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I’ve noticed of late that you’re either a huge Gore Vidal fan or you’re not. His politics, biting social commentary endless books and film criticism seems to excite and invigorate or leave one cold. Either way this new documentary ‘Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia‘ by director Nicholas Wrathall that encompasses Vidal’s professional life of more than 50 years is intoxicating no matter what your politics/beliefs.

The film features one-on-one interviews with Gore himself as well as Christopher Hitchens, Tim Robbins, Mikhail Gorbachev, Sting, David Mamet and Norman Mailer, just to name a few. As the press notes so succinctly state “No twentieth century figure has had a more profound effect on the worlds of literature, film, politics, historical debate and the culture wars than Gore Vidal…the last lion of the age of American liberalism.” AND if you didn’t already know he was gay! Enough said, go see this film and and get schooled on all things Vidal, in the very best of ways.

Multiples times at IFC Center and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.