the international marketplace. Her projects at Wiip included HBO’s “The White House Plumbers” and Amazon’s “The Summer I Turned Pretty.” Ebong also developed series such as “Scandal,” “How to Get Away with Murder,” and “American Crime” while heading drama development for ABC Studios from 2013 to 2018.
Ebong’s humanitarian work includes being a “big sister” through...
At Netflix, Ebong leads the development of original series under creative partnerships with Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland, Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions and others. She joined Netflix after serving as creative lead at film and television studio Wiip, where she developed and produced projects for cable, streaming and the international marketplace. Her projects at Wiip included HBO’s “The White House Plumbers” and Amazon’s “The Summer I Turned Pretty.” Ebong also developed series such as “Scandal,” “How to Get Away with Murder,” and “American Crime” while heading drama development for ABC Studios from 2013 to 2018.
Ebong’s humanitarian work includes being a “big sister” through...
- 10/15/2021
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Patton Oswalt (A.P. Bio), Nat Faxon (The Way Way Back), Erinn Hayes (Childrens Hospital), Patrick Walker (The Resident), Carlos Valdes (The Flash) and Raphael Sbarge (Once Upon a Time) are set for heavily recurring roles opposite Julia Roberts and Sean Penn in Starz’s Watergate drama Gaslit. Also joining in recurring roles are Anne Dudek (House), Chris Conner (Altered Carbon), Brian Geraghty (The Hurt Locker), Nelson Franklin (Veep), Reed Diamond (Moneyball), Johnny Berchtold (The Wilds), Adam Ray (The Heat) and Billy Smith (Sully).
Based on the first season of the Slate podcast Slow Burn, Gaslit is a modern take on Watergate that focuses on the untold stories and forgotten characters of the scandal – from Nixon’s bumbling, opportunistic subordinates to the deranged zealots aiding and abetting their crimes to the tragic whistleblowers who would eventually bring the whole rotten enterprise crashing down.
The story will center on Martha Mitchell...
Based on the first season of the Slate podcast Slow Burn, Gaslit is a modern take on Watergate that focuses on the untold stories and forgotten characters of the scandal – from Nixon’s bumbling, opportunistic subordinates to the deranged zealots aiding and abetting their crimes to the tragic whistleblowers who would eventually bring the whole rotten enterprise crashing down.
The story will center on Martha Mitchell...
- 10/15/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
George Clooney is reopening the Watergate scandal at Netflix.
The Academy Award-winning actor will executive-produce the eight-part limited series Watergate, which is currently in development at the streaming service. Per our sister site Deadline, the Rashomon-style project hails from writer Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies). Should it be ordered to series, each episode would focus on a different individual involved in the 1970s scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon, including his counsel John Ehrlichman and former Attorney General John Mitchell.
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Watergate is one of two major TV projects for the onetime ER doc.
The Academy Award-winning actor will executive-produce the eight-part limited series Watergate, which is currently in development at the streaming service. Per our sister site Deadline, the Rashomon-style project hails from writer Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies). Should it be ordered to series, each episode would focus on a different individual involved in the 1970s scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon, including his counsel John Ehrlichman and former Attorney General John Mitchell.
RELATEDCable/Streaming Scorecard: What’s Renewed? What’s Cancelled?
Watergate is one of two major TV projects for the onetime ER doc.
- 12/16/2017
- TVLine.com
Stanley Kallis, an Emmy-winning producer who worked on the classic television dramas Hawaii 5-0, Mission: Impossible and Police Story, has died. He was 88.
Kallis died Jan. 28 at his home in Laguna Beach, Calif., his family announced.
Kallis culminated three straight years of Emmy nominations for outstanding drama series by winning in 1976 for his work on NBC's Police Story, the gritty anthology drama created by real-life Lapd cop Joseph Wambaugh.
He also received noms for producing the 1977 ABC miniseries Washington: Behind Closed Doors, based on a book by John Ehrlichman, and the 1980 telefilm Amber Waves, starring...
Kallis died Jan. 28 at his home in Laguna Beach, Calif., his family announced.
Kallis culminated three straight years of Emmy nominations for outstanding drama series by winning in 1976 for his work on NBC's Police Story, the gritty anthology drama created by real-life Lapd cop Joseph Wambaugh.
He also received noms for producing the 1977 ABC miniseries Washington: Behind Closed Doors, based on a book by John Ehrlichman, and the 1980 telefilm Amber Waves, starring...
- 2/10/2017
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Selma director’s fiercely radical Netflix documentary argues that America’s 13th constitutional amendment perpetuated a link between prison and slavery
Ava DuVernay, director of the Martin Luther King drama Selma, has made a fiercely radical documentary for Netflix in sympathy with the Black Lives Matter movement. Her film argues that America’s incarceration of black men is a phenomenon with its roots in slavery, and that the resemblances are not minor or ironic echoes but symptoms of the same structural cause. Ironically, it is about the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery and the state’s right to deprive a person of liberty but with the specific exception of “criminals”, thus forging a link in the judicial mindset between imprisonment and slavery. It is an attitude that persists into the Jim Crow era, the Nixon/Reagan wars on crime and drugs, the Clinton three-strikes rule … and beyond. The...
