Sunday, September 8, 2013

"OUR NIXON." is super 8mm youthful hubris captured (meaning shot) on Kodachrome (r.i.p.) film stock and now gorgeously edited into a movie after the FBI had vaulted this material for over 40 years after the Watergate scandal. 

To see raw footage in this film was one thing. But the never-before-released audio tapes of oval office bitching sessions played (in crackling stereo) in this "Tricky Dicky" expose make this extended White House home movie experiment worth every last cent at the ticket-box office. Every last one of these fine gentleman in 3-piece suits threw each other under the bus. Surprise, surprise. By the end of it, you will be grateful to have never run for office (or to have applied to work in any Pennsylvania Avenue office space. Not even in the maintenance dept). 



With Kissinger, Nixon did sit down and negotiate with Red China. I'm quite thankful for that Dick. Next time, bug all of your staff movie cameras instead. bye.