Clintonoid Celluloid At 2004 Sundance Film Fest: Harry Thomason's "The Hunting of The President"

2004 Sundance Film Guide ^ | December 2003 | Elizabeth Richardson & Joseph Beyer

[L.N. Smithee]

The Hunting of the President

U.S.A., 2003, 89 Minutes, color

Director: Harry Thomason, Nickolas Perry
Screenwriters - Harry Thomason, Nickolas Perry, based on the book by Gene Lyons, Joe Conason
Producer - Douglas Jackson
Coproducers - Chad O'Connor, Amy Greenspun, Keith Sky
Cinematographer - James Robertson

Music - Bruce Miller

Associate Producers - Ben Harrell, Dana Stoltzner

Friday, Jan 23	5:30 PM	Prospector Square Theatre

There can be no doubt that we live in one of the most tumultuous political climates of the nation's history, a climate where politicians can be toppled on a whim, election results disputed in the country's highest courts, and governors unceremoniously recalled. It's enough to leave even the most cynical voter asking, how did this happen? Harry Thomason and Nickolas Perry's incendiary documentary, based on the best-selling book by Gene Lyons and Joe Conason, offers a glimpse at the genesis of these partisan vendettas and explores the myths and truths behind the nearly 10-year campaign to systematically destroy the political legacy of the Clintons. Using previously unreleased materials, interviews, and shocking revelations from both sides of the beltway, this probing work focuses on the smear campaign against Clinton from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas leading up to and including his impeachment trial. Kenneth Starr fans, beware. Less of an advocacy film and more of an alarming treatise on the political power of the media and personal interests, The Hunting of the President offers us a gallery of defeated politicians, disappointed office seekers, right-wing pamphleteers, wealthy eccentrics, zany private detectives, religious fanatics, and die-hard segregationists, all chiming in discord from the tops of their soapboxes.

[L.N. Smithee]

After spending the first three paragraphs of the synopsis making it clear that this filth -- er, film -- is about "partisan vendettas" and a "smear campaign," Richardson and Beyer (whoever they are) run to the middle and allege that it's "[less] of an advocacy film..." and immediately say that Clinton's enemies are "defeated politicians, disappointed office seekers, right-wing pamphleteers, wealthy eccentrics, zany private detectives, religious fanatics, and die-hard segregationists, all chiming in discord from the tops of their soapboxes."

Frankly, I would have been surprised if there wasn't a stridently anti-conservative film at Sundance, founded by fair-to-middling pretty boy actor and left-wing envirowhiner Robert Redford.

[Howlin]

Screenwriters - Harry Thomason, Nickolas Perry, based on the book by Gene Lyons, Joe Conason

HAHAHAHAHAHA....a sure sign of its integrity.

[Howlin]

More "cleansing" for Hillary.

[dakine]

hahaha...Tell us how you REALLY think of Robert Redford..

[Bogey78O]

Will they be handing out kneepads in order to complete the experience?

[TommyDale]

"Clintonoid Celluloid"

I thought for a moment of Hillary's CELLULITE!

[Miss Marple]

I predict this thing wiill get an Academy Award nomination. The Conason, Lyons, and Thomason will make the rounds of the talk shows. (All leading up to the election, of course.)

Bah.

You know what we need? We need a film school dedicated to conservatives, and a studio for production. There are plenty of talented people but the left shuts their voice out of film.

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

Clinton's enemies are "defeated politicians, disappointed office seekers, right-wing pamphleteers, wealthy eccentrics, zany private detectives, religious fanatics, and die-hard segregationists...."

I thought Robert Byrd was a big time Clinton supporter.

[My2Cents]

based on the best-selling book by Gene Lyons and Joe Conason

Best-selling? Where? At the DNC gift-shop?

[joesnuffy]

Too bad they dont do a movie about Hot Springs, Mena, New Orleans, to the White House and Clintonista's management by crisis.....

[dirtboy]

Less of an advocacy film and more of an alarming treatise on the political power of the media and personal interests, The Hunting of the President offers us a gallery of defeated politicians, disappointed office seekers, right-wing pamphleteers, wealthy eccentrics, zany private detectives, religious fanatics, and die-hard segregationists, all chiming in discord from the tops of their soapboxes.

I wonder if Thomason mentions anywhere in the film that Clinton ended up paying Paula Jones 800,000 big ones. Or that a judge fined him as well. Or that he was disbarred from the Supreme Court. Or...

[Tacis]

Get used to it! The overriding mission of the neocommunists is to create a positive legacy for Willie the Sleaze. The ultra-left wing media leads the way. The mission has two prongs, making Willie appear like he wasn't a corrupt, filthy Arkie who would have sold us to the Soviets if he hadn't been getting some, and making every Republican.conservative/good guy seem to be like Willie is.

This will be the media's crusade for the next 25 years.

[Howlin]

OMG....read these reviews of the book:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312273193/103-5309722-8617411?v=glance

[Howlin]

First thread on this:

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1014251/posts

[ThreeYearLurker]

Read the bottom of the reviews:

Customers who bought titles by Joe Conason also bought titles by these authors:

Al Franken
Molly Ivins
Sidney Blumenthal
Paul Krugman
Eric Alterman

'Nough Said!

[Astronaut]

Joe Conason wanted to play the role of Monica Lewinsky in the film version. Its his dream!

[steve8714]

Dangerous Idiots...say, didn't you direct Dune?

[steve8714]

They faked the moon landings on one of her thighs.

[Adrastus]

Hey, Howlin,take a look at the other books purchasers of the book bought. Does that tell you anything? The observation regarding sanitizing sick willy is a bit on the conservative side. It'll be a project that the libs will be beavering away on into the next century.

[Howlin]

I glanced over them......and knew where it was heading before I got to the "Reader's Comments!"

Was it just me, or did you think those "customer reviews" have a distinctly "professional writting style" to them? I mean, perhaps that is what the people in Hillary's New York City office do all day long?