Conspiracy buffs rejoice. Netflix has got you covered. Photojournalist Christian Hansen and director Zachary Treitz’s American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders is a paranoia mother lode. Investigative reporter Danny Casolaro probed irregularities in government dealings with criminal surveillance software designer Inslaw. His 1991 death, in a Virginia hotel room with multiple slash wounds to the wrist, including some which improbably tore tendons, was ruled a suicide.
The story Casolaro was chasing involved a cabal of important people tied in with branches of the Justice Department. The claims behind the four-part documentary series reach beyond the initial crime. The chase runs into almost every suspicion held against government agencies, and the shadow power they hold, by journalists and the public at large. Included inside American Conspiracy is the Holy Grail of every scholar of the John F. Kennedy assassination.
The Legend of the “Real Zapruder Film”
“Oh, the Zapruder film,” Cheri Seymour,...
The story Casolaro was chasing involved a cabal of important people tied in with branches of the Justice Department. The claims behind the four-part documentary series reach beyond the initial crime. The chase runs into almost every suspicion held against government agencies, and the shadow power they hold, by journalists and the public at large. Included inside American Conspiracy is the Holy Grail of every scholar of the John F. Kennedy assassination.
The Legend of the “Real Zapruder Film”
“Oh, the Zapruder film,” Cheri Seymour,...
- 3/4/2024
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
A well-told story ends when the credits roll, but not so documentaries. There, in most cases, the lives of the people depicted on-screen continue on, transformed by the fact of being filmed — and even more by whatever attention the project ignites in the culture at large. That’s why, in the hundreds of post-screening Q&As I’ve seen for docs over the years, the same questions come up virtually without fail: What’s happened since? How are the movie’s subjects doing now?
In “Subject,” co-directors Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall catch up with the people at the center of several major documentaries — from “Hoop Dreams” and “The Wolfpack” to “Capturing the Friedmans” and “The Staircase” — to see how their involvement in such projects changed their lives. That may be the hook that lures in audiences, though the film is far more than just a years-later epilogue to those high-profile docs.
In “Subject,” co-directors Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall catch up with the people at the center of several major documentaries — from “Hoop Dreams” and “The Wolfpack” to “Capturing the Friedmans” and “The Staircase” — to see how their involvement in such projects changed their lives. That may be the hook that lures in audiences, though the film is far more than just a years-later epilogue to those high-profile docs.
- 11/6/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
When Bob Dylan broke out the Grateful Dead’s ‘Truckin’ earlier this week at the Tokyo Garden Theater in Japan, it seemed like a one-off fluke. But then he followed it up at the next show by attempting their song “Brokedown Palace,” though he gave up midway through when he seemingly forgot the words. And then on Saturday, he trotted out another Dead staple, “Not Fade Away.”
“Not Fade Away” was written by Buddy Holly, but the Grateful Dead played it 566 times between 1969 and 1995. Dylan first covered the song in...
“Not Fade Away” was written by Buddy Holly, but the Grateful Dead played it 566 times between 1969 and 1995. Dylan first covered the song in...
- 4/16/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Earlier this week, Bob Dylan announced his first live performance since 2019, but it’s not a continuation of the Never Ending Tour like everyone expected. He’s instead doing a livestream concert on July 18th via the website Veeps, which was founded by Benji and Joel Madden of Good Charlotte. They’re calling the event Shadow Kingdom.
“Shadow Kingdom will showcase Bob Dylan in an intimate setting as he performs songs from his extensive body of work,” reads a press release, “created especially for this event.”
This news invites many...
“Shadow Kingdom will showcase Bob Dylan in an intimate setting as he performs songs from his extensive body of work,” reads a press release, “created especially for this event.”
This news invites many...
- 6/17/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment that Pink Floyd peaked as a live act, but most fans would point to the group’s 1975 Wish You Were Here tour and their 1977 In the Flesh tour. These were wildly ambitious, boundary-pushing stadium shows where they flew airplanes directly over the audience, propelled inflatable pigs through the air and played their albums straight through. The Wish You Were Here tour actually finished before the album came out, so they played Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety every night. (Believe it or not,...
- 12/6/2018
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Just shy of three years since Liev Schreiber made his first Saturday Night Live appearance, the Ray Donovan star returns to 30 Rock this weekend to host for the first time. And, needless to say, we’ve got some ideas about the sketches that we expect/hope to see in the episode. Also needless to say, all five of those ideas are included in our possibly-prescient precap…
Farewell to the Possum: On Wednesday, TVLine flashed back to some of Kate McKinnon’s best bits as now-former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and we wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if SNL followed suit,...
Farewell to the Possum: On Wednesday, TVLine flashed back to some of Kate McKinnon’s best bits as now-former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and we wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if SNL followed suit,...
- 11/10/2018
- TVLine.com
Abraham Zapruder recorded a tragic moment in history when he captured President John F. Kennedy‘s assassination in full color on Nov. 22, 1963.
Fifty-three years later, granddaughter Alexandra Zapruder adds a fresh narrative to an old tragedy with the release of Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film. The book, out last month, delves into the story of her grandfather, who was traumatized after making a home movie that serves as the only complete record of Kennedy’s death. Twenty-Six Seconds also fleshes out the complex situation in which the Zapruder family found itself after the assassination.
“We’re...
Fifty-three years later, granddaughter Alexandra Zapruder adds a fresh narrative to an old tragedy with the release of Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film. The book, out last month, delves into the story of her grandfather, who was traumatized after making a home movie that serves as the only complete record of Kennedy’s death. Twenty-Six Seconds also fleshes out the complex situation in which the Zapruder family found itself after the assassination.
“We’re...
- 12/7/2016
- by samgillettetimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
In this post-internet world, the sensationalist documentary genre feels less shocking and more level-headed
Widely despised in their day and little remembered now, “mondo” films have a peculiar legacy. Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, these so-called documentaries collected together shocking documents of sex, death and violence from around the world. Today they can seem almost quaint, but at a time when even Abraham Zapruder’s infamous home video of JFK’s assassination was little seen, they engendered plenty of intrigue – and outrage.
The British Board Of Film Censors took a dim view of the genre, initially banning and later censoring its first entry, 1962’s Mondo Cane. The notorious 1978 compilation Faces Of Death (warning, contains grim footage), meanwhile, wound up on the British government’s infamous list of prohibited “video nasties”. Even the genre’s most (grudgingly) critically respected work, 1982’s The Killing Of America, wasn’t submitted...