Ava DuVernay, director of the Martin Luther King drama Selma, has made a fiercely radical documentary for Netflix in sympathy with the Black Lives Matter movement. Her film argues that America’s incarceration of black men is a phenomenon with its roots in slavery, and that the resemblances are not minor or ironic echoes but symptoms of the same structural cause. Ironically, it is about the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery and the state’s right to deprive a person of liberty but with the specific exception of “criminals”, thus forging a link in the judicial mindset between imprisonment and slavery. It is an attitude that persists into the Jim Crow era, the Nixon/Reagan wars on crime and drugs, the Clinton three-strikes rule … and beyond. The...
- 10/6/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
There are four new documentaries that, while timed for Oscar votes, have a much bigger target audience: The American voters. These urgently topical films peel away decades of mythology, propaganda, and misinformation to reveal why so many people in this country are not only incarcerated in our thriving prison economy, but function inside prisons of misguided perception.
It’s easy to see why the New York Film Festival picked Ava DuVernay’s “13th” as its first-ever documentary opening-night film. In the year of Ferguson and Black Lives Matter, as fearful cops continue to gun down unarmed black men in the street, this must-see film will raise consciousness about how race affects the way we regard and behave toward the people around us. “13th” is a history of how white people have treated African-Americans since 1865 — when the 13th Amendment abolished slavery — and it roused the Lincoln Center crowd to multiple standing...
It’s easy to see why the New York Film Festival picked Ava DuVernay’s “13th” as its first-ever documentary opening-night film. In the year of Ferguson and Black Lives Matter, as fearful cops continue to gun down unarmed black men in the street, this must-see film will raise consciousness about how race affects the way we regard and behave toward the people around us. “13th” is a history of how white people have treated African-Americans since 1865 — when the 13th Amendment abolished slavery — and it roused the Lincoln Center crowd to multiple standing...
- 10/3/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
There are four new documentaries that, while timed for Oscar votes, have a much bigger target audience: The American voters. These urgently topical films peel away decades of mythology, propaganda, and misinformation to reveal why so many people in this country are not only incarcerated in our thriving prison economy, but function inside prisons of misguided perception.
It’s easy to see why the New York Film Festival picked Ava DuVernay’s “13th” as its first-ever documentary opening-night film. In the year of Ferguson and Black Lives Matter, as fearful cops continue to gun down unarmed black men in the street, this must-see film will raise consciousness about how race affects the way we regard and behave toward the people around us. “13th” is a history of how white people have treated African-Americans since 1865 — when the 13th Amendment abolished slavery — and it roused the Lincoln Center crowd to multiple standing...
It’s easy to see why the New York Film Festival picked Ava DuVernay’s “13th” as its first-ever documentary opening-night film. In the year of Ferguson and Black Lives Matter, as fearful cops continue to gun down unarmed black men in the street, this must-see film will raise consciousness about how race affects the way we regard and behave toward the people around us. “13th” is a history of how white people have treated African-Americans since 1865 — when the 13th Amendment abolished slavery — and it roused the Lincoln Center crowd to multiple standing...
- 10/3/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
★★★☆☆ Inside the Nixon White House, three of the former-us president's most senior aides were enthusiastic amateur filmmakers. Between them, they managed to amass over 500 reels of Super 8 footage detailing everything from state visits to staff garden parties. Having been seized by the FBI during the investigations into the Watergate scandal, those videos are now freely available and provide the primary source for Penny Lane's award-winning montage documentary, Our Nixon (2013). Playing this week at the Institute of Contemporary Art, the film presents an intimate portrait of the life of the "Tricky Dicky" administration.
When Richard Nixon was elected in 1969, he brought with him into the West Wing a trio of young, energised and devoted advisors from his Presidential campaign; H.R. Halderman, John Ehrlichman, and Dwight Chapin. These three filled the respective roles of White House Chief of Staff, Chief Domestic Advisor, and Special Assistant whilst also supplying a...
When Richard Nixon was elected in 1969, he brought with him into the West Wing a trio of young, energised and devoted advisors from his Presidential campaign; H.R. Halderman, John Ehrlichman, and Dwight Chapin. These three filled the respective roles of White House Chief of Staff, Chief Domestic Advisor, and Special Assistant whilst also supplying a...
- 9/18/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Songwriter Kirsty MacColl's "They Don't Know (About Us)" makes a fitting title track for "Our Nixon." The found-footage documentary, woven from 500 hours of Super 8 shot by Watergate convicts H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and Dwight Chapin, isn't just a portrait of the Nixon's peculiar boys club. It's a time capsule from a bygone age. And, really, who would have thought the president's chief of staff, domestic affairs advisor, and special assistant spent the early 1970s making home movies along with national policy, carrying cameras as well as clipboards? (Imagine Reggie Love and Rahm Emanuel uploading playful YouTube videos from the campaign trail.) Witnessed from our own era -- an era of armed drones, hacker collectives, and Prism, of staying "on message" and avoiding "gaffes" -- this unorthodox raw material, collected by the FBI in the course of the Watergate investigation, seems almost quaint in its earnestness. "I was just waiting,...
