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	Nixon (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The film covers all aspects of Nixon's life in order to get a better psychological portrait of both the man and the president; however, the film is not to be taken as literal history "as it happened", but rather as a pastiche and composite of actual events.
		The film allows for the fact that it was not just a bungled burglary at the Watergate Hotel that caused his downfall but that it was simply the lynchpin that allowed Congress to investigate his other misdeeds and abuses of executive power.
		The film ends with Nixon's resignation and famous departure from the lawn of the White House on the helicopter Army One.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nixon_(movie) (1109 words)

	#1: Nixon
		Nixon festers and fumes and sobs through the movie, particularly in the framing device, just like Marlowe's Edward II does in his chamber, awaiting both the harsh, puncturing retribution of his enemies and the judgments of the offstage audience.
		The film is a towering entry in a genre that barely exists in American film: a pop biography of a recent historical figure, played not for simple bromides or one-stop moral judgments but for a tragic contrast of potential versus outcome.
		Nixon has so many faults and terrible habits that it's hard to see anything that was good about him, save perhaps for his dogged resilience, and even that quality led him straight into a fair number of disasters.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /nixon.html (2579 words)

	Nixon
		The film is out of chronological order, there are flashbacks, flashbacks within flashbacks, documentary sequences etc. etc., which all adds to the underlying feeling of not really knowing what's going on.
		Throughout the film, familiar faced pop up in these smaller roles and, although you can't relate them to the film, the actors portraying them are excellent.
		Nixon thinks that he is doing a good job and the final scene, in which he prays with Henry Kissinger (Paul Sorvino) and asks God why the American people hate him so is very moving.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /nixon.htm (658 words)

	CNN - Stone defends 'Nixon' film's accuracy - Dec 22, 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Supporters of Nixon are calling Oliver Stone's depiction a grotesque distortion that falsely shows the 37th president as evil, profane, and a heavy-drinking schemer.
		Through a statement issued by the Richard Nixon library and birthplace, the late president's daughters said the movie committed a vicious character assassination of their father.
		Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield served as a technical advisor to Stone on the film.
	edition.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9512/nixon2 (380 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Nixon [1996]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The story of the film is close to 'Kane' in its investigation of the trappings of power, but Nixon's personal character has all the eager despair and bewildered arkwardness of Willy Loman.
		Nixon has some great photography, especially some of the wonderfully low lit scenes in the Whitehouse, but the presentation of the picture doesn't do it justice by half.
		This is a film that stays in your mind for a long while since it creates such a dramatic impact on you the viewer through it's psychoanalysis of Nixon's character.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005U1ZC (1285 words)

	HBO: Cynthia Nixon as Miranda Hobbes: Sex and the City
		Nixon received recognition for her role when she was nominated for three Golden Globes® and in 2002 she received her first Emmy® nomination.
		On television, Nixon was seen in Wendy Wasserstein's "Kiss-Kiss, Dahlings!", "The Love She Sought" with Angela Lansbury, "Fifth of July", with Richard Thomas and Swoosie Kurtz, HBO's "Tanner 88", "The Murder of Mary Phagan" with Jack Lemmon and "Face of a Stranger" with Gena Rowlands and Tyne Daly.
		Nixon, a strong supporter, graduate, and concerned parent of New York City Public Schools, is actively working with the Alliance for Quality Education, a group that fights for funding and quality public education across the state.
	www.hbo.com /city/cast/actor/cynthia_nixon.shtml (675 words)

	H. R. Haldeman Encyclopedia @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		He joined Nixon's successful 1968 presidential campaign underway as Chief of Staff and was credited with presenting a revitalized Richard Nixon to the public, using the experience of his many years in advertising.
		Both were ruthless in protecting what they and Nixon saw as the president's best interests; Haldeman referred to himself as Nixon's "son of a bitch".
		The book also suggested a CIA plot to cover-up various facts damaging to the agency, including issues related to the Oliver Stone, in his 1995 film Nixon, speculated (without any historical substantiation) that the missing 18 1/2 minutes of tape may have contained a discussion concerning a cover-up of the Kennedy assassination.
	www.launchbase.net /encyclopedia/H._R._Haldeman (759 words)

	Nixon (1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		In fact, she's angry at him so often in the film you have to wonder, what exactly does she love about the man? The film never answers (or attempts to answer) this question.
		It paints both Nixon and the times he (and the country) lived through on a grand and mythic scale that was truly awesome and, once again, entirely appropriate.
		Yes, it's a film that is at times big, loud and bombastic (because so, after all, was Nixon himself) but, just as often quiet, contemplative and told at an achingly human level.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0113987 (641 words)

	Film Movie American History President Essays - Masculinity in Oliver Stone's Nixon
		In Nixon, Stone uses similar techniques to posit equally troubling theses: the first that Nixon, while Vice President, was involved in a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro, and, second, that Nixon was directly or inadvertently responsible for the deaths of John and Robert Kennedy.
		Nixon tells Hoover that he wants to fight “just as dirty” as Bobby Kennedy, and Hoover reminds him “that the system can only take so much abuse, it will adjust itself eventually.” He adds that “there are savage outbursts,” and as he rants the horse continues to buck and foam behind him.
		Nixon’s comment that flowers remind him of death connects the images of flowers and destructive tuberculosis cells because of the swift way both are shown blooming and growing, much like the power of the Beast that blooms and grows quicker than Nixon can control it.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=28117 (6398 words)

	Nixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nixon is a surname, and may refer to
		Tricia Nixon Cox, elder daughter to Richard and Pat Nixon
		Nixon: Ruin and Recovery 1973-1990 by Stephen Ambrose
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nixon (189 words)

	channel4.com/film - The Assassination Of Richard Nixon
		Back in 1974, six months before Watergate cost Richard Nixon his job as the president of the United States, a lonely, failed salesman by the name of Sam Byck attempted to kill him by hijacking a 747 and crashing it into the White House.
		The incident was quickly forgotten as the country became mired in Watergate and the protracted withdrawal from Vietnam.
		Pitched somewhere between 'Death Of A Salesman' and Taxi Driver, Mueller's fictionalised film presents Bicke (the spelling has been changed for legal reasons) as a socially inept everyman betrayed by everything he was brought up to believe in and unable to adapt once the façade fell away.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=144156 (262 words)

	Nixon (1995) - MovieWeb
		Although he is one of the most chronicled public figures of the 20th century, Richard Milhous Nixon remains an enigma to many, his decisions, motives and behavior often shrouded in mystery.
		"Nixon" is a dramatized attempt to understand the man behind the tarnished presidential seal, who, to paraphrase his own words, scaled life's greatest heights and plunged into its deepest valleys.
		"Nixon," with visual and thematic boldness, tells the extraordinary personal story of America's controversial 37th President: a man whose lifelong quest for public acceptance through political power constantly eluded him...
	movieweb.com /movie/nixon (158 words)

	INKPOT MOVIE REVIEWS: NIXON
		NIXON chronicles the life of the 37th President of the United States, focusing more on his controversial years from 1960 to 1974.
		Anthony Hopkins was great as Nixon (though he may not bear much resemblance to the real Nixon); from the wry smile which he pulls right down to the trademark Nixon `Victory' poses.
		NIXON is not an easy film to appreciate if you lack the knowledge of some historical facts on the Watergate Scandal.
	inkpot.com /film/nixon.html (636 words)

	The Assassination of Richard Nixon : film review
		We witness a desperate man who feels betrayed by the Nixon Government to the extent that he plans to hijack a commuter plane and crash it into the White House - a chilling foretelling of what was to happen 30 years later on 9/11.
		Penn has described the making of Nixon as "a misery" mainly because of the depressing parallels he sees between the Gerge W Bush and Nixon administrations: George W is a salesman peddling patter aimed soley at winning the presidency, which is what Bicke believed Nixon to be and was the motive behind his assassination plot.
		The film subtly delivers its socio-political statements, commenting on the harsh realities of life for millions of Americans who live below the poverty line and, like Bicke, could be drawn into expressing their frustrations through crime and violence.
	www.musicomh.com /films2/assassination-nixon.htm (550 words)

	Oliver Stone: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		Taking these films as its points of departure, this paper examines the role of images in the construction of history, the form of the docudrama, the reenactment of historical images, fantasies of history, and ways in which paranoia is part of the practice of citizenship." COPYRIGHT 1997 Wesleyan University.
		The merit of this film certainly does not lie in its rather affected directing style, which is also evident in Stone's other films JFK and Natural Born Killers; it is to be found in the incredible performance of Anthony Hopkins, playing a nerve-ridden, perspiring Nixon.
		A modern-day film noir set in the American Southwest, the movie is a thriller that relates the story of loner-on-the-run Bobby Cooper (Sean Penn), a quintessential drifter who becomes stranded in a defunct mining town when his car breaks down, only to become a pawn in a double-crossing scheme involving the locals.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/stone.html (14321 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON movie by Niels Mueller with Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don ...
		A modest film with large ambitions and big names, "The Assassination of Richard Nixon" marks the directorial debut of UCLA film-school grad Niels Mueller.
		Until this film, that pretty much describes the extent of notoriety for an obscure man who, to settle scores and earn respect, sought a very public death.
		After Jack lauds Nixon because he won election both times by selling 200 million Americans the same lie twice — i.e., a promise to end the war in Vietnam — Sam begins equating the businessman's tricks of the retail trade with the duplicity of Tricky Dick.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2004/assassinationofrichardnixon.php (1103 words)

	Amazon.com: Nixon - Collector's Edition: DVD: Joan Allen,Brian Bedford,Powers Boothe,Tom Bower,Kevin Dunn,Fyvush ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Nixon is a penetrating, engrossing biography that both portrays him as a ruthless, vicous, paranoic lunatic and a character who elicits sympathy from the audience.
		Nixon was cold and unfeeling except when it came to something that touched on his self-interest, and then he became pathological.
		A third great scene is late in the film as a drunken Pat Nixon confronts Nixon, who is falling apart under the pressure of the Watergate investigation, her eyes the eyes of woman looking at a worm, her manner accusatory and venomous.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000063V8K?v=glance (3451 words)