Widely despised in their day and little remembered now, “mondo” films have a peculiar legacy. Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, these so-called documentaries collected together shocking documents of sex, death and violence from around the world. Today they can seem almost quaint, but at a time when even Abraham Zapruder’s infamous home video of JFK’s assassination was little seen, they engendered plenty of intrigue – and outrage.
The British Board Of Film Censors took a dim view of the genre, initially banning and later censoring its first entry, 1962’s Mondo Cane. The notorious 1978 compilation Faces Of Death (warning, contains grim footage), meanwhile, wound up on the British government’s infamous list of prohibited “video nasties”. Even the genre’s most (grudgingly) critically respected work, 1982’s The Killing Of America, wasn’t submitted...
- 11/5/2016
- by Charlie Lyne
- The Guardian - Film News
Check out Parkland - the dramatisation of the Kennedy assassination - half-price in Sky Store. The chaotic aftermath of the Dallas killing is recounted in this impressive ensemble drama. Events unfold from the perspectives of the people most immediately affected by the shooting; the staff at Parkland Hospital who treated the stricken president, the secret servicemen responsible for his safety, the brother of his suspected killer Lee Harvey Oswald, and Abraham Zapruder, the spectator who captured the fatal moment in the most famous home movie in history.
- 7/14/2014
- Sky Movies
Home videos are a crucial journalistic asset. Amateur videographers like Abraham Zapruder have managed to capture some of the most significant events in history, and Amnesty International wants to ensure that citizen journalism maintains its power. It has launched a new tool center centered around the largest archive of amateur news videos: YouTube. The human rights non-profit has launched the Citizen Evidence Lab, a website that helps journalists and human rights activists verify YouTube videos. The Citizen Evidence Lab includes several guides and checklists that assists users as they figure out the who, what, when, where, and why of their target videos. An introductory exercise allows users to practice on an example video before they dive in with their own choices. As Amnesty International explains in its introductory video, user-generated YouTube videos have the potential to unlock new information in important areas such as Syria, and the Citizen Evidence Lab...
- 7/9/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Despite excellent cinematography and some first-class performances, this JFK assassination drama remains an also-ran
What else is there to say about the assassination of JFK? With every aspect of the case explored in both documentary (Killing Oswald also opens this week) and drama, it's hard to find an angle that hasn't been covered.
This solid but unremarkable adaptation of Vincent Bugliosi's painstaking book Four Days in November focuses on the lives of incidental characters (Zac Efron's exhausted young surgeon, Paul Giamatti's rattled Abraham Zapruder) who find themselves accidentally caught up in the whirlwind.
Barry Ackroyd's cinematography lends a typically authentic air to the proceedings and Jacki Weaver is extraordinary as Oswald's unhinged mother, Marguerite, but Parkland remains a bystander in the already overcrowded field of films about the events of November 1963.
Rating: 3/5
DramaBilly Bob ThorntonPaul GiamattiJohn F KennedyMark Kermode
theguardian.com © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies.
What else is there to say about the assassination of JFK? With every aspect of the case explored in both documentary (Killing Oswald also opens this week) and drama, it's hard to find an angle that hasn't been covered.
This solid but unremarkable adaptation of Vincent Bugliosi's painstaking book Four Days in November focuses on the lives of incidental characters (Zac Efron's exhausted young surgeon, Paul Giamatti's rattled Abraham Zapruder) who find themselves accidentally caught up in the whirlwind.
Barry Ackroyd's cinematography lends a typically authentic air to the proceedings and Jacki Weaver is extraordinary as Oswald's unhinged mother, Marguerite, but Parkland remains a bystander in the already overcrowded field of films about the events of November 1963.
Rating: 3/5
DramaBilly Bob ThorntonPaul GiamattiJohn F KennedyMark Kermode
theguardian.com © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies.
- 11/24/2013
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on a Friday afternoon in November 1963 was the Baby Boomers’ 9/11. On this day, 50 years ago, Abraham Zapruder’s 8mm Kodachrome camera caught the event on film. 50 years later, two major government investigations, a staggering 40,000 books, several films and Lord knows how many articles, haven’t fully clarified what happened in Dallas that day. The murder remains wildly controversial, and the conspiracy theories that have sprung up around range from the ‘magic bullet’ theory, the grassy knoll, a long list of culprits, the CIA, the Mafia, the Kgb, the Little Green Men and The Illuminati – but what about the other people who were taking pictures and filming that day? That’s the question that Errol Morris focuses on in this 14 minute documentary about the president’s shooting. The director sits down with Josiah “Tink” Thompson, the author of the book Six Seconds in Dallas,...
- 11/23/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
It used to be said that every American could remember where he or she was when they heard the news that John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. Today, it’s official that no one under 50 can, or ever will, remember that moment. But I bet a great many people who are too young to have experienced the cataclysm of JFK’s murder can remember where they were the first time they saw the Zapruder film. Because for anyone too young to remember the assassination, that 26-second, 486-frame little home movie — the film that has been viewed more than any other...
- 11/22/2013
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW.com - PopWatch
Abraham Zapruder's footage of President John F. Kennedy's assassination may be the most famous home movie in American history. It's also the most chilling. In this video, journalist Richard Stolley recounts how he tracked down Zapruder, an amateur film-buff, and purchased the 26-second clip for Life magazine."He expressed embarrassment the day we were negotiating that it was him, this middle aged garment manufacturer who got the only filmed evidence of the assassination, and not one of those world-famous photographers back there on the press bus,” Stolley recalls of Zapruder, who used an eight-millimeter camera. “He never quite got over that.
- 11/22/2013
- by Erin Clements
- PEOPLE.com
On this day, 50 years ago, multiple shots suddenly rang out after President John F. Kennedy's motorcade turned the corner and came into Dealey Plaza. Abraham Zapruder's 8mm Kodachrome camera caught the horrifying moment on film, with the President's head snapping back and to the left, and that 26.6 seconds of footage becoming forever scrutinized and debated in the years to come. The event has also served as inspiration for countless movies about the JFK Assissination, 8 of which we investigate here. But what about the other evidence on the ground? What about the other people who were taking pictures and filming that day? That's the question that Errol Morris' probing, fascinating short documentary "November 22, 1963" gets into. The director sits down with Josiah “Tink” Thompson, Yale graduate and author of "Six Seconds In Dallas," which posits that three gunman were responsible in the death for JFK. Thompson, now a private investigator,...
