The movie, “Seven Days in May,” was a prescient political thriller. President Kennedy, who worried about the power of the right-wing, particularly generals who defied civilian control, encouraged the making of the movie before he was struck down on November 22, 1963.
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CIA critics reviewed the JFK film ‘Executive Action’ even before it was released
Executive Action is perhaps the most famous conspiracy thriller about the John Kennedy assassination, with the exception of Oliver Stone’s JFK. Recently released CIA records in the CREST database show that they were keeping an eye the production and how it was being received. The articles even detail how the CIA may have threatened or tried to stop the production of the film.
Source: CIA Open Source Records on Executive Action | Spy Culture
In ‘Twenty-Six Seconds,’ Alexandra Zapruder talks about her grandfather’s film
The film that would come to bear his name “represented a trauma for our grandfather,” Alexandra Zapruder writes. “It was a source of pain for the Kennedys. It was a reminder of crushing disappointment and abandoned plans for my parents’ generation. It was a burden. It was an intrusion. It was a serious and complicated responsibility.”
Source: ‘Twenty-Six Seconds,’ by Alexandra Zapruder – San Francisco Chronicle
The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates
In 1960, the group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy—Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis—and, following the president’s assassination, the poetic short Faces of November.
Source: The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates- The Criterion Collection (HT/ejc)
JFK assassination film festival
The debut of Plaza Man reminds us that “the cinema of assassination inspired by JFK” never ceases grow.
Send me links to the YouTube trailers of your favorite JFK film (feature, documentary, fictional, factual, or foreign).
Or just watch:
Geraldo Rivera changed America
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Last year, Chris Vogner, movie critic for the Dallas Morning News, reminded us how the first broadcast of Abraham Zapruder’s film of JFK’s assassination on ABC TV in March 1975 changed American popular culture.
The Parallax View: a JFK film that gets it right
From the Guardian.com, “The Parallax View: a JFK conspiracy film that gets it right.”
Is the Single Bullet Theory ruining your sex life?
Its called the Alvy Singer Syndrome. Woody Allen explains.
‘Reclaiming Parkland’: the story behind the flop
Despite a big budget and a host of A-list actors, Tom Hanks’s JFK flick “Parkland” proved to be a dud, As I wrote here last year, “The fact that the movie tanked at the box office and puzzled critics indicated its presentation of JFK’s murder as a fairly ordinary homicide in Texas had no resonance, even with elite media organizations imbued with a cultural affinity for the lone gunman theory.
But the story of the forces behind the making of the movie, explored in James DiEugenio’s book “Reclaiming Parkland,” is an in-depth tale of the collusive culture-making machinery of Hollywood and major news organizations.
From DiEugenio’s website, Citizens for Truth About the Kennedy Assassination:
JFK on film: the cinema of assassination in 2013
The assassination of President Kennedy was, among other things, a seminal event in the history of mediated imagery.
From the moment Abraham Zapruder captured the gunfire that killed the president to Olvier Stone’s 1991 hit “JFK”, to the present when Hollywood still seek to explore, exploit, and explain November 22, 1963, projected film has been a key–perhaps the key–to the way we visualize and understand JFK’s death. Read more
14 conspiracy movies inspired by Dallas
“Belief that sinister forces were behind the assassination of JFK fed into movies — and still does — from a photographer obsessively enlarging an image in “Blow Up” (’66) to Angelina Jolie’s spy game in “Salt” (’10).
A photo gallery from TheWrap.
A tough question for Oliver Stone
Rolling Stone asked: “Will the government ever release all of the [JFK] assassination records?”
Oiiver Stone, director of “JFK,” the movie, replied: “That’s a tough question.”
‘Parkland’ struggles to find an audience
They’re staying away in droves from Tom Hanks’s sad, sad movie. Read more
‘The Bystander Theory’ offers an indie take on JFK
The cinema of assassination has a new entre.
In The Monitor of Brownsville, Texas, native son Tony Zavaleta, talks about his independently made JFK film that will open in November.
