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A KILLER DOC Robert Stone assembles a fascinating look at Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK assassination in Oswald's Ghost
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Limited Release: Nov 30, 2007; Rated: Unrated; Length: 83 Minutes; Genre: Documentary
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By Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

Robert Stone, the director of Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, has become one of our most important documentarians — a filmmaker who reclaims history. In Oswald's Ghost, his vast chronicle of the JFK assassination and its cultural aftermath, Stone uses little-seen footage to assemble the events of Nov. 22, 1963, with a fascinating present-tense density. He then enters the vortex of conspiracy theory, only to free us from its dark tangle. Figures like the anti-lone-gunman buff Mark Lane have their say, but the movie's bard is Norman Mailer, whose dissection of Lee Harvey Oswald is more chilling than any conspiracy. A


Posted Dec 05, 2007
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