- 11/22/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Director: Peter Landesman; Screenwriter: Peter Landesman; Starring: Zac Efron, Paul Giamatti, Tom Welling, Billy Bob Thornton, James Badge Dale, Marcia Gay Harden; Running time: 94 mins; Certificate: 15
50 years have passed since the assassination of President Kennedy, during which time all manner of conspiracy theories have emerged and been repeatedly raked over. This indie drama featuring Zac Efron takes a very different angle by examining the direct aftermath rather than trying to piece together the events leading up to it, but it's done with no clear sense of direction.
The natural climax of the JFK story is, here, the opener. Paul Giamatti is Abraham Zapruder, the man who filmed the now infamous footage of the President being gunned down in Dallas. His shock is palpable and so, too, is the highly charged atmosphere at Parkland hospital where the action swiftly moves. Efron is the young doctor, Charles 'Jim' Carrico, who is first...
50 years have passed since the assassination of President Kennedy, during which time all manner of conspiracy theories have emerged and been repeatedly raked over. This indie drama featuring Zac Efron takes a very different angle by examining the direct aftermath rather than trying to piece together the events leading up to it, but it's done with no clear sense of direction.
The natural climax of the JFK story is, here, the opener. Paul Giamatti is Abraham Zapruder, the man who filmed the now infamous footage of the President being gunned down in Dallas. His shock is palpable and so, too, is the highly charged atmosphere at Parkland hospital where the action swiftly moves. Efron is the young doctor, Charles 'Jim' Carrico, who is first...
- 11/22/2013
- Digital Spy
Chicago – Tomorrow, November 22nd, 2013, is the 50th Anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Beyond the numerous TV programs and tributes expected for the memory, which films have lent the best perspective over the years regarding that Day in Dallas? The following offers five films for consideration.
Films and the cinema also figured in the capture of Lee Harvey Oswald. The alleged assassin ducked into Texas Theater in Dallas as he was on the run from the murder scene, and was apprehended inside the theater. A war film double feature was playing there – “Cry of Battle” (1963) and “War is Hell” (1963). It was the second film that was interrupted when police descended on Oswald.
The following five films – available for digital download, Blu-ray and DVD – provides different observations and objectives regarding November 22nd, 1963, and submits the facts, conspiracy theories and background players that were present in Dallas on that day.
Films and the cinema also figured in the capture of Lee Harvey Oswald. The alleged assassin ducked into Texas Theater in Dallas as he was on the run from the murder scene, and was apprehended inside the theater. A war film double feature was playing there – “Cry of Battle” (1963) and “War is Hell” (1963). It was the second film that was interrupted when police descended on Oswald.
The following five films – available for digital download, Blu-ray and DVD – provides different observations and objectives regarding November 22nd, 1963, and submits the facts, conspiracy theories and background players that were present in Dallas on that day.
- 11/21/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Critics might be skeptics, but this drama about the events at the hospital after the shooting gets just about everything right
• Read more about Parkland
• More from the Reel history archive
Parkland (2013)
Director: Peter Landesman
Entertainment grade: B+
History grade: A
On 22 November 1963, John F Kennedy was shot as he was driven through Dallas, Texas, and died shortly afterwards. He was the fourth president of the United States to be assassinated.
People
On the fateful morning, FBI and Secret Service men prepare for Kennedy's visit. Members of the public, including home-movie camera enthusiast Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), look forward to catching a glimpse of their president. At Parkland Hospital, 28-year-old Dr Jim Carrico (Zac Efron) wakes up for his shift and gets on with the important business of flirting with red-headed nurses. The film uses documentary footage and re-enactments to assemble the familiar events of that day: John and Jackie Kennedy...
• Read more about Parkland
• More from the Reel history archive
Parkland (2013)
Director: Peter Landesman
Entertainment grade: B+
History grade: A
On 22 November 1963, John F Kennedy was shot as he was driven through Dallas, Texas, and died shortly afterwards. He was the fourth president of the United States to be assassinated.
People
On the fateful morning, FBI and Secret Service men prepare for Kennedy's visit. Members of the public, including home-movie camera enthusiast Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), look forward to catching a glimpse of their president. At Parkland Hospital, 28-year-old Dr Jim Carrico (Zac Efron) wakes up for his shift and gets on with the important business of flirting with red-headed nurses. The film uses documentary footage and re-enactments to assemble the familiar events of that day: John and Jackie Kennedy...
- 11/21/2013
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
This poignant and painful ensemble drama about the lesser-known figures caught up in the JFK assassination reminds us that history happens to regular people, too. I’m “biast” (pro): love the concept, love the cast
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Half a century on from the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, here’s a fresh perspective on that awful day: that of the ordinary Americans caught up in the chaos. As history ripples out across the city, we meet an array of the people who are hit hardest: the nervous young doctor (Zac Efron: The Lucky One) on call at Parkland Hospital, where the President is rushed after being shot, and the experienced nurse (Marcia Gay Harden: A Cat in Paris) who must calm him down and get him...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Half a century on from the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, here’s a fresh perspective on that awful day: that of the ordinary Americans caught up in the chaos. As history ripples out across the city, we meet an array of the people who are hit hardest: the nervous young doctor (Zac Efron: The Lucky One) on call at Parkland Hospital, where the President is rushed after being shot, and the experienced nurse (Marcia Gay Harden: A Cat in Paris) who must calm him down and get him...
- 11/21/2013
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Like most Americans living today, I was born after November 22, 1963, so I don't remember John F. Kennedy and can't tell you where I was when news broke of his assassination. So here's what I know about the man, his presidency, and his death, thanks to the history professors of Hollywood.
Let me see if I have this right: JFK was a handsome man with the charisma of a movie star. (Indeed, he had connections to Hollywood through his father, a onetime movie producer; through his brother-in-law Peter Lawford and fellow Rat Packer Frank Sinatra; and through his torrid affair with Marilyn Monroe.) Through his youth, good looks, charisma, and forward-looking rhetoric, he inspired a nation to stop wearing hats, build rockets to the moon, and join the Peace Corps. His even more attractive, youthful, stylish, and patrician wife Jackie swept out the dowdy cobwebs of the Eisenhower years and turned...
Let me see if I have this right: JFK was a handsome man with the charisma of a movie star. (Indeed, he had connections to Hollywood through his father, a onetime movie producer; through his brother-in-law Peter Lawford and fellow Rat Packer Frank Sinatra; and through his torrid affair with Marilyn Monroe.) Through his youth, good looks, charisma, and forward-looking rhetoric, he inspired a nation to stop wearing hats, build rockets to the moon, and join the Peace Corps. His even more attractive, youthful, stylish, and patrician wife Jackie swept out the dowdy cobwebs of the Eisenhower years and turned...
