W., round 2.
Before picking up where we left off, that is, the first round of reviews and related profiles, interviews and so on, I’ve just got to note that Kevin B Lee and Matt Zoller Seitz have launched a series at Moving Image Source: “Oliver Stone’s George W Bush biopic W., opening October 17, is his latest foray in a genre that has yielded some of his most memorable work: the political biography. The four Stone films examined in this series of video essays – Born on the Fourth of July, JFK, Nixon and Alexander – dramatize conflicted relationships between highly driven individuals, their heroic ideals, and their service to the nation-state. They amount to cinematic battlefields where sophisticated ideas and recreated events are intensified (or at times, blown away) by expressive camerawork and editing schemes. To bring histrionics into history may seem a dubious project, but in Stone’s hands, it brings an urgency and vitality to his subjects that few filmmakers can match.”
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