Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Directors: Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville.America in 1968 was a volatile and turbulent place. The country was still deeply embroiled in an unpopular and unwinnable war in Vietnam, and back home there were race riots and both Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated. And there were the presidential conventions in which both the Democratic Party and the …
GORE VIDAL: THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA
Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Nicholas Wrathall.Gore Vidal, who died in 2012 aged 86, was towering figure on the American political and cultural landscape for over half a century. In this documentary we get a brief biographical sketch of Vidal, the son of a US senator, born into a life of wealth and privilege. His father had an affair with Amelia Earheart, and Vidal himself rubbed shoulders with …