- 11/20/2013
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
On Nov. 22, America and the world mark the 50th anniversary of one of the most momentous events of the 20th century, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
As it did last year with "Killing Lincoln," National Geographic Channel has turned to another best-seller by Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard to dramatize the occasion.
Premiering Sunday, Nov. 10, the docudrama version of "Killing Kennedy" follows the twin trajectories of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald until they meet on that fateful day in Dallas' Dealey Plaza.
Directed by Nelson McCormick from a script by Kelly Masterson, "Killing Kennedy" stars Rob Lowe as JFK, Ginnifer Goodwin as first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Will Rothhaar as Lee Harvey Oswald, Michelle Trachtenberg as Marina Oswald, Jack Noseworthy as Bobby Kennedy, Casey Siemaszko as Jack Ruby, Francis Guinan as Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Flood as Kennedy insider Kenneth O'Donnell.
On this bright mid-June day in Richmond,...
As it did last year with "Killing Lincoln," National Geographic Channel has turned to another best-seller by Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard to dramatize the occasion.
Premiering Sunday, Nov. 10, the docudrama version of "Killing Kennedy" follows the twin trajectories of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald until they meet on that fateful day in Dallas' Dealey Plaza.
Directed by Nelson McCormick from a script by Kelly Masterson, "Killing Kennedy" stars Rob Lowe as JFK, Ginnifer Goodwin as first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Will Rothhaar as Lee Harvey Oswald, Michelle Trachtenberg as Marina Oswald, Jack Noseworthy as Bobby Kennedy, Casey Siemaszko as Jack Ruby, Francis Guinan as Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Flood as Kennedy insider Kenneth O'Donnell.
On this bright mid-June day in Richmond,...
- 11/10/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
The 50th-anniversary coverage of the Kennedy assassination on CBS News won’t include the recollections of its longtime anchor Dan Rather, further proof of the lingering bitterness following Rather’s messy exit and subsequent lawsuit against the network.
Rather helped organize CBS’ plans for President John F. Kennedy’s visit to Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, and as a young reporter was a key component of assassination coverage. Now 82, with his own show on Axs-tv, he’s one of the few reporters on the story that day who’s still active in journalism.
Rather, who later became CBS News’ top anchor for 24 years,...
Rather helped organize CBS’ plans for President John F. Kennedy’s visit to Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, and as a young reporter was a key component of assassination coverage. Now 82, with his own show on Axs-tv, he’s one of the few reporters on the story that day who’s still active in journalism.
Rather, who later became CBS News’ top anchor for 24 years,...
- 11/5/2013
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside TV
The assassination of JFK and the conspiracy theories that followed have proved irresistible to writers and artists, from Oliver Stone to Stephen King
• Mark Lawson on the 10 best books inspired by JFK
The grassy knoll. The book depository. Any further description of the location is superfluous. We know where we are, and when. Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas on 22 November 1963: the scene of the assassination of President John F Kennedy. History assumes mythic proportions when its very familiarity requires no further explanation or scene-setting; when it provides instead a well-signposted point of departure for artistic creativity. The matter of Dallas has been as resonant in the fiction and film of the past half century as the story of the Trojan war was in the literature of classical antiquity. Only Hitler and the Nazis rival its influence on the modern imagination.
Yet the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination will not be marked by consensus.
• Mark Lawson on the 10 best books inspired by JFK
The grassy knoll. The book depository. Any further description of the location is superfluous. We know where we are, and when. Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas on 22 November 1963: the scene of the assassination of President John F Kennedy. History assumes mythic proportions when its very familiarity requires no further explanation or scene-setting; when it provides instead a well-signposted point of departure for artistic creativity. The matter of Dallas has been as resonant in the fiction and film of the past half century as the story of the Trojan war was in the literature of classical antiquity. Only Hitler and the Nazis rival its influence on the modern imagination.
Yet the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination will not be marked by consensus.
- 11/2/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Whether you're a grassy knoll-er or a book depository theorist, believe in the magic bullet, the lone gunman or a conspiracy theory that reaches so deep your aunt was involved, you probably have a theory on what exactly happened in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963. Fifty years on from the assassination of John F. Kennedy, theories new and old are sure to be rekindled. Amid all the hubbub, Parkland will offer a fresh multi-stranded perspective on the events of that fateful day and there's a new poster for it soon to adorn a railway platform near you. Written and directed by Peter Landesman, the film digs into the details of the Kennedy assassination to find the people who were affected by the traumatic event.They include Billy Bob Thornton as Forrest Sorrells, the head of Dallas’s Secret Service branch, who took the shooting personally, the rookie doctor (Zac Efron) and...
- 10/30/2013
- EmpireOnline
Ready for a little Grimm girl talk?
TVLine caught up with stars Bitsie Tulloch and Claire Coffee, who gave us the lowdown on what to expect from the supernatural series’ third season premiere (Friday at 9/8c on NBC).
Topics covered include Juliette & Co.’s race against the lurching, rage-filled, zombified clock; a series of grotesque tasks that earn Adalind her Grimm Scouts Gore Badge; Tulloch’s extracurricular American history assignment; and how something Nick does while under the undead influence “affects everyone.”
Read on for more fairy-tale details about the first half of the two-part season opener, then click through...
TVLine caught up with stars Bitsie Tulloch and Claire Coffee, who gave us the lowdown on what to expect from the supernatural series’ third season premiere (Friday at 9/8c on NBC).
Topics covered include Juliette & Co.’s race against the lurching, rage-filled, zombified clock; a series of grotesque tasks that earn Adalind her Grimm Scouts Gore Badge; Tulloch’s extracurricular American history assignment; and how something Nick does while under the undead influence “affects everyone.”
Read on for more fairy-tale details about the first half of the two-part season opener, then click through...
- 10/24/2013
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Chicago – It’s been close to 50 years since 11/22/1963, the day when a certain American innocence was lost with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In time for that anniversary, is the excellent film overview entitled “Parkland.”
