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Deadline
January 17, 2018
Jarecki, who has twice won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and has directed such docus as Why We Fight, Reagan and The Trials of Henry Kissinger, makes a case that the journey of Presley from ground breaking singer to a fat drug addict who died on the toilet, is a cautionary tale for this country.
Baltimore Beat
December 22, 2017
Another Oscar season. Another Woody Allen movie. Another attempt to shuffle past Dylan Farrow's accusation of childhood sexual assault while Allen puts a thinly veiled screed against her mother into theaters. The “For Your Consideration” screener for Allen's latest, “Wonder Wheel,” even consideratelyÃâà...
WHYY
October 26, 2017
However, one would be remiss in not considering another documentary, called “The Trials of Henry Kissinger.” This one was based on Christopher Hitchens' 2001 Harper's Magazine article, “The Case Against Henry Kissinger,” which put forth the theory (now accepted as fact) that, behind Johnson's back,Ãâà...
Hollywood Reporter
May 20, 2017
Director Eugene Jarecki has built a well-deserved reputation for impeccably crafted, scrupulously researched and, above all, concisely argued and structured left-leaning documentaries, among them The Trials of Henry Kissinger, Why We Fight and The House I Live In. Sadly, although his latest, PromisedÃâà...
The Guardian
May 14, 2017
“I first met Nick over The Trials of Henry Kissinger, with Eugene Jarecki – Nick arranged a shotgun wedding and forced us to work together. That was quite a trial by fire. It all turned out well, but that was a mixture of Nick's bravado and genius and sense of how to make things happen. Over the years we'veÃâà...
Hollywood Reporter
April 26, 2017
Both of his documentaries — Why We Fight, about the rise of the military-industrial complex, and The House I Live In, about the war on drugs — won Sundance Grand Jury Prizes and Peabody Awards. His other credits include the Emmy-winning HBO documentary Reagan and The Trials of Henry KissingerÃâà...
Paste Magazine
August 11, 2016
... good article); Christopher Hitchens wrote a whole book about what a bastard Kissinger was, and there was even a documentary made about Kissinger's war crimes called “The Trials of Henry Kissinger.” But here is my brief, humbly inadequate recap of how Henry Kissinger did so much harm to the world,Ãâà...
The Nation.
February 12, 2016
But The Trials of Henry Kissinger was more than an argument; it was a detailed indictment (“using only what would hold up in international courts of law”) of an official who Hitchens accused of authorizing atrocities against Bangladesh, Chile, Cyprus, East Timor, Indochina, and the Kurds of Iraq. It was wellÃâà...
Daily Maverick
January 18, 2012
But then Kissinger attended Ferguson's second wedding late last year and like the subject of his book, the historian is a Harvard man. “Christopher Hitchens wrote a book and made a film called The Trials of Henry Kissinger, but this was meant to be a very different approach where we let Kissinger do all theÃâà...
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