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Cinema verite feature that follows presidential hopefuls John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey during the 1960 Wisconsin primary (imdb)
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Rated 20 Dec 2012
75
44th
The behind the scenes glimpses are interesting, as is the historical perspective on how these two candidates worked the primary process. Overall, though, the current media coverage overload of these matters makes most of the film's uniqueness old hat.
Rated 09 May 2013
60
31st
Pretty interesting to see what a campaign was like back then. The candidates seemed so much more open and direct, and security was so lax.
Rated 01 Aug 2013
50
27th
HAIRCUTS! GLASSES! KINDA BORING! THIS MOVIE HAS IT ALL!
Rated 13 Dec 2019
75
65th
“What the fuck is twittah” - JFK
Rated 19 May 2011
40
20th
Unless you saw this in America at the time it was produced (which, admittedly, a lot of people probably have), it just ends up being quite ... boring, doesn't it?
Rated 30 Nov 2012
6
35th
this one does not belong to cinema verité movement as it's been suggested in the summary but it is the first sync sound major documentary of american direct cinema.
Rated 19 Feb 2024
50
26th
Interesting document. Politicking has lost an awful lot of dignity, at least in the public sphere, is one observation I would make based on this alone. The candidates' respective little theme songs stand out as bizarrely antiquated.
Rated 25 May 2009
73
53rd
This documentary isn't especially robust or hard-hitting. Indeed, it's gentle, cinema verite stylings prevent it from being especially revelatory. It's accomplishment is simpler: it stands as a nifty time capsule, a moving snapshot of a time when politics, even presidential politics, was much simpler than it is now. There's a casualness to both men here, a sense that it's just two well-meaning guys both applying for the same job. Drew's camera absorbs it all.
Rated 02 Feb 2023
65
64th
Drew makes clear in his groundbreakingly intimate documentary film that while Hubert H. Humphrey was not without his charm - a friendly version of Jim W. Gettys - he was no chance against the massive force of John F. Kennedy's charismatic authority. However, J.F.K. stills appears as a 'dead man walking', knowing what we do about November 22, 1963. Jacqueline Kennedy has never looked more angelic, a stark contrast to what was to come three years later.

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