Rating: 4.5/5.0
“Parkland” is also the name of the hospital in Dallas, Texas, that Kennedy was taken to after an assassin’s bullet severed half his skull. The film focuses on that hospital’s emergency staff, the president’s bodyguards, the brother of accused gunman Lee Harvey Oswald and dressmaker Abraham Zapruder – an innocent home moviemaker who captured the most crucial eight seconds of the assassination, including the fatal headshot. The film, written and directed by Peter Landesman and produced by Tom Hank’s Playtone Company, is a precisely and reverently done history lesson as to the events and chaos that surrounded the street shooting of a modern president. The cast is up to the challenge of the re-creation,...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
“Parkland” is also the name of the hospital in Dallas, Texas, that Kennedy was taken to after an assassin’s bullet severed half his skull. The film focuses on that hospital’s emergency staff, the president’s bodyguards, the brother of accused gunman Lee Harvey Oswald and dressmaker Abraham Zapruder – an innocent home moviemaker who captured the most crucial eight seconds of the assassination, including the fatal headshot. The film, written and directed by Peter Landesman and produced by Tom Hank’s Playtone Company, is a precisely and reverently done history lesson as to the events and chaos that surrounded the street shooting of a modern president. The cast is up to the challenge of the re-creation,...
- 10/4/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Paul Giamatti has made his name as an actor since the early '90s, and it seems like he's in literally everything these days. For example, he's a Canadian ex-con struggling to make a legitimate living selling Christmas trees alongside Paul Rudd in "All Is Bright" (out in theaters and VOD today), accidentally famous home video-shooter Abraham Zapruder in this weekend's "Parkland," Friar Lawrence in the latest film incarnation of "Romeo and Juliet" (out next week), a slave trader in Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" (October 18), and the villainous Rhino in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" (due out May 2, 2014).
We got the chance to sit down with Giamatti in New York City prior to the release of "All Is Bright" and talked to him about his numerous upcoming roles, the weirdest time a fan spotted him on the street and the feats of strength he and co-star Paul Rudd did...
We got the chance to sit down with Giamatti in New York City prior to the release of "All Is Bright" and talked to him about his numerous upcoming roles, the weirdest time a fan spotted him on the street and the feats of strength he and co-star Paul Rudd did...
- 10/4/2013
- by Kase Wickman
- NextMovie
Editor’s note: Kate’s review of Parkland originally ran during this year’s Tiff, but we’re re-running it now as the film opens in limited release. Eventually someone will attend a showing of Peter Landesman’s Parkland and need to be reminded that President John F. Kennedy went to Dallas, Texas in November of 1963, only to be gunned down during a motorcade through streets lined with well-wishers, but the film’s pre-opening credits text that convey that information is an eye-rolling start to a generally inoffensive film. Centered on the moments just before JFK’s assassination until the day the beloved president was buried (the same day, incidentally, his murderer was also laid to rest), Landesman’s film attempts to convey the emotional and historical impact of the death through the stories and perspectives of various people involved in his final hours. A large cast (including such draws as Zac Efron, Billy Bob Thornton...
- 10/4/2013
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
For a film that's only 93 minutes long, Parkland feels no less than two hours. Recounting the events surrounding the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, the film gets its title from Parkland Memorial Hospital where Kennedy was taken immediately after being shot. Instead of examining the event as a whole, Parkland chooses to focus on the less talked about contributors to this story; the doctors in the hospital, the family of Lee Harvey Oswald, Secret Service and others. Unfortunately, very little about it feels new or even revealing as much as I sat there saying to myself, "Yup, someone got shot and it seems only natural doctors would be the one to try and save him." And so it goes... The narrative introduces us to Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), the man who captured what very well may be the most watched footage ever; Zac Efron and Colin Hanks...
- 10/4/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
In the NBC dark fairytale series Grimm, there are creatures which seemed to have stepped right out of one of your nightmares. But not all creatures are to be feared. Known as wesen, some are good and some are evil, just like their human counterparts. Having just found out about the wesen world, Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli) also found out that he is a descendent of a special lineage known as Grimms. In the first couple of seasons of Grimm, Nick’s fiancé Juliette was living blissfully unaware of the wesen world and the particular new duties of her fiancé outside of his detective work. But finally as the end of Season 2, Nick revealed his secret life and this other supernatural world to Juliette. Unfortunately, just as Juliette was beginning to take it all in stride and get used to the idea of living with wesen all around, up came a zombie apocalypse.
- 10/4/2013
- by Tiffany Vogt
- The TV Addict
Paul Giamatti Moves Into the Bright
By
Alex Simon
Actor Paul Giamatti has become one of the most visible character actors of his generation since his breakout role in 1997’s Private Parts, opposite radio icon Howard Stern. Since then, Giamatti has appeared in over eighty films and television productions, has been nominated for 45 separate awards between 2001 and 2008, and won 26 of them, including both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the titular role in HBO’s John Adams.
Paul Giamatti has two new films opening this weekend: All is Bright, from Anchor Bay Films, has Giamatti portraying ex-con Dennis who joins forces with his former best friend (Paul Rudd) to travel from their native Quebec to New York to sell Christmas trees for the holiday season. A picaresque road trip ensues with truths and reconciliations abounding. The film also stars Sally Hawkins, Amy Landecker and was directed by Phil Morrison.
By
Alex Simon
Actor Paul Giamatti has become one of the most visible character actors of his generation since his breakout role in 1997’s Private Parts, opposite radio icon Howard Stern. Since then, Giamatti has appeared in over eighty films and television productions, has been nominated for 45 separate awards between 2001 and 2008, and won 26 of them, including both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the titular role in HBO’s John Adams.
Paul Giamatti has two new films opening this weekend: All is Bright, from Anchor Bay Films, has Giamatti portraying ex-con Dennis who joins forces with his former best friend (Paul Rudd) to travel from their native Quebec to New York to sell Christmas trees for the holiday season. A picaresque road trip ensues with truths and reconciliations abounding. The film also stars Sally Hawkins, Amy Landecker and was directed by Phil Morrison.
- 10/4/2013
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Parkland is an odd but interesting little movie that chronicles the sideline events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November of 1963. Its interest in the periphery of the Big Story is what makes it unusual and, at times, unsettling, but the filmmakers believe that we already know the obvious. What we don’t know is what it was like to be in the emergency room at Parkland Hospital in the early afternoon of November 22, or how a well-meaning garment manufacturer named Abraham Zapruder was affected by the home-movie footage he shot at Dealey Plaza that day. Journalist turned writer-director Peter Landesman shines a light in the corners of one of the...
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- 10/4/2013
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
James Badge Dale provides the wounded heart of “Parkland,” a film about the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination that unfolds with a documentary-like procession. Zac Efron, Jacki Weaver, Paul Giamatti and others may have their names above the title in the film’s posters, but it is the largely unknown Dale who has earned the strongest reviews for his portrayal of Lee Harvey Oswald’s brother, Robert Oswald. Also read: ‘Parkland’ Review: Too Many JFK Assassination-Adjacent Stories for One Movie “Parkland,” opening Friday, also gives the perspective of the doctors who operated on the president and Abraham Zapruder, the man who famously photographed the.
