DVD Review: Death of a President

Posted by on Jul 18, 2007 in DVD Review | 0 comments

Before he made Death of a President, director Garbriel Range directed a faux documentary about a transportation stoppage in London. That film, The Day Brittan Stopped, was a proactive what-if scenario based on a premise so utterly uninteresting the film hasn’t even been released on DVD. You can stream the film on the BBC Web site, which is how I saw Range’s uncontroversial transportation documentary. Considering just how interesting and engaging a film about cars stuck on a highway was, there was hope the more inflammatory topic of Bush’s assassination would make an even better film. It didn’t. Death of a President is a documentary filmed in 2008 about the imaginary Oct. 19, 2007 assassination of President is too easy of an indictment of U.S. foreign and domestic policy, one any person watching the news could have made. It...

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