Product Description

Oliver Stone's powerful film about the mystery surrounding the Kennedy assassination is one of the most provocative movies of our time. Aside from its box-office success and critical acclaim, it was nominated for eight Academy Awardsr (including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor), winning two (Best Cinematography and Film Editing).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15192 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2008-11-11
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French
• Dubbed in: French
• Dimensions: .45 pounds
• Running time: 189 minutes

Features

• Blu-ray
• 16 X 9 LETTERBOX
• Digibook
• EC is SD. Audio is Stereo. Behind the Story (bucket) Commentary by Director Oliver Stone Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy (RT 90:00) Additional Footage (bucket) Deleted/Extended Scenes - With Commentary by Director Oliver Stone - Production Audio Only Jack Ruby injected with Cancer. (RT: 3:13) Jim Garrison and Dean Andrews - extended. (RT: 4:54) Jim Garrison and Liz Garrison at home. (RT: 1:16) Jim Garrison and Colorado businessman. (RT: 9:10) Beverly Oliver Interview - extended. (RT: 5:39) Jean Hill Interview - extended. (RT: 2:43) Jim Garrison in the book depository. (RT: 2:18) Antoine's restaurant - Oswald information - extended. (RT: 4:29) Clay Shaw trial 1 - Oswald information - extended. (RT: 1:55) Clay Shaw trial 2 - Oswald information - extended. (RT: 3:32) Fantasy Sequence - Oswald from the grave. (RT: 3:22) Alternate ending. (RT: 12:06) Extras (bucket) Multimedia Essays: Assassination Update - The New Documents (RT 29:37) Meet Mr. X: The Personality and Thoughts of Fletcher Prouty (RT 11:02) Trailer (bucket) Theatrical Trailer #2 (RT 2:19)

Amazon.com essential video
Director Oliver Stone added 17 minutes of previously unseen footage for the "director's cut" edition of his hypnotic courtroom epic about the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963. That fateful day in Dallas set in motion a sequence of events that would only intensify the mystery behind Kennedy's death, causing New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) to begin an investigation that would gradually become a personal obsession. Bravura filmmaking combined with controversial treatment of historical facts and audacious speculation, this breathtaking revision of history presents a mesmerizing parade of shady figures and conspiracy theories, unfolding like a classic mystery based on history's greatest unsolved crime. A technical triumph boasting Oscar-winning cinematography and editing, Stone's film is guaranteed to grab the viewer's attention with its daring take on the JFK controversy. The stellar supporting cast includes Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pesci, Jack Lemmon, Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Kevin Bacon, and Gary Oldman as Lee Harvey Oswald. --Jeff Shannon

Amazon.com
Director Oliver Stone added 17 minutes of previously unseen footage for the "director's cut" edition of his hypnotic courtroom epic about the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963. That fateful day in Dallas set in motion a sequence of events that would only intensify the mystery behind Kennedy's death, causing New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) to begin an investigation that would gradually become a personal obsession. Bravura filmmaking combined with controversial treatment of historical facts and audacious speculation, this breathtaking revision of history presents a mesmerizing parade of shady figures and conspiracy theories, unfolding like a classic mystery based on history's greatest unsolved crime. A technical triumph boasting Oscar-winning cinematography and editing, Stone's film is guaranteed to grab the viewer's attention with its daring take on the JFK controversy. The stellar supporting cast includes Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pesci, Jack Lemmon, Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Kevin Bacon, and Gary Oldman as Lee Harvey Oswald. --Jeff Shannon

From The New Yorker
Oliver Stone's movie means to demonstrate that the assassination of John F. Kennedy was not the act of a disturbed Marxist loner named Lee Harvey Oswald but the result of a vast, complex right-wing conspiracy. The screenplay, by Stone and Zachary Sklar, packs an extraordinary amount of assassination lore into three hours and eight minutes; it also includes a ton of speculative material about governmental misconduct and quite a few invented characters. The movie is a thick gumbo of truths, half-truths, unverifiable hypotheses, and pure rant, and Stone ladles it out indiscriminately. In essence, the conspiracy theory argued here amounts to a series of inferential leaps proceeding from a speculation (that J.F.K. was killed because he wanted to pull out of Vietnam and end the Cold War). It's all bombast and misdirection, like a courtroom summation by a lawyer who knows that he can't win on the evidence. Stone comes on like a fearless radical, but his attitude toward the audience is firmly in the Hollywood tradition: he tries to bypass the intellect and go straight for the gut. The picture has the frenzied tone of tabloid television; it plays like an endless episode of "America's Most Wanted." Its hysterical manner and its slipshod handling of the facts actually have the effect of diminishing the credibility of the case for conspiracy. The movie finally seems as muddled and as hastily thrown together as the Warren Commission Report. The clearest sounds we hear in this picture are those of Oliver Stone shooting himself in the foot. With Kevin Costner as New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, Sissy Spacek as his wife, Gary Oldman as Oswald, and an all-star cast of witnesses and conspirators: Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pesci (an abominable performance), Donald Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Jack Lemmon, Ed Asner, John Candy, Walter Matthau. Garrison himself does a brief turn as Chief Justice Warren. -Terrence Rafferty
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