- 10/4/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Parkland takes place on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas, in the eye of the hurricane that was U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. The focus of the film, though, is not the assassinated leader, but the people on the periphery of the shooting called upon to do their duty in the midst of horror and tragedy.
Based on the Vincent Bugliosi book Four Days in November, Parkland introduces us to characters affected and afflicted by the events of that day, but does little to make these people and their stories compelling.
Among the true-life people that the film chronicles are Secret Service Agent Forrest Sorrels (Billy Bob Thornton), who had never lost a president on his watch, and Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), a tailor who documented footage of the assassination on his 8mm camera. As expected, the assassination stuns both men, but writer/director Peter Landesman doesn’t know...
Based on the Vincent Bugliosi book Four Days in November, Parkland introduces us to characters affected and afflicted by the events of that day, but does little to make these people and their stories compelling.
Among the true-life people that the film chronicles are Secret Service Agent Forrest Sorrels (Billy Bob Thornton), who had never lost a president on his watch, and Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), a tailor who documented footage of the assassination on his 8mm camera. As expected, the assassination stuns both men, but writer/director Peter Landesman doesn’t know...
- 10/3/2013
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
Some stories are just too big to tell in 90 minutes; one of them is the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
This is the fundamental problem with Parkland, a well-intentioned attempt to take an intimate look at the Kennedy assassination from an unusual perspective. Parkland sets out to capture the chaos and emotional turmoil of November 22, 1963 and the three days thereafter, focusing on ordinary people -- Parkland Hospital staffers, FBI agents, and so on -- in extraordinary circumstances. But the film misses its target because the target is far too large.
Parkland wastes no time bringing us into the story. The movie opens only an hour or so before Kennedy is shot, and within minutes we're in a chaotic and bloody Parkland emergency room, where young surgical resident Jim Carrico (Zac Efron) frantically tries to save Kennedy. Assisting him is nurse Doris Nelson (Marcia Gay Harden). Carrico's efforts to revive...
This is the fundamental problem with Parkland, a well-intentioned attempt to take an intimate look at the Kennedy assassination from an unusual perspective. Parkland sets out to capture the chaos and emotional turmoil of November 22, 1963 and the three days thereafter, focusing on ordinary people -- Parkland Hospital staffers, FBI agents, and so on -- in extraordinary circumstances. But the film misses its target because the target is far too large.
Parkland wastes no time bringing us into the story. The movie opens only an hour or so before Kennedy is shot, and within minutes we're in a chaotic and bloody Parkland emergency room, where young surgical resident Jim Carrico (Zac Efron) frantically tries to save Kennedy. Assisting him is nurse Doris Nelson (Marcia Gay Harden). Carrico's efforts to revive...
- 10/3/2013
- by Don Clinchy
- Slackerwood
First-time writer-director Peter Landesman hopes to showcase the emotional and physical struggles that American citizens and officials struggled to deal with in his new drama, Parkland.
Parkland recounts the chaotic events that occurred in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, as it follows the assassination of JFK (Brett Stimely), as he was riding in a parade with his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy (Kat Steffens). The story weaves together the perspectives of a handful of ordinary individuals suddenly thrust into extraordinary circumstances immediately following the president’s death.
Among those who first-handily contended with the murder were such civilians as the young doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital who tried to save Kennedy, including Dr. Malcom Perry (Colin Hanks) and Dr. Charles ‘Jim’ Carrico (Zac Efron); an unwitting cameraman, Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), who captured what became the most watched and examined film in history; and Robert Oswald (James Badge Dale), the brother of...
Parkland recounts the chaotic events that occurred in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, as it follows the assassination of JFK (Brett Stimely), as he was riding in a parade with his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy (Kat Steffens). The story weaves together the perspectives of a handful of ordinary individuals suddenly thrust into extraordinary circumstances immediately following the president’s death.
Among those who first-handily contended with the murder were such civilians as the young doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital who tried to save Kennedy, including Dr. Malcom Perry (Colin Hanks) and Dr. Charles ‘Jim’ Carrico (Zac Efron); an unwitting cameraman, Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), who captured what became the most watched and examined film in history; and Robert Oswald (James Badge Dale), the brother of...
- 10/3/2013
- by Karen Benardello
- We Got This Covered
History hasn't let us think about the blood.
It was all over Jackie Kennedy, the Secret Service Agents and especially the doctors and nurses crowded into that emergency room at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
"Parkland" is a fascinating insider's view of those fateful two days in November 1963, when a president was murdered, his assassin was gunned down in custody and generations of conspiracies were born.
Journalist-turned-filmmaker Peter Landesman and a cast of character actors get across the chaos, confusion, the "rush to judgment" and the fearful but determined people who were on the front lines, eyewitnesses to and participants in history.
Zac Efron is the tired and overawed resident on duty when JFK is frantically wheeled in. Colin Hanks (father Tom Hanks' company produced the film) is the chief surgeon, Dr. Malcolm Perry, summoned from a meeting to join him.
"What is that, a trach?" Dr. Perry says, pointing...
It was all over Jackie Kennedy, the Secret Service Agents and especially the doctors and nurses crowded into that emergency room at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
"Parkland" is a fascinating insider's view of those fateful two days in November 1963, when a president was murdered, his assassin was gunned down in custody and generations of conspiracies were born.
Journalist-turned-filmmaker Peter Landesman and a cast of character actors get across the chaos, confusion, the "rush to judgment" and the fearful but determined people who were on the front lines, eyewitnesses to and participants in history.
Zac Efron is the tired and overawed resident on duty when JFK is frantically wheeled in. Colin Hanks (father Tom Hanks' company produced the film) is the chief surgeon, Dr. Malcolm Perry, summoned from a meeting to join him.
"What is that, a trach?" Dr. Perry says, pointing...
- 10/3/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
New Release
Parkland
PG-13, 1 Hr., 33 Mins.
This episodic drama is set in Dallas during the three days after the JFK assassination, and some of it is highly charged, like the scenes inside Parkland Memorial Hospital when the president is dying. Paul Giamatti deftly traces the anguish of Abraham Zapruder as he figures out what to do with his 8mm film. Yet the movie lacks an authentic period flavor, and it ambles over so much old ground that it doesn’t add up to much. B- —Owen Gleiberman
New Release
All Is Bright
R, 1 Hr., 47 Mins.
It’s been eight years...
Parkland
PG-13, 1 Hr., 33 Mins.
