The Party (2017)
There’s a kernel of a decent film in The Party, but it’s scuttled by clumsily blatant attempts at satire.
There’s a kernel of a decent film in The Party, but it’s scuttled by clumsily blatant attempts at satire.
The intellectual American subjects of Best of Enemies – bug-eyed National Review editor and conservative iconoclast William F. Buckley Jr; vaguely-aristocratic-looking playwright, screenwriter and very-un-Right Gore Vidal – are a long way from household names nowadays. This documentary covers the infamous ABC debates between the pair, but where I’d expected a “things sure have changed”…