11-10-2013, 04:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-10-2013, 04:56 PM by James Norwood.)
The late film critic Roger Ebert wrote one of the finest reviews of Oliver Stone's "JFK" in 1991. Ebert defended the film in the onslaught of a media attack on Stone that was close to the efforts of William Randolph Hearst to prevent the screening of Orson Welles's masterpiece "Citizen Kane" in 1941. In his review of December 20, 1991, Ebert identified precisely why the JFK assassination has been an enduring wound to the body politic in America for decades, and he praised Stone's film for getting to the heart of the matter:
"Its achievement is that it tries to marshal the anger which ever since 1963 has been gnawing away on some dark shelf of the national psyche."
Ebert also demonstrated why a film critic ought to actually study an historical event, prior to reviewing an historical film:
[FONT=&]"I've been reading the books and articles for the last twenty-five years, and I've not found a single convincing defense of the Warren Commission report….If Garrison's investigation was so pitifuland indeed it was flawed, underfunded, and sabotagedthen where are the better investigations by Stone's attackers?"
[/FONT]
*************
On Ebert's website rogerebert.com, film critic Godfrey Cheshire wrote a fair and balanced review of "Parkland" on October 4, 2013. Cheshire perceptively writes that,
"The film does not question that Oswald was the sole killer of JFK or that he also shot Officer J.D. Tippett, although, rather curiously, it does not show him committing either crime."
Inevitably, the film critic approaching "Parkland" must compare the film in some capacity to Oliver Stone's "JFK." Here is what Cheshire writes:
[size=12]"Oliver Stone's seminal "JFK" was a huge critical and commercial hit because it addressed those issues head-on, giving us a challenging and compelling reading of the tragedy's nature and meaning."
It is getting time to chalk up yet another victory for Oliver Stone. His film "JFK" merits a special screening in the Sixth Floor Museum in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 2013.
James
[/SIZE]
Roger Ebert's 1991 review of "JFK" may be found at: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/jfk-1991
Godfrey Cheshire's current review of "Parkland" may be found at: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/parkland-2013
"Its achievement is that it tries to marshal the anger which ever since 1963 has been gnawing away on some dark shelf of the national psyche."
Ebert also demonstrated why a film critic ought to actually study an historical event, prior to reviewing an historical film:
[FONT=&]"I've been reading the books and articles for the last twenty-five years, and I've not found a single convincing defense of the Warren Commission report….If Garrison's investigation was so pitifuland indeed it was flawed, underfunded, and sabotagedthen where are the better investigations by Stone's attackers?"
[/FONT]
*************
On Ebert's website rogerebert.com, film critic Godfrey Cheshire wrote a fair and balanced review of "Parkland" on October 4, 2013. Cheshire perceptively writes that,
"The film does not question that Oswald was the sole killer of JFK or that he also shot Officer J.D. Tippett, although, rather curiously, it does not show him committing either crime."
Inevitably, the film critic approaching "Parkland" must compare the film in some capacity to Oliver Stone's "JFK." Here is what Cheshire writes:
[size=12]"Oliver Stone's seminal "JFK" was a huge critical and commercial hit because it addressed those issues head-on, giving us a challenging and compelling reading of the tragedy's nature and meaning."
It is getting time to chalk up yet another victory for Oliver Stone. His film "JFK" merits a special screening in the Sixth Floor Museum in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 2013.
James
[/SIZE]
Roger Ebert's 1991 review of "JFK" may be found at: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/jfk-1991
Godfrey Cheshire's current review of "Parkland" may be found at: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/parkland-2013