This episodic drama is set in Dallas during the three days after the JFK assassination, and some of it is highly charged, like the scenes inside Parkland Memorial Hospital when the president is dying. Paul Giamatti deftly traces the anguish of Abraham Zapruder as he figures out what to do with his 8mm film. Yet the movie lacks an authentic period flavor, and it ambles over so much old ground that it doesn’t add up to much. B- —Owen Gleiberman
New Release
All Is Bright
R, 1 Hr., 47 Mins.
It’s been eight years...
- 10/2/2013
- by EW staff
- EW - Inside Movies
Though countless books, movies, mini-series and TV specials have dissected, retold, mourned and mythologized the fateful November day in 1963 when the people lost their president, writer-director Peter Landesman sought to tell a different story.
In the process, he brought new information to light and offered an alternative, insider Pov at what happened in the three days following JFK's assassination by focusing on the medical staff (Zac Efron, Marcia Gay Harden) who treated the president and the man who captured the horrifying 8-mm. footage, Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti).
We recently spoke to Landesman in Montreal about the movie, opening October 4, after Parkland visited Venice and the Toronto International Film Festival. Find out what he had to say after the jump.
In the process, he brought new information to light and offered an alternative, insider Pov at what happened in the three days following JFK's assassination by focusing on the medical staff (Zac Efron, Marcia Gay Harden) who treated the president and the man who captured the horrifying 8-mm. footage, Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti).
We recently spoke to Landesman in Montreal about the movie, opening October 4, after Parkland visited Venice and the Toronto International Film Festival. Find out what he had to say after the jump.
- 10/2/2013
- by Andrea Miller
- Cineplex
Though countless books, movies, mini-series and TV specials have dissected, retold, mourned and mythologized the fateful November day in 1963 when the people lost their president, writer-director Peter Landesman sought to tell a different story.
In the process, he brought new information to light and offered an alternative, insider Pov at what happened in the three days following JFK's assassination by focusing on the medical staff (Zac Efron, Marcia Gay Harden) who treated the president and the man who captured the horrifying 8-mm. footage, Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti).
We recently spoke to Landesman in Montreal about the movie, opening October 4, after Parkland visited Venice and the Toronto International Film Festival. Find out what he had to say after the jump.
In the process, he brought new information to light and offered an alternative, insider Pov at what happened in the three days following JFK's assassination by focusing on the medical staff (Zac Efron, Marcia Gay Harden) who treated the president and the man who captured the horrifying 8-mm. footage, Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti).
We recently spoke to Landesman in Montreal about the movie, opening October 4, after Parkland visited Venice and the Toronto International Film Festival. Find out what he had to say after the jump.
- 10/2/2013
- by Andrea Miller
- Cineplex
Peter Landesman’s upcoming Parkland is starting to build a bit of buzz as it heads into its theatrical release on October 4th. The film deals with John F. Kennedy’s assassination and tells the story from the perspective of those who were involved in the immediate aftermath.
We see Zac Efron and Marcia Gay Harden as the doctors trying to save the President when he was rushed to the hospital, we see Paul Giamatti as Abraham Zapruder, the man who shot the footage of the assassination, we see Billy Bob Thornton as the head of the secret service, we see James Badge Dale as Lee Harvey Oswald’s brother Rob etc. It’s a fascinating look at a monumental historic event and when I caught the film at Tiff a few weeks ago, I really enjoyed it.
Unfortunately, most of the reviews haven’t been too hot but people...
We see Zac Efron and Marcia Gay Harden as the doctors trying to save the President when he was rushed to the hospital, we see Paul Giamatti as Abraham Zapruder, the man who shot the footage of the assassination, we see Billy Bob Thornton as the head of the secret service, we see James Badge Dale as Lee Harvey Oswald’s brother Rob etc. It’s a fascinating look at a monumental historic event and when I caught the film at Tiff a few weeks ago, I really enjoyed it.
Unfortunately, most of the reviews haven’t been too hot but people...
- 9/20/2013
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
Don’t bother trying to convince James Badge Dale that there’s a cabal of Badge-ers out there, admirers from his days on 24 and HBO’s The Pacific who are committed to finally making him a household name. The 35-year-old New Yorker may have had notable supporting turns in three big summer movies, but he’s not one to get worked up over such chatter. “People chirp in your ears a lot,” he says. “They tell you, ‘This is going to do this for you, this is going to do that for you.’ I’ve had 10 years of that filtered into my head.
- 9/11/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
For a film that's only 93 minutes long, Parkland feels no less than two hours. Recounting the events surrounding the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, the film gets its title from Parkland Memorial Hospital where Kennedy was taken immediately after being shot. Instead of examining the event as a whole, Parkland chooses to focus on the less talked about contributors to this story; the doctors in the hospital, the family of Lee Harvey Oswald, Secret Service and others. Unfortunately, very little about it feels new or even revealing as much as I sat there saying to myself, "Yup, someone got shot and it seems only natural doctors would be the one to try and save him." And so it goes... The narrative introduces us to Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), the man who captured what very well may be the most watched footage ever; Zac Efron and Colin Hanks...
- 9/8/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Plot: The aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, told from the perspective of the people of Dallas, including the doctors that tried to save the president (Zac Efron, Colin Hanks), Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), who infamously caught the assassination on 8mm film, the secret service, the FBI, and assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's family. Review: Despite being both born eighteen years after the assassination and being a Canadian, I've always thought of the JFK...
- 9/7/2013
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Parkland
Written and directed by Peter Landesman
USA, 2013
The director and the majority of the cast of Parkland were present on Day 2 of Tiff 2013 to promote and support their new film, a dramatization of the chaotic aftermath of John F. Kennedy’s shooting. The movie, a would-be Oscar contender, is a serviceable but wildly uneven account of the tragic event that shook a nation. It is not a biopic of JFK and his time in office leading up to his death, but instead a snapshot of the lives immediately affected by his assassination, from the doctors and nurses at Parkland Memorial Hospital to an everyday manufacturer who captured the assassination on camera as it unfolded.
The background to the shooting is a story everyone is familiar with. In Parkland, with the streets abuzz with anxious Dallas residents eager to see the beloved president, one man, Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), finds...
Written and directed by Peter Landesman
USA, 2013
The director and the majority of the cast of Parkland were present on Day 2 of Tiff 2013 to promote and support their new film, a dramatization of the chaotic aftermath of John F. Kennedy’s shooting. The movie, a would-be Oscar contender, is a serviceable but wildly uneven account of the tragic event that shook a nation. It is not a biopic of JFK and his time in office leading up to his death, but instead a snapshot of the lives immediately affected by his assassination, from the doctors and nurses at Parkland Memorial Hospital to an everyday manufacturer who captured the assassination on camera as it unfolded.