	Amazon.com: Nixon: An Oliver Stone Film: Books: Eric Hamburg,Oliver Stone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		In this companion to the film, which includes the complete screenplay with full annotation, an interview with Oliver Stone, essays by prominent Watergate figures, previously classified memos and documents from the Nixon White House, and other documentation, Nixon emerges as a political leader governed by personal demons.
		The essays that accompany the script to Stone's upcoming film Nixon offer both traditional and revisionist accounts of Nixon authored by both players and scholars, including John Dean, E. Howard Hunt, Alexander Butterfield, Schorr, and Stanley Kutler.
		I don't know how much of this story of Nixon is true, but what is written is a very dramatic and interesting story of the goings-on in the White House.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786881577?v=glance (974 words)

	Film Review: The Assassination Of Richard Nixon
		His boss (inspired performance from Jack Thompson) attempts to show him the ropes and give him advice on the dark arts of gentle persuasion, but Sam's lack of self-esteem, coupled with an innate fear of making mistakes, disempowers him to the point of breakdown.
		The film starts near the end, goes back a couple of weeks and then a year, which feels like dramatic gimmickry so that director Niels Mueller can use a tape recording that Sam makes for the conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein, explaining his actions, as a voice-over narrative.
		It appears that his motive for flying to Washington to kill the President is to do something so audacious that he will be remembered and, therefore, become important in the mind of the nation.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/a/assassination_of_richard_nixon_2004.shtml (439 words)

	Nixon - Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Richard M. Nixon (Anthony Hopkins) is a determined law student from a poor Quaker family.
		At the beginning of the 40´s he becomes a delegate in the house of representatives, by the age of 37 he is senator, and two years later he is vice-president beside Dwight D Eisenhower.
		In 1972 Richard M. Nixon becomes the 37th President of the United States of America.
	www.movie-2-dvd.org /film/nixon.html (169 words)

	Nixon Film Review - Time Out Film
		Though fragmented and using various styles and filmstocks, this is more engrossing than most of the duds in the director's ambitious but frustrating career, partly because it focuses squarely on such a tantalising protagonist.
		As played (not mimicked) by Hopkins, Tricky Dick is a maelstrom of emotions: convinced he's universally misunderstood and hated; haunted by guilt over the dead Kennedys and his own TB-afflicted brothers; alternating between idealism and despair, honesty and lies; scared, stubborn, erratic.
		With Watergate dominating the third and final hour, however, the narrative becomes more familiar, predictable and prone to bathos and bombast: as wayward and self-regarding as its subject, the film long overstays its welcome.
	www.timeout.com /film/63447.html (239 words)

	Nixon Presidential Materials - Main Motion Film File Finding Aid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Film is composed of: photos of Nixon as a child and with his family; shots of Nixon campaign workers; Hannah Nixon on the phone; the "Kitchen Debate"; endorsement by President Eisenhower; scenes from the 1960 Republican Convention; 'man on the street' interviews with Nixon supporters.
		Nixon correctly predicts the closest election in the history of the nation.
		Footage of Nixon meeting with heads of state; laying a wreath on the Mahatma Ghandi memorial; with native dancers in Pakistan and Romania; and a meeting with Wilson in London.
	nixon.archives.gov /find/av/motion_film/main_finding_aid.html (6584 words)

	The Assassination of Richard Nixon :: Film Review :: ABC Brisbane
		He figures that Nixon is the root of all of this evil and as he slowly descends into obsession and outright madness decides that he'll go out after Tricky Dicky himself.
		The ominous mood of the piece is stunning and the pain we experience through Penn's performance is incredibly moving, somewhat a kin to his work in "I am Sam".
		This is a really interesting film, which was initially written as fiction and then slightly modified to be based on a true story of an everyday American guy who sets out to "do the right thing" and seek after some degree of truth and justice, in his seemingly meaningless and desperate existence.
	www.abc.net.au /brisbane/stories/s1387623.htm (576 words)

	Sean Penn Links Dark Nixon Film to Anger with Bush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Based on fact, the story is set during the time of the Watergate scandal with newscasts and footage of Nixon's speeches woven into the story.
		The film was billed as having its world premiere at Toronto but it was screened outside of competition at Cannes earlier this year.
		The film won't hit theaters until late December, prime time for movies expected to get Oscar attention but well after the November U.S. election, as first-time director Niels Mueller pointed out to a reporter who asked whether he was hoping to influence voters.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1216084/posts (1335 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Gary Westfahl's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film
		Westfahl's avowed inspiration for his own text is David Thomson's Biographical Dictionary of Film, both in its insistence that while film-making is collaborative in nature, it remains the work of identifiable individual talents, and in its insistence that the author's opinions about his subject should be stated boldly and clearly.
		Because it is impossible to fabricate any arguments regarding his importance to science fiction films, Chaney must rather serve as the occasion for a critique of the literature surrounding horror movies.
		A cult audience I subscribe to myself is that of the silent film in general; it's a mode of filmmaking I've always had a feeling for ever since I got interested in films to begin with.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2002/12/13/024438.php (2309 words)

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