BEST OF ENEMIES with Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Fri, Aug 21, 2015 12:00 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Fri, Aug 21, 2015 4:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Fri, Aug 21, 2015 9:50 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Sat, Aug 22, 2015 12:00 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Sat, Aug 22, 2015 4:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 3 Sat, Aug 22, 2015 9:40 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Sun, Aug 23, 2015 2:15 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Sun, Aug 23, 2015 6:30 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Mon, Aug 24, 2015 12:00 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Mon, Aug 24, 2015 4:30 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Mon, Aug 24, 2015 9:00 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 3 Tue, Aug 25, 2015 2:15 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 3 Tue, Aug 25, 2015 6:45 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Wed, Aug 26, 2015 12:00 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Wed, Aug 26, 2015 4:15 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Thu, Aug 27, 2015 2:15 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Thu, Aug 27, 2015 6:45 PM
Film Info
Runtime:87 min.
Year Released:2015
Production Country:USA
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Morgan Neville
Robert Gordon
Cast:Gore Vidal
William F. Buckley

Description

A riveting account of when William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal went head to head on ABC News to debate during the 1968 Democratic and Republican national conventions and unleashes a highbrow blood sport that marked the dawn of pundit television as we know it today.

In the summer of 1968 television news changed forever. Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each other’s political ideologies were dangerous for America. Like rounds in a heavyweight battle, they pummeled out policy and personal insult—their explosive exchanges devolving into vitriolic name-calling. Live and unscripted, they kept viewers veted. Ratings for ABC News skyrocketed. And a new era in public discourse was born. (USA, 2015, 87 min., Unrated, DCP | Dir. Morgan Neville & Robert Gordon | Sundance Film Festival 2015)