More from Steven Zeitchik
TIFF: Anti-Netanyahu Film Premiere Goes Forward in Toronto After Court Motion Fails
After facing a failed attempt by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to block their world-premiere screening, the filmmakers behind the anti-Netanyahu documentary The Bibi Files carried on Monday night debuting their work at the Toronto International Film Festival with a mix of grim resolve and giddy triumph. Alexis Bloom’s film, which builds its case against […]
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Could Two New Docs Subtly Change the Presidential Election?
Adam Kinzinger had turned down more than a dozen requests to make a documentary. Then the director of Hot Tub Time Machine walked in. The Illinois Republican congressman who famously — and largely solitarily — turned on Donald Trump after Jan. 6 was reluctant to participate in a movie that focused on his fading hopes to retain his seat. But Steve […]
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DNC Executive Producer: Even My Staff Believed Beyoncé Was Coming
Live-show veterans Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss just came off a very strongly rated Democratic National Convention — more than 26 million people tuned in Thursday night to watch Vice President Kamala Harris accept the presidential nomination. The Emmy-decorated pair (Kirshner executive produced; Weiss directed) fashioned a four-day event marked by both flash and substance. Though the DNC veterans […]
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Kamala Harris Is Campaigning as a Prosecutor. Popular Entertainment Has Long Favored Their Antagonist.
As she accepted the Democratic nomination Thursday night, Kamala Harris played up her attorney-general past. “As a prosecutor, when I had a case, I charged it not in the name of the victim, but in the name of the people,” she told the United Center crowd. This follows a strategy she has pursued since ramping up […]
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Dawn Porter’s Biden Film Among the Cuts at DNC Night One
The first night of the DNC in Chicago had an Academy Awards feel — right down to the overruns and snubs. On a night when Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, AOC and others brought the United Center crowd to its feet with rousing podium speeches — and Kamala Harris made a raucously received surprise appearance — […]
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In Trump vs. Harris, It’s Reality-TV Ringleading vs. the TikTok Ticket
The defining moment of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate to date — the one that birthed all the others — was a ride down an escalator in a tower he developed during a TV appearance he stage-managed to build on an empire of wish fulfillment he created. The defining moment of Kamala Harris as […]
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