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Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia

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CRITICS PICK. IMMENSELY ENJOYABLE…INVIGORATING.

— Ernest Hardy, The Village Voice

FLAWLESS.

— Wilbert L. Cooper, Vice Magazine

HIGHLY ENTERTAINING.

— Dennis Harvey, Variety

Presented by Sundance Selects | United States | May 23rd, 2014 | 90 MINS | NR

Controversial, brilliant, and ever entertaining, the late Gore Vidal recalls his remarkable life as America’s most outspoken intellectual superstar in this illuminating, up close and personal documentary. Through intimate interviews with Vidal himself, as well as friends and colleagues like Tim Robbins and Christopher Hitchens, the film reveals how the charismatic cultural critic used the media to wage blistering attacks on hypocrisy and establishment politics. Vidal is witty, unsentimental, and enlightening as ever in this definitive portrait of one of the most fascinating personalities of the last century.

Director

  • Nicholas D. Wrathall

Producers

  • Nicholas Wrathall
  • Theodore James
  • Burr Steers

Executive Producers

  • Nicholas Wrathall
  • Erik Nelson
  • Mike Barnett
  • Dave Harding
  • Damon Martin
  • Andrew Kortschak
  • Walter Kortschak
  • Chad Troutwine

Writer

  • Nicholas Wrathall