Release Date: 07/31/2015 (US)
Duration: 1h 27m
Genre: Documentary, History
Vidal vs. Buckley Two men, ten debates. None Will Ever Be the Same on Television.
A film about the iconic series of nationally televised debates between two great public intellectuals, liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley Jr., that took place in 1968. These vitriolic and volatile experiences, intended as satire on the topics of the day, came to represent the new age of democratic debate in the media, representing the big bang moment of our current media environment where spectacle trumped content and contention replaced material. Best of Enemies delves into the complicated biographies of these two brilliant philosophers, reveling in the rhetoric and theatre of their interviews, posing the issue, “”What has media done to the way we approach politics in our democracy today?””
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