Chris Hegedus and Da Pennebaker's The War Room (1993), now out on DVD and Blu-ray from Criterion, "captures all the voyeuristic you-are-there immediacy of its Direct Cinema forebears, stretching as far back as 1960's Primary, on which Pennebaker served as editor," begins Bud Wilkins in Slant. "Yet it also signals a sea change in the filmmakers' involvement with behind-the-scenes politics, capturing the process just as quantum leaps in communication technology forever altered the ways campaigning gets done."
As if to emphasize that point, David Weigel, introducing his interview with Hegedus and Pennebaker for Slate (Nigel M Smith talks with them, too, for indieWIRE), writes: "They got lucky, and probably no one will ever get this lucky again."
"The real stroke of fortune," writes Louis Menand for Criterion, "was the discovery, within the chaos of the campaign, of a classic buddy story. In the unconventionally charming and disarming [senior strategist James] Carville and the telegenic and enigmatic adviser George Stephanopoulos,...
As if to emphasize that point, David Weigel, introducing his interview with Hegedus and Pennebaker for Slate (Nigel M Smith talks with them, too, for indieWIRE), writes: "They got lucky, and probably no one will ever get this lucky again."
"The real stroke of fortune," writes Louis Menand for Criterion, "was the discovery, within the chaos of the campaign, of a classic buddy story. In the unconventionally charming and disarming [senior strategist James] Carville and the telegenic and enigmatic adviser George Stephanopoulos,...
- 4/1/2012
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