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Oswald's Ghost

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Documentary

Written by: Robert Stone

Directed by: Robert Stone

Release Date:
Theatrical: November 30, 2007
DVD: January 15, 2008

Running Time: 90 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

A decade after JFK's assassination, America's political culture was changed almost beyond recognition. With Oswald's Ghost, acclaimed director Robert Stone offers an unprecedented deconstruction of the mythologies and controversy surrounding what is perhaps the most tangled and far reaching murder mystery of all time. Featuring interviews with Norman Mailer, Gary Hart, Tom Hayden, Mark Lane and others, the film probes the deep psychic wounds inflicted by the Kennedy assassination on American politics and culture, the scars of which remain evident to this day. Using a wealth of archival material, much of it never before seen or heard, Oswald's Ghost chronicles America's 40-year obsession with the single most pivotal event of the boomer generation. (Seventh Art Releasing)

What The Critics Said

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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

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.

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75

TV Guide Ken Fox

Veteran conspiracy buffs probably won’t find much of Stone's material particularly new, but Stone’s film does serve as a neat summary for the rest of us while offering a number of intriguing insights into how conspiracy theories work and what they say about specific cultural and political climates.

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75

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Though we had just heard the name Lee Harvey Oswald, I believed he had done it alone. I still do, even more so after watching Robert Stone's meticulously researched, seemingly unbiased summary of the killing and the major conspiracy theories.

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70

Variety Joe Leydon

Oswald's Ghost impresses as a concise, intelligent and rigorously well-researched piece of work.

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67

The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray

Late in the film, Stone interviews Norman Mailer, a one-time conspiracy-believer who eventually wrote a book that tried to get inside Oswald's head, explaining how Oswald's story is America's story. In less than a minute, Mailer describes the documentary Stone should've made.

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60

The New York Times Matt Zoller Seitz

The documentary Oswald’s Ghost initially plays as yet another primer on the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the vilification of Lee Harvey Oswald.

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60

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

Lee Harvey Oswald's guilt or innocence or accomplices are not the point of the film; Stone is more interested in the fact that much about the Kennedy murder is now so shrouded in myth and mystification as to be permanently unknowable, and that that fact alone has gnawed away at the self-confidence of middle-class white America ever since.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Leba Hertz

While trying to establish whether a conspiracy took place, the film attempts to solve the enigma that was Lee Harvey Oswald.

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50

Village Voice Michael Fox

Riveting yet ultimately unsatisfying documentary.

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50

New York Post V.A. Musetto

As a history lesson, Oswald's Ghost is valuable, but don't go expecting any new revelations.

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50

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

Never really decides whether it wants to concentrate on providing information or sociological analysis, with the result that it fails to fully satisfy on either level.

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50

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Stone covers territory all too familiar to most Americans old enough to remember the JFK assassination.

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40

Film Threat Phil Hall

The only obvious question that Oswald’s Ghost raises is: how come Mort Sahl wasn’t in the movie? (If you don’t get that joke, you need to brush up on your Kennedy conspiracy lessons.)

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What Our Users Said

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