Watching it on Blu-ray again recently, I was struck by how personal it obviously is to Stone. history, and world history, with help from the historian Peter Kuznick and his own research, and from all of his video editors. We're seeing the contents of a guy's mind, or at least it feels that way. You have to really engage with it.Īnd it's pretty no-frills in terms of its approach. In any case, this was not an "American Masters" special where you can just go, "Yeah, it was pretty good, but there should have been more stuff about Johnny Carson's marriages." It's deeper and broader than that. It got coverage in the political press but not so much from TV critics, who I sensed perhaps did not know what to make of it-or how much to make of its political aspects? Or maybe they just didn't even want to go there, or they decided Stone was a crank and they were done with him? I don't know. Matt Zoller Seitz: Steven, where do you think this series fits in Oliver Stone's lineup of work? I ask because when it aired on Showtime last year, it was treated as a bit of an odd duck.
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