Joseph McBride Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 The Oliver Stone/Jim DiEugenio documentary, JFK REVISITED: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the "Cannes Premiere" section. The festival runs July 6-17. Congratulations on this much-anticipated film. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cannes-2021-lineup-full-list-1234962434/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Cole Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 Ditto! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 Great news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 I'm so looking forward to seeing this!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 Congratulations as well to them. Maybe this a step towards all of us being able to see it in the not too distant future. I wonder if Jim ever borrowed that tux from Mr. Stone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kowalski Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 Have been waiting for this film for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Gallaway Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 JFK revisited: though the Looking Glass ? Wasn't Stone suppose to use Jim's title "Destiny Betrayed"? What am I missing here? https://ventsmagazine.com/2021/03/18/update-director-oliver-stones-kennedy-assassination-documentary-jfk-destiny-betrayed-headed-to-a-cannes-film-festival-premiere/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Brancato Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 That article clearly does Jim a disservice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micah Mileto Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 It's not called Destiny Betrayed? "Through the Looking Glass" is such a generic title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 (edited) I was disappointed to see that Oliver Stone opted not to use the Destiny Betrayed title. It captures the historical essence of the Crime of the 20th Century so aptly. Is Stone mainly trying to re-emphasize the legacy of his great film JFK? On the bright side, at least he didn't call it JFK II... 🤪 Edited June 6, 2021 by W. Niederhut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 (edited) There are two versions of the film. The two hour version which is subtitled Through the Looking Glass. And the four hour version which is subtitled Destiny Betrayed. I don't know where that guy got subjects like Umbrella Man and mysterious deaths. Not in the film. Period. Oliver was trying to tell Spike Lee that, if the fact checker goes by the HSCA and WC, then there will be some question. Because the film, in both versions, relies largely on the disclosures of the ARRB. In my opinion, the ARRB redid the calculus of this case. The problem was that hardly anyone read the stuff. And the media did next to nothing to cover it. Even worse, very few books were based on those disclosures. So, in my view, there was a blackout of their discoveries. Edited June 6, 2021 by James DiEugenio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 3 hours ago, Kirk Gallaway said: JFK revisited: though the Looking Glass ? Wasn't Stone suppose to use Jim's title "Destiny Betrayed"? What am I missing here? https://ventsmagazine.com/2021/03/18/update-director-oliver-stones-kennedy-assassination-documentary-jfk-destiny-betrayed-headed-to-a-cannes-film-festival-premiere/ This is actually a good article promoting the film. " it's still on the hot plate. . . winging it's way to a high profile next year". "Cannes is a big step. . . if not in America, internationally, that's important." And more. Shame it won't be picked up by the incompetent compromised msm. Here's to the higher profile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kowalski Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 7 hours ago, Ron Bulman said: Shame it won't be picked up by the incompetent compromised msm. Oliver will have to distribute his film by selling dvds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph McBride Posted June 6, 2021 Author Share Posted June 6, 2021 Will this film (two versions) cue new attacks by the MSM on their bête noire, Oliver Stone? I recall that when I did some sympathetic interviews with Stone during the fallout from JFK, I was surprised he was actually shocked by the negative attacks. Granted, they were so extreme that their viciousness would have shocked anybody, but I thought he hadn't fully prepared himself for what could have been expected as an onslaught. You have to do that with a controversial film, especially on this subject. He later realized he should have put out the annotated script of JFK day-and-date with the film, as he later did with NIXON, which helped preempt some of his critics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Booth Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 3 hours ago, Joseph McBride said: Will this film (two versions) cue new attacks by the MSM on their bête noire, Oliver Stone? Absolutely it will It's already being suggested--without basis--that the film "failed fact-checking" w/ Netflix and National Geographic. Which probably consisted of some intern googling things and looking at Wikipedia rather than checking Jim's extensive endnotes/documents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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