Best of Enemies (2015)
1h 27m
Running Time
July 31, 2015Release Date
Best of Enemies (2015)
1h 27m
Running Time
July 31, 2015Release Date
Plot.
A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers, and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, "What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?"
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Cast & Crew.
Gore Vidal
Self - Debater
Kelsey Grammer
Self
William F. Buckley Jr.
Self - Debater
John Lithgow
Self
Dick Cavett
Self - Talk Show Host
Noam Chomsky
Self
Todd Gitlin
Self - Media Studies, Columbia University
Christopher Hitchens
Self
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Best of Enemies is a 2015 American documentary film co-directed by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville about the televised debates between intellectuals Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. during the 1968 United States presidential election. The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. It was acquired by Magnolia and Participant Media.The film took five years to make because of struggles to secure funding, get interviews, and uncover archival footage.
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