'Best of Enemies' is 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 replace... (Full plot summary below)
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'Best of Enemies' is 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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| The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyFor American viewers of an intellectual/historical persuasion, there could scarcely be any documentary more enticing, scintillating and downright fascinating than Best of Enemies. |
| Baret NewsKam WilliamsA must-see account of the birth of passionate, television punditry. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongDid anyone win? Most say Vidal, since Buckley descended to physical threats. But really, has anyone won in any of this endless bickering? |
| CraveOnlineWilliam BibbianiAlmost as smart, funny and vicious as Buckley and Vidal themselves. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneJim Brunzell IIIUnfolding over the course of a month, these debates were a game-changing event in American politics and unscripted television, which left both men continuing to trade barbs for decades. |
| Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyThis deliciously feisty doc contextualizes their verbal brawls and the odd love-hate (mostly hate) rivalry between two men who seemed able to regard their own sense of heroism only through the other’s villainy. |
| VarietyJoe LeydonBoth fascinating as a glimpse at the not so distant past, and provocative as an account of what arguably was an early step in the decline of political discourse on television. |
| RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireProvides a rich, extraordinarily fascinating account that’s sure to have many viewers’ minds constantly shuttling between then and now, noting how different certain things about politics and media were in that distant era, yet marveling at how directly those archaic realities led to many of our own. |
| honeycuttshollywood.comKirk HoneycuttA must-see for anyone seriously interested in our political history and the current 'culture wars' afflicting our nation. |
| Monsters and CriticsRon WilkinsonTelevision stops imitating life and becomes it in the first reality show of all time. |