- 8/30/2013
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
New Release
Afternoon Delight
R, 1 Hr., 35 Mins.
Bored with her life, Rachel (Kathryn Hahn), an L.A. wife and mother, invites a hooker (Juno Temple) to crash in her home. The inevitable culture clash starts off as sitcom cutesy-poo, but it deepens, plausibly, into a look at everything “normal” parents feel like they’re repressing. As the sweetly amoral tattooed-goddess-for-hire, Temple does her wiliest acting yet. B —Owen Gleiberman
Cutie and the Boxer
R, 1 Hr., 22 Mins.
Zachary Heinzerling’s intimate documentary about the lives of two artists is one of the most tender films about marriage I’ve seen. A...
Afternoon Delight
R, 1 Hr., 35 Mins.
Bored with her life, Rachel (Kathryn Hahn), an L.A. wife and mother, invites a hooker (Juno Temple) to crash in her home. The inevitable culture clash starts off as sitcom cutesy-poo, but it deepens, plausibly, into a look at everything “normal” parents feel like they’re repressing. As the sweetly amoral tattooed-goddess-for-hire, Temple does her wiliest acting yet. B —Owen Gleiberman
Cutie and the Boxer
R, 1 Hr., 22 Mins.
Zachary Heinzerling’s intimate documentary about the lives of two artists is one of the most tender films about marriage I’ve seen. A...
- 8/28/2013
- by EW staff
- EW - Inside Movies
"Our Nixon," Penny Lane's acclaimed documentary that premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam in January and went on to play at SXSW and New Directors/New Films, opens in select theaters this Friday, August 30th. The film is comprised of archival interviews and rediscovered Super 8 home movie footage filmed by Nixon's closest aides between 1969 and 1973, including chief of staff H.R. Haldeman, domestic affairs adviser John Ehrlichman and special assistant Dwight Chapin. The film pairs its home movies with archival interviews in which Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Chapin reflect on the president, their time in the White House and Watergate. Below, watch an exclusive scene from the documentary, with a foreword by producer Brian L. Frye about the clip. ________________________________ In 2010, Bradley Manning leaked hundreds of thousands of classified military documents to Wikileaks. And in May 2013, Edward Snowden leaked classified Nsa documents exposing...
- 8/26/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
CNN's latest CNN Films documentary, "Our Nixon," will premiere on the channel Thursday at 9 p.m. The film, directed by Penny Lane, is made out of hundreds of hours of Super8 shot by three of Nixon's aides (special assistant Dwight Chapin, domestic affairs adviser John Ehrlichman and chief of staff H.R. Haldeman), newsreel footage and excerpts from Nixon's secret, swear-filled audiotapes to create a unique look at the 37th president. Also read: Hillary Clinton Movie Mania: Now CNN Films Is Doing a Documentary At least one person strongly objects to the portrayal, however.
- 8/1/2013
- by Sara Morrison
- The Wrap
With a multiplicity of controversies swirling around the current administration, the word "Nixonian" is being tossed out as an exemplar of the worst sort of White House corruption, much as tacking on the "-gate" suffix from Watergate has become the top way to identify any scandal.
But the Watergate scandal itself was a case of spying on political opponents. On the list of possible and actual presidential peccadilloes - including some other shady doings Richard Nixon's administration was involved in -- the actual Watergate break-in and the subsequent cover-up are relatively small potatoes.
But thanks to an informant nicknamed Deep Throat and the efforts of intrepid Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Watergate looms large in the public imagination. The names of those who wound up going to jail have become watchwords for malfeasance. In that, the fact that they were living, breathing human beings can get lost.
But the Watergate scandal itself was a case of spying on political opponents. On the list of possible and actual presidential peccadilloes - including some other shady doings Richard Nixon's administration was involved in -- the actual Watergate break-in and the subsequent cover-up are relatively small potatoes.
But thanks to an informant nicknamed Deep Throat and the efforts of intrepid Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Watergate looms large in the public imagination. The names of those who wound up going to jail have become watchwords for malfeasance. In that, the fact that they were living, breathing human beings can get lost.
- 8/1/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Culled from 500 reels of Super 8 film and news footage and masterfully edited into a story of hope and disillusionment, Penny Lane and Brian L. Frye's documentary "Our Nixon" is an uncommon look at Richard Nixon's presidency from the point of view of three of his closest advisors and conspirators -- Dwight Chapin, John Ehrlichman and H. R. Haldeman, all of whom served prison time because of Watergate and the resulting fallout. The film, which premieres on CNN tonight at 9pm before heading to a theatrical release from Cinedigm on August 30th, involves a certain amount of cinematic ventriloquism. Of the three, only Chapin is still alive, and either way the film is comprised entirely of archival material, from the Barbara Walters segment in which she asks Halderman about his signature hairstyle to the audio from the Nixon White House tapes. None of the men speak for themselves outside...