The background to the shooting is a story everyone is familiar with. In Parkland, with the streets abuzz with anxious Dallas residents eager to see the beloved president, one man, Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), finds...
- 9/7/2013
- by Matthew Passantino
- SoundOnSight
Yesterday morning I attended the press launch of the upcoming 57th BFI London Film Festival, happening from October 9th through October 20th. There really was no compelling reason to be there, certainly not at the crack of 9:30am — which is too early for a nightowl like me to up and about and functioning — especially since I could have stayed home and gotten all the same information that was announced at the launch in my pajamas: the program was released online virtually simultaneously.
But being there was a nice way to mark the beginning of a season that has become one of the highlights of living in London for me. I loved the Christmas-morning feel of seeing the program being unwrapped before our eyes. We already knew that Tom Hanks had snagged the unusual distinction of starring in both the opening- and closing-night films, already announced as, respectively, Paul Greengrass’s Captain Phillips,...
But being there was a nice way to mark the beginning of a season that has become one of the highlights of living in London for me. I loved the Christmas-morning feel of seeing the program being unwrapped before our eyes. We already knew that Tom Hanks had snagged the unusual distinction of starring in both the opening- and closing-night films, already announced as, respectively, Paul Greengrass’s Captain Phillips,...
- 9/5/2013
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Please note that this is a capsule review. Our full review is under embargo until the film’s release date, which is October 4th.
Peter Landesman’s impressive directorial debut, Parkland, is a taut picture, one with an all-star cast and a compelling story. Though the film presents us with an event that we’re all incredibly familiar with, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, it does so from a perspective that we don’t usually see: that of the normal, everyday citizens who found themselves caught up in the tragedy.
Parkland provides us with several overlapping stories, all focused on pivotal players in this historic event. Whether it’s the doctors who worked at the Parkland hospital (Zac Efron, Colin Hanks), Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), the man who captured the assassination on film, the Oswald brothers (James Badge Dale and Jeremy Strong), or several members of the FBI and secret service,...
Peter Landesman’s impressive directorial debut, Parkland, is a taut picture, one with an all-star cast and a compelling story. Though the film presents us with an event that we’re all incredibly familiar with, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, it does so from a perspective that we don’t usually see: that of the normal, everyday citizens who found themselves caught up in the tragedy.
Parkland provides us with several overlapping stories, all focused on pivotal players in this historic event. Whether it’s the doctors who worked at the Parkland hospital (Zac Efron, Colin Hanks), Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), the man who captured the assassination on film, the Oswald brothers (James Badge Dale and Jeremy Strong), or several members of the FBI and secret service,...
- 9/4/2013
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
Zac Efron is the doctor on whom a nation's hopes rest in this half-neat, half-botched Rosencrantz and Guildenstern take on the deaths of John F Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald
In the moment of dying it seems that we all become equal, whether you're a gilded commander in chief or an angry loner who can't afford shoes for your kids. John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald were linked by the path of a bullet on a road across Dallas. But they were also conected by the Parkland hospital, which toiled to save the life of the president on November 22nd 1963 and then did the same for his killer just two days later. Both men, poles apart, were eventually bound for the exact same spot.
Parkland, which competes for the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival, is a stolid yet involving account of the chaotic aftermath of the Kennedy slaying,...
In the moment of dying it seems that we all become equal, whether you're a gilded commander in chief or an angry loner who can't afford shoes for your kids. John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald were linked by the path of a bullet on a road across Dallas. But they were also conected by the Parkland hospital, which toiled to save the life of the president on November 22nd 1963 and then did the same for his killer just two days later. Both men, poles apart, were eventually bound for the exact same spot.
Parkland, which competes for the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival, is a stolid yet involving account of the chaotic aftermath of the Kennedy slaying,...
- 9/2/2013
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Former journalist Peter Landesman says 'there's very little proof' behind elaborate explanations for President Kennedy's assassination
• Read Xan Brooks' first look review of Parkland
• Read the first look review of Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises
Conspiracy theories have been unhelpful in the search for truth in the assassination of President Kennedy, it was claimed today by the director of a new film on the subject. Parkland, written and directed by Peter Landesman, has been made to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's death in Dallas in 1963, and details events between Friday 22 November, when Kennedy was gunned down, to Monday 25 when both Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald were buried.
Landesman told a press conference at the Venice film festival that cinema's preoccupation with Kennedy conspiracy theory had "narrowed" the understanding of the events surrounding the assassination. "For 50 years, the speculation and conspiracy has occupied a lot of emotional and narratorial real estate in films,...
• Read Xan Brooks' first look review of Parkland
• Read the first look review of Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises
Conspiracy theories have been unhelpful in the search for truth in the assassination of President Kennedy, it was claimed today by the director of a new film on the subject. Parkland, written and directed by Peter Landesman, has been made to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's death in Dallas in 1963, and details events between Friday 22 November, when Kennedy was gunned down, to Monday 25 when both Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald were buried.
Landesman told a press conference at the Venice film festival that cinema's preoccupation with Kennedy conspiracy theory had "narrowed" the understanding of the events surrounding the assassination. "For 50 years, the speculation and conspiracy has occupied a lot of emotional and narratorial real estate in films,...
- 9/2/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Parkland is the umpteenth telling of the days surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The action takes place from the day of the shooting until the day of Kennedy’s funeral and focuses on some of the lesser-known figures who played an enormous role in that Texan tragedy.
The film begins at Parkland Hospital, Dallas, with dishy resident, Dr Jim Carrico (Zac Ephron), doing the rounds and flirting with his favourite staff nurse. He is watched over by the more experienced Nurse Doris Nelson (Marcia Gay Harden), who adjusts her cap in readiness for the President’s visit; she is about to see more of Kennedy than she could have wished for. We then cut to a local tailor Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), who chooses a prime spot from which to view the cavalcade. It is his Super 8 footage that we have viewed ever since, those grainy colour...
The film begins at Parkland Hospital, Dallas, with dishy resident, Dr Jim Carrico (Zac Ephron), doing the rounds and flirting with his favourite staff nurse. He is watched over by the more experienced Nurse Doris Nelson (Marcia Gay Harden), who adjusts her cap in readiness for the President’s visit; she is about to see more of Kennedy than she could have wished for. We then cut to a local tailor Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), who chooses a prime spot from which to view the cavalcade. It is his Super 8 footage that we have viewed ever since, those grainy colour...
- 9/2/2013
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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