JFK - Special Edition Director's Cut
by Oliver Stone
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Actor: Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Costner, Michael Rooker, Tommy Lee JonesDirector: Oliver Stone
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 206 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1997-04-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of JFK - Special Edition Director's Cut
DVD Review: OLIVER STONE INVENTING HISTORY ONCE AGAIN
Summary: 1 Stars
So we are lead to believe that the JFK conspiracy was the most complex and perfect assignation that ever took place.
Nothing was over looked every i was dotted . Then how do conspiracy Freaks explain the Zapruder Film.
The Zapruder Film is the proof that there was no conspiracy
It was the perfect conspiracy nothing was over looked except the Guy with the Movie Camera filming the whole thing.
Why are the only Two conspiracies the United states Government can keep secret are The JFK assignation and the Roswell Saucer crash.
Answer: Because both of the above never happened
DVD Review: In terms of pure filmmaking, this film is a masterpiece....
Summary: 5 Stars
If you jettison the politics of this movie (and Stone's reputation as a muckracker), and simply look at JFK as a film, it's arguably Oliver Stone's best film and it is absolutely rivetting. It's a masterpiece of cinemtography, editing, writing, and performances. I've only seen the initial 189 minute theatrical version, and that film is my favorite Oliver Stone film. Stone's scope of this project is incredible. He not only makes an epic about the JFK assassination, but he makes it so fascinating and enthralling that you marvel as his talents as a filmmaker. The cinematography here is astounding. Robert Richardson shoots in 35mm, 8mm, and 16mm, color, black and white, tinted color, tinted black and white, and it all blends seamlessly. The editing on this monster is also a marvel (it deservedly won an Oscar for editing). The film has a ton of cuts (something in films I don't like), but Stone and his editors do wonders with it. The performances deserve special mention as well. Costner is very effective as Jim Garrison, the New Orleans prosecutor who believed in the conspiracy of JFK's assassination. Costner does a New Orleans accent very well, much better than his rather pathetic "English" one for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. There are numerous cameos in the film, but they don't feel like cameos. Stone manages to make each actor/character unique and interesting. It never feels like star spotting. Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Kevin Bacon, Donald Sutherland, Joe Pesci, and Ed Asner (as a right wing demogagoue, which is funny considering Asner is a very left wing liberal) are standouts in a magnificent cast.
When you watch this film, think of it as "Stone's interpretation of the JFK assassination". There are numerous discrepancies here (such as Garrison meeting with Mr. X, played by Sutherland. That never happened), but if you look at this film strictly as a film, it's remarkable and worthy of the accolades it has received over the years. It's one of Oliver Stone's most memorable films, and a reminder of what a great director he can be when he's on.
DVD Review: Very well made movie - just don't go looking for real history
Summary: 2 Stars
Stone, more than just about anyone in hollywood, has taken an assortment of God given talents and sqandered them on a career spent in creating his own version of history. What Stone doesn't understand is that if he would have just stuck with facts - instead of expanding on theories generally accepted as crackpot - this would have been a very good movie. I'd like to give it more stars but can't get past the idea that Stone is spewing out his own agenda.
Good if you don't care about real facts.
DVD Review: Oliver Stone's masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
This controversial film by Oliver Stone on the JFK assasination has taken on a life all its own. I recently saw it again on HD Net and I was drawn into it all over again by the brilliant performances, Stone's direction and the story itself. Many people have criticized Stone for taking liberties with the story but this is not a documentary this is a drama!! Costner is brilliant in particular and his summation scene in court is belongs to his best work (also counting his role in Eastwood's "A Perfect World"). The aim of an artist is to make us question the truth and Stone has certainly succeeded at that. Remember how many people felt the plot in "The Manchurian Candidate" grows eerily factual as time goes by!! If you are repelled by the current events now unfolding before us--the Iraq war, the recession--do see this film again!!DVD Review: Inaccurate bull****
Summary: 1 Stars
The real shame of a movie like this is that so many viewers think it has some relationship to reality.
Don't get me wrong. I happen to be one of those people who believes that the Warren Commission version of the Kennedy assassination is full of holes. It's probable that Oswald was part of a large conspiracy, and that, in his own words, he was "a patsy."
That does not mean, however, that Oliver Stone's paranoid fantasies have any basis in reality.
Jim Garrison, the character played by Kevin Costner, is a real person. He was really the DA of New Orleans. He really indicted prominent homosexual businessman Clay Shaw for conspiracy to murder John F. Kennedy. After a legal persecution that lasted for about two years, culminating in a trial that took weeks, a jury of sensible adults acquitted Clay Shaw of all the charges against him. They took less than an hour to review the paltry evidence before deciding in Shaw's favor.
In the years since the trial ended, gay rights organizations in New Orleans have erected plaques in various parts of the city commemorating Shaw's contribution to the city's economic growth. He was a victim, pure and simple. There was almost no evidence against him at all.
Garrison's entire career as DA might be looked at as one long publicity stunt. Right after he got elected, he indicted his predecessor for malfeasance, but the case was dismissed for lack of evidence. He staged a big crackdown on crime in the French Quarter, but got almost no convictions. When he accused a bunch of judges of conspiring against him, they charged him with criminal defamation and won. He accused the state parole board of accepting bribes, but couldn't even get an indictment. Garrison was great at holding press conferences, but not so great at proving his numerous accusations.
In my own mind, there are two ways to view Jim Garrison. One is that he was a glory-seeking opportunist. The other is that he was a glory-seeking nutcase. It is a travesty that any movie should be made about Garrison that features him as a hero. In fact, he was a paranoid manipulator of the legal system who victimized an innocent man. In the hands of an actor better than Costner, with a script that didn't sugar-coat the facts, this story about the wild ravings of a glory hound could have been a great comedy.
Description of JFK - Special Edition Director's Cut
Director Oliver Stone added 17 minutes of previously unseen footage for the "director's cut" edition of his hypnotic courtroom epic about the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963. That fateful day in Dallas set in motion a sequence of events that would only intensify the mystery behind Kennedy's death, causing New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) to begin an investigation that would gradually become a personal obsession. Bravura filmmaking combined with controversial treatment of historical facts and audacious speculation, this breathtaking revision of history presents a mesmerizing parade of shady figures and conspiracy theories, unfolding like a classic mystery based on history's greatest unsolved crime. A technical triumph boasting Oscar-winning cinematography and editing, Stone's film is guaranteed to grab the viewer's attention with its daring take on the JFK controversy. The stellar supporting cast includes Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pesci, Jack Lemmon, Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Kevin Bacon, and Gary Oldman as Lee Harvey Oswald. --Jeff ShannonGeneral DVDs
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