- 8/1/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
HBO and PBS are well known for their documentary programming, but new networks have been getting into the action with their own nonfiction plans, among them Showtime (who launched doc strand Sho Closeup with "The World According To Dick Cheney" in March) and CNN, who today announced its doc schedule for the remainder of the year, one that includes recent and provocative picks like Gabriela Cowperthwaite's killer whales in captivity film "Blackfish" and Robert Stone's nuclear power-centric "Pandora's Promise." The series will kick off with "Our Nixon," which airs tomorrow, actually ahead of its August 30th theatrical release from Cinedigm. Here's the list of films, descriptions courtesy of CNN: Our Nixon (Thursday, August 1 at 9:00pm) Throughout Richard Nixon’s presidency, three top White House aides earnestly documented their experiences with Super 8 cameras. This unique and personal visual record, created by H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman,...
- 7/31/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
"I never laughed as much as when I worked in the Nixon White House," says Dwight Chapin in the documentary Our Nixon, which premieres Thursday, Aug. 1 at 9/8c on CNN.
Not the kind of reminiscence you expect from one of the disgraced president's men, especially since Chapin did jail time for his role in the Watergate scandal. But Chapin, along with H.R. "Bob" Halderman, Richard Nixon's crew-cut wearing right hand man, and domestic affairs advisor John Ehrlichman, believed they were part of something special when they went to work in the White House in...
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Not the kind of reminiscence you expect from one of the disgraced president's men, especially since Chapin did jail time for his role in the Watergate scandal. But Chapin, along with H.R. "Bob" Halderman, Richard Nixon's crew-cut wearing right hand man, and domestic affairs advisor John Ehrlichman, believed they were part of something special when they went to work in the White House in...
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- 7/31/2013
- by Stephen Battaglio
- TVGuide - Breaking News
The forthcoming film "Our Nixon" promises to provide a unique look at Richard Nixon's presidency through hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage shot by his closest advisers.
Time got its hands on a new preview of the movie on Tuesday. Watch it above.
Filmed on Super 8 video cameras, the footage -- shot by aides H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Dwight Chapin, all of whom would eventually serve jail sentences for their role in the Watergate scandal -- had been seized by FBI officials, where it had remained in the bureau's custody for nearly 40 years.
Director and Co-Producer Penny Lane and her documentary team got their hands on hundreds of reels of the home movies and turned it into a film that has been hailed for providing unprecedented insight into the internal workings of Nixon's abbreviated presidency.
"Our Nixon" is set for limited release on Aug. 30 and will premiere on CNN on Aug.
Time got its hands on a new preview of the movie on Tuesday. Watch it above.
Filmed on Super 8 video cameras, the footage -- shot by aides H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Dwight Chapin, all of whom would eventually serve jail sentences for their role in the Watergate scandal -- had been seized by FBI officials, where it had remained in the bureau's custody for nearly 40 years.
Director and Co-Producer Penny Lane and her documentary team got their hands on hundreds of reels of the home movies and turned it into a film that has been hailed for providing unprecedented insight into the internal workings of Nixon's abbreviated presidency.
"Our Nixon" is set for limited release on Aug. 30 and will premiere on CNN on Aug.
- 7/16/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Title: Our Nixon Cinedigm/ CNN Films Director: Penny Lane Cast: Richard Nixon, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Dwight Chapin, Barbara Walters, George McGovern, Walter Cronkite, Henry Kissinger, Pat Nixon, Tricia Nixon, Chou En-lai, Mao Tse-tung Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 6/27/13 Opens: August 30, 2013 Even if you don’t know much about history, you may remember some U.S. presidents by their famous quotes. Lincoln: “Fourscore and seven years ago…” Roosevelt: “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Clinton: “I did not have sex with that woman.” Bush 41: “Read my lips. No new taxes.” Bush 43: “Mission accomplished.” But one quote blows the others away; the awesome statement by Nixon [ Read More ]
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- 6/29/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
A new documentary compiles home-movie footage from the heart of Richard Nixon's administration. But it's less a portrait of Tricky Dicky than a disarmingly personable insight into all the president's men
An administration under fire over covert wiretapping, whistleblowers hailed as heroes and lambasted as traitors, a president's reputation on the line … You could be excused for detecting a whiff of Nixon-era sulphur in the Us political atmosphere these days. With the trial of Bradley Manning, the Department of Justice's pursuit of journalists who use national-security sources and, of course, Edward Snowden's revelations of Nsa data harvesting filling the headlines, state-sanctioned subterfuge and divisive whistleblowing dominate Us politics more than at any time since the days of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate.
It's an opportune moment, therefore, to re-examine the surveillance culture of the Nixon administration. A timely new documentary allows us to do so from a unique perspective:...
