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Welcome to Leith(Movie), An Honest Liar(Anime), Life Itself(Movie), 20 Feet from Stardom(Movie), Weiner(Movie), Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia(Movie), Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer(Movie), The Fog of War(Movie), Jesus Camp(Movie), Cartel Land(Movie), The Wolfpack(Movie)
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the debates that took place between buckley and vidal on television provides a bridge between the past and the present when it comes to intellectual exchanges of ideas on television. buckley and vidal were actually very intelligent people who were skilled with words and could stage interesting debates and arguments, unlike many of the pundits that you see on television today. these were influential intellectuals who seriously knew what they were talking about. television allowed a place for an actual exchange of ideas between people like this. much like the kennedy - nixon debates. television... read
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more admirable than amazing, this documentary captures the famous and contentious debates between conservative william f. buckley and liberal gore vidal during the 1968 presidential conventions that helped set the stage for where political punditry has gone since. the footage of the debates themselves are fascinating; the talking head interviews are a bit less so. but it's edited together effectively and the film does a solid job of documenting one of the most influential events to happen in american journalism during a very strife-ridden era of history. read
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