An administration under fire over covert wiretapping, whistleblowers hailed as heroes and lambasted as traitors, a president's reputation on the line … You could be excused for detecting a whiff of Nixon-era sulphur in the Us political atmosphere these days. With the trial of Bradley Manning, the Department of Justice's pursuit of journalists who use national-security sources and, of course, Edward Snowden's revelations of Nsa data harvesting filling the headlines, state-sanctioned subterfuge and divisive whistleblowing dominate Us politics more than at any time since the days of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate.
It's an opportune moment, therefore, to re-examine the surveillance culture of the Nixon administration. A timely new documentary allows us to do so from a unique perspective:...
- 6/13/2013
- by Ben Walters
- The Guardian - Film News
It's time for the Los Angeles Film Festival!
Filmforum is the community sponsor for two films at the festival: The Island of St. Mathews by Kevin Jerome Everson, and The Act of Killing, by Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn. Details below:
La Film Festival
June 13-23rd
Mostly at L.A. Live, downtown
http://www.lafilmfest.com/
Now in its nineteenth year, the Los Angeles Film Festival is widely recognized as a world-class cinematic event, showcasing the best in new American and international cinema and providing the movie-loving public with access to some of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers, film industry professionals and emerging new talent by bringing them together in the heart of the entertainment capital of the world.
The Festival features unique signature programs including the Filmmaker Retreat, several Outdoor Screenings, intimate Coffee Talks and more. Additionally, the Festival screens short films created by high school students and has a special section devoted to music videos. Passes and Tickets are on sale Now! lafilmfest.com
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The Island of St. Matthews
preceded by Walker
Documentary Competition
(USA, 2013, 70 mins)
North American premiere
Directed By: Kevin Jerome Everson
Producer: Madeleine Molyneaux
Cinematographers: Lindsey 'Lnz' Arturo, Kevin Jerome Everson, Taka Suzuki
Trailer
With a filmmaking style that draws upon fiction, documentary and experimental traditions, filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson deftly explores aspects of the African American experience in critically acclaimed work that is as likely to be seen in an art museum as at a film festival.
For his most recent feature (he has also directed over 70 short films), Everson turns to the community of Westport, Miss., where the nearly annual flooding of the Tombigbee River has touched everyone, including Everson's own family. In 1973, the raging waters threatened to wash away the entire town, along with countless family heirlooms and photo albums. Today, those waters can still trouble, but they also unite the community, bound together by flood barriers and baptisms.
Screening:
Sun, Jun 16th 4:00pm, Regal Cinemas 14
Mon, Jun 17th 7:20pm, Regal Cinemas 13
---The Act of Killing
International Showcase
(Denmark, 2012, 125 mins, Dcp)
In Indonesian with English subtitles
Directed By: Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn
Executive Producers: Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, André Singer, Torstein Grude, Bjarte Mørner Tveit, Joram ten Brink
By turns chilling, surreal and philosophical, this debate-worthy documentary revisits modern Indonesia's brutal origins by inviting those who mass-slaughtered ethnic Chinese, alleged Communists and intellectuals in the 60's to re-enact their long-ago killings in elaborate tableaux evoking classic movie genres. At the center of directors Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn's bold experiment in hellish nostalgia are gangster/paramilitary leader Anwar Congo and his followers, proud nationalists with cinema-inspired visions of themselves, who are nonetheless seen as heroes in their country today. But as set-designed, costumed pretend violence for the cameras sparks further recollections of death squad protocol, the weight of remembered atrocities takes its toll, particularly on dream-haunted Anwar.
Early screenings of this disturbing, one-of-a-kind meditation on history, sanctioned evil and self-mythologizing, so galvanized Werner Herzog and Errol Morris that they became executive producers.
Screening:
Fri, Jun 14th 10:00pm, Regal Cinemas 13
Sun, Jun 16th 7:00pm, Directv Theatre/Regal 9
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Also recommended:
Our Nixon (USA, 2013, 85 mins, HDCam)
Directed By: Penny Lane
Assembled from over 500 reels of Super 8 film shot during the Nixon White House by top aides (and Watergate participants) H.R Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Dwight Chapin, Penny Lane's documentary provides a unique insider's view of the most infamous presidency in American history.
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2013/filmguide/Title/Oo
Screening:
Sat, Jun 15th 1:40pm, Regal Cinemas 8
Sun, Jun 16th 9:30pm, Regal Cinemas 13
Shorts Program 3
This group of films takes us into dreamlike and hyper-real worlds in which fear and sadness are offset by the warmth of extraordinary human connections. Including films by Shaz Bennett, Jean-Guillaume Bastien, Ethan Clarke, Kevin Jerome Everson, and more.
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2013/filmguide/Title/SS
Shorts Program 4
Explorations about the complex challenges of childhood and playful young-adulthood are juxtaposed with stories of tradition and old age--with a monkey movie for good measure! Including films by Rachel Mayeri, Frances Bodomo, Ian Samuels, Tony Donoghue, and more.
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2013/filmguide/Title/SS
Purgatorio
With striking imagery, director Rodrigo Reyes re-imagines the Mexico/U.S. border as a mythical place comparable to Dante's purgatory. Leaving politics aside, he takes a fresh look at the brutal beauty of the border and the people caught in its spell.
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2013/filmguide/Title/Pp
Screening:
Sat, Jun 15th 1:30pm, Regal Cinemas 12, Door Only
Thu, Jun 20th 7:00pm, Regal Cinemas 12
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Filmforum is the community sponsor for two films at the festival: The Island of St. Mathews by Kevin Jerome Everson, and The Act of Killing, by Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn. Details below:
La Film Festival
June 13-23rd
Mostly at L.A. Live, downtown
http://www.lafilmfest.com/
Now in its nineteenth year, the Los Angeles Film Festival is widely recognized as a world-class cinematic event, showcasing the best in new American and international cinema and providing the movie-loving public with access to some of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers, film industry professionals and emerging new talent by bringing them together in the heart of the entertainment capital of the world.
The Festival features unique signature programs including the Filmmaker Retreat, several Outdoor Screenings, intimate Coffee Talks and more. Additionally, the Festival screens short films created by high school students and has a special section devoted to music videos. Passes and Tickets are on sale Now! lafilmfest.com
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The Island of St. Matthews
preceded by Walker
Documentary Competition
(USA, 2013, 70 mins)
North American premiere
Directed By: Kevin Jerome Everson
Producer: Madeleine Molyneaux
Cinematographers: Lindsey 'Lnz' Arturo, Kevin Jerome Everson, Taka Suzuki
Trailer
With a filmmaking style that draws upon fiction, documentary and experimental traditions, filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson deftly explores aspects of the African American experience in critically acclaimed work that is as likely to be seen in an art museum as at a film festival.
For his most recent feature (he has also directed over 70 short films), Everson turns to the community of Westport, Miss., where the nearly annual flooding of the Tombigbee River has touched everyone, including Everson's own family. In 1973, the raging waters threatened to wash away the entire town, along with countless family heirlooms and photo albums. Today, those waters can still trouble, but they also unite the community, bound together by flood barriers and baptisms.
Screening:
Sun, Jun 16th 4:00pm, Regal Cinemas 14
Mon, Jun 17th 7:20pm, Regal Cinemas 13
---The Act of Killing
International Showcase
(Denmark, 2012, 125 mins, Dcp)
In Indonesian with English subtitles
Directed By: Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn
Executive Producers: Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, André Singer, Torstein Grude, Bjarte Mørner Tveit, Joram ten Brink
By turns chilling, surreal and philosophical, this debate-worthy documentary revisits modern Indonesia's brutal origins by inviting those who mass-slaughtered ethnic Chinese, alleged Communists and intellectuals in the 60's to re-enact their long-ago killings in elaborate tableaux evoking classic movie genres. At the center of directors Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn's bold experiment in hellish nostalgia are gangster/paramilitary leader Anwar Congo and his followers, proud nationalists with cinema-inspired visions of themselves, who are nonetheless seen as heroes in their country today. But as set-designed, costumed pretend violence for the cameras sparks further recollections of death squad protocol, the weight of remembered atrocities takes its toll, particularly on dream-haunted Anwar.
Early screenings of this disturbing, one-of-a-kind meditation on history, sanctioned evil and self-mythologizing, so galvanized Werner Herzog and Errol Morris that they became executive producers.
Screening:
Fri, Jun 14th 10:00pm, Regal Cinemas 13
Sun, Jun 16th 7:00pm, Directv Theatre/Regal 9
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Also recommended:
Our Nixon (USA, 2013, 85 mins, HDCam)
Directed By: Penny Lane
Assembled from over 500 reels of Super 8 film shot during the Nixon White House by top aides (and Watergate participants) H.R Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Dwight Chapin, Penny Lane's documentary provides a unique insider's view of the most infamous presidency in American history.
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2013/filmguide/Title/Oo
Screening:
Sat, Jun 15th 1:40pm, Regal Cinemas 8
Sun, Jun 16th 9:30pm, Regal Cinemas 13
Shorts Program 3
This group of films takes us into dreamlike and hyper-real worlds in which fear and sadness are offset by the warmth of extraordinary human connections. Including films by Shaz Bennett, Jean-Guillaume Bastien, Ethan Clarke, Kevin Jerome Everson, and more.
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2013/filmguide/Title/SS
Shorts Program 4
Explorations about the complex challenges of childhood and playful young-adulthood are juxtaposed with stories of tradition and old age--with a monkey movie for good measure! Including films by Rachel Mayeri, Frances Bodomo, Ian Samuels, Tony Donoghue, and more.
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2013/filmguide/Title/SS
Purgatorio
With striking imagery, director Rodrigo Reyes re-imagines the Mexico/U.S. border as a mythical place comparable to Dante's purgatory. Leaving politics aside, he takes a fresh look at the brutal beauty of the border and the people caught in its spell.
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2013/filmguide/Title/Pp
Screening:
Sat, Jun 15th 1:30pm, Regal Cinemas 12, Door Only
Thu, Jun 20th 7:00pm, Regal Cinemas 12
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- 6/13/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Outdoor Cinema at Socrates Sculpture Park returns to Long Island City for a 16th consecutive summer on July 3 with a sneak peak preview of Cinedigm's "Our Nixon" This is the first year that Rooftop Films has paired up with Film Forum to co-curate the series, with the generous support of presenting sponsor At&T. "Rooftop Films is thrilled to be partnering once again with Socrates Sculpture Park and to be working with Film Forum for the first time," said Dan Nuxoll, Program Director for Rooftop Films. The series opens during Independence Day week with Director Penny Lane's acclaimed documentary "Our Nixon." The film features home movies created by H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Dwight Chapin and offers a never before seen inside peak into the Nixon White House. Lane will be in attendance on July 3 to introduce the film and for a Q and A after the screening.
- 6/7/2013
- by Casey Cipriani
- Indiewire
In a joint pick-up that will guarantee the film a theatrical release and television broadcast, CNN Films and Cinedigm have acquired "Our Nixon," Penny Lane's documentary comprised of archival interviews and rediscovered Super 8 home movie footage filmed by Nixon's closest aides between 1969 and 1973, including chief of staff H.R. Haldeman, domestic affairs adviser John Ehrlichman and special assistant Dwight Chapin. Cinedigm will handle the theatrical release, which doesn't yet have a date set, while CNN plans to broadcast the film in August of 2013. Read More: Penny Lane Takes a Personal Look at Nixon and His Conspirators in 'Our Nixon' Lane, who directed the film and co-produced it with Brian Frye, said in the release that "The personal footage reveals a multidimensional president and staff who were heartbreakingly earnest, idealistic, and naïve -- as well as self-protective, suspicious, and cynical. Our goal was to invite viewers to...
- 4/24/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
CNN Films and Cinedigm have picked up Our Nixon for TV broadcast and theatrical release this summer. The film of Super 8 home movie footage of Richard Nixon and his administration is set to debut on CNN in August and will be released theatrically by Cinedigm the same month. Directed by Penny Lane, the film consists of footage shot by the 37th President’s top aides H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and Dwight Chapin from 1969-1973. Our Nixon had its North American premiere at this year’s SXSW. The film is co-produced by Lane and Brian Frye. The CNN Films acquisition was negotiated with Josh Braun of Submarine and for theatrical distribution between Submarine and Cinedigm’s Emily Rothschild. Production and acquisition unit CNN Films was formed in October of last year and made its debut as a buyer at this year’s Sundance.
- 4/24/2013
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
CNN has picked up director Penny Lane’s Our Nixon, which is culled from hundreds or hours of intimate home videos shot by the 37th president’s closest aides. The cable network plans to premiere the film in August, while Cinedigm will release it theatrically. The feature-length documentary, which recently screened at the New Directors/New Films festival in New York, is made up of more than 500 reels shot between 1969 and 1973 by President Richard Nixon’s chief of staff H.R. Haldeman, domestic affairs adviser John Ehrlichman and special assistant Dwight Chapin. The tapes encompass the violent protests during the Vietnam
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- 4/24/2013
- by Marisa Guthrie
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
While it’s widely known that Richard Nixon was an obsessive self-documenter, what is less well known is that three of his top aides – H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Dwight Chapin – were as well. Mad for Super 8, the three men obsessively documented their everyday lives as they toiled away, unaware that their idealistic zeal for a corrupt administration would land them in prison. Directed by Penny Lane and co-produced by Brian Frye, Our Nixon is an all archive documentary that uses this footage to create a complex portrait of one of the most notorious administrations in the …...
- 3/8/2013
- by Mary Anderson Casavant
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Now that The Avengers is in theaters and moviegoers are discovering the secret new scene the cast shot just three weeks ago, it’s time for EW to tell you what we know.
While EW confirmed that, yes, a new scene was being created, we didn’t share everything we knew because, well, … who wants to hear the punchline to a joke before the setup? Now that the movie has opened, and people are discovering the scene for themselves, we can exclusively reveal its backstory.
Read on, but only if you’ve already sat through The Avengers until the end...
While EW confirmed that, yes, a new scene was being created, we didn’t share everything we knew because, well, … who wants to hear the punchline to a joke before the setup? Now that the movie has opened, and people are discovering the scene for themselves, we can exclusively reveal its backstory.
Read on, but only if you’ve already sat through The Avengers until the end...
- 5/4/2012
- by Anthony Breznican
- EW - Inside Movies
#45. Our Nixon - Penny Lane and Brian Frye I'm curious to see what they've found and I'm more curious in seeing how married filmmaking couple journo Brian L. Frye and art prof Penny Lane pieced together a treasure trove of Super 8 home movies filmed by Nixon's closest aides (view trailer). Currently in post, the Cinereach supported, Kickstarter helped Our Nixon appears to be a paean to a small snippet of an era (1969-1972) that could play in anything from the Frontier section to the Spotlight Docs section to the fest U.S Doc Comp. If it does get included I want dibs on the Tricky Dick electoral pins. Gist: Everyone knows that during the Watergate investigation, the FBI confiscated more than 3700 hours of Nixon's secret tape recordings. But the FBI also confiscated 204 reels of Super-8 film. The confiscated films were home movies made by Chief of Staff H.R.
- 11/11/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Day One of Film Week is complete! Wow, did we ever get better at talking about Our Nixon today. Ten back-to-back 30-minute meetings with brilliant people who are really interested in your film will do have that effect.
Did Our Nixon make a true love connection? Who knows, but sparks were definitely flying. And it’s all about getting to the second date.
We came into this week with a lot of meeting requests, and although I was fairly flabbergasted by the interest we elicited, I really shouldn’t have been. Because Our Nixon has a really fantastic premise: it’s a feature doc composed of never-before-seen Super 8 home movies filmed by three of President Richard Nixon’s closest White House aides. The home movies offer an astonishingly intimate glimpse into the Nixon presidency through the point of view of some of his staffers. Our Nixon treats the three home movie makers (H.
Did Our Nixon make a true love connection? Who knows, but sparks were definitely flying. And it’s all about getting to the second date.
We came into this week with a lot of meeting requests, and although I was fairly flabbergasted by the interest we elicited, I really shouldn’t have been. Because Our Nixon has a really fantastic premise: it’s a feature doc composed of never-before-seen Super 8 home movies filmed by three of President Richard Nixon’s closest White House aides. The home movies offer an astonishingly intimate glimpse into the Nixon presidency through the point of view of some of his staffers. Our Nixon treats the three home movie makers (H.
- 9/22/2011
- by Penny Lane
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Feb. 5
7:00 p.m.
Microscope Gallery
4 Charles Place
Brooklyn, NY 11221
Hosted by: Microscope Gallery
Brian Frye and Penny Lane are two recently married experimental filmmakers and this screening, entitled “From Here to Eternity: Occasional Histories,” features selections that they’ve made separately and together.
Most excitingly, the pair will present a 15-minute excerpt from their current work-in-progress, the feature-length documentary Our Nixon. The film features actual Super-8 footage filmed by President Nixon’s closest aides, a who’s who of those involved in the Watergate scandal: Chief of Staff H.R. “Bob” Haldeman, Chief Domestic Advisor John Ehrlichman, Special Assistant to the President Dwight Chapin, and Deputy Assistant Larry Higby.
Our Nixon is the first opportunity for the general public to see this long forgotten footage. You can watch clips of some of it in the trailer below. After the Nixon White House made these “home movies,” all the...
7:00 p.m.
Microscope Gallery
4 Charles Place
Brooklyn, NY 11221
Hosted by: Microscope Gallery
Brian Frye and Penny Lane are two recently married experimental filmmakers and this screening, entitled “From Here to Eternity: Occasional Histories,” features selections that they’ve made separately and together.
Most excitingly, the pair will present a 15-minute excerpt from their current work-in-progress, the feature-length documentary Our Nixon. The film features actual Super-8 footage filmed by President Nixon’s closest aides, a who’s who of those involved in the Watergate scandal: Chief of Staff H.R. “Bob” Haldeman, Chief Domestic Advisor John Ehrlichman, Special Assistant to the President Dwight Chapin, and Deputy Assistant Larry Higby.
Our Nixon is the first opportunity for the general public to see this long forgotten footage. You can watch clips of some of it in the trailer below. After the Nixon White House made these “home movies,” all the...
- 2/3/2011
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
(Indie film producer, producer's rep, and Big Lebowski inspiration Jeff Dowd, above.)
Ten Years After Lebowski, The Real Dude Still Abides
by Jon Zelazny
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on EightMillionStories.com on September 26, 2008.
September 9th saw the release of a new 10th Anniversary Special Edition DVD of the Coen brothers’ cult favorite The Big Lebowski, their “Raymond Chandler on acid” saga of two middle-aged L.A. slackers (Jeff Bridges & John Goodman) who get caught up in a Byzantine kidnapping plot.
It used to be a little show biz secret that Jeff Bridges’ amiable character, Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski, was based on the Coens’ real-life friend and colleague, indie film producer and producer’s rep Jeff Dowd, but that began to change in 2002 when four Lebowski fanatics in Louisville, Kentucky promoted the first annual Lebowski Fest, an event so successful, they’re now staging three a year in various cities.
Ten Years After Lebowski, The Real Dude Still Abides
by Jon Zelazny
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on EightMillionStories.com on September 26, 2008.
September 9th saw the release of a new 10th Anniversary Special Edition DVD of the Coen brothers’ cult favorite The Big Lebowski, their “Raymond Chandler on acid” saga of two middle-aged L.A. slackers (Jeff Bridges & John Goodman) who get caught up in a Byzantine kidnapping plot.
It used to be a little show biz secret that Jeff Bridges’ amiable character, Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski, was based on the Coens’ real-life friend and colleague, indie film producer and producer’s rep Jeff Dowd, but that began to change in 2002 when four Lebowski fanatics in Louisville, Kentucky promoted the first annual Lebowski Fest, an event so successful, they’re now staging three a year in various cities.
- 4/17/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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