Director
Oliver Stone
Composer
John Williams
Cast
Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe
Edition 2024
192'
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1995
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Drama, Biography
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Format:
35mm
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Dialogue:
Russian, Mandarin, English
Oliver Stone is arguably America's greatest chronicler. With Nixon, he presents a surprisingly nuanced and empathetic portrait of Tricky Dicky and weaves it into an epic associative biopic. A magnificent Anthony Hopkins interprets the least loved of all US presidents as a quasi Shakespearian villain.
Oliver Stone's most complex and intriguing film is an epic anti-docudrama about the hated 37th US president. Stone looks at Nixon's life (a tour de force performance by Anthony Hopkins) as a Shakespearean drama and the White House as a haunted castle in which Nixon is at the mercy of his demons and haunted by the shadow of John F. Kennedy in the last phase of his tenure. According to CIA man Howard Hunt (Ed Harris), a key figure in the Watergate scandal that brought down Tricky Dicky, his boss is "the darkness reaching for the darkness." Which gives a good idea of the (auto)destructive forces Nixon struggled with. In his book The Presidents, Freddy Gray quotes Marx's slogan that "history repeats itself, first as a tragedy, then as a farce." Nixon is the tragedy; Trump the farce.
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Credits
Directors
Oliver Stone
Composers
John Williams
Cast
Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe
Scenario
Oliver Stone, Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson
Director of Photography
Robert Richardson
Editors
Brian Berdan, Hank Corwin
Producers
Oliver Stone, Clayton Townsend, Andrew G. Vajna
Production studios
Hollywood Pictures
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Dialogue
Russian, Mandarin, English
Countries of production
United States of America
Year
1995
Filmography
Oliver Stone
Seizure (1974), The Hand (1981), Salvador (1986), Platoon (1986), Wall Street (1987), Talk Radio (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), The Doors (1991), JFK (1991), Heaven & earth (1993), Natural Born Killers (1994), Nixon (1995), U Turn (1997), Any given Sunday (1999), Comendante (2003), Alexander (2004), World Trade Center (2006), W. (2008), South of The Border (2009), Wall Styreet: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Savages (2012), Snowaden (2016), JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021), Nuclear Now (2022), Lula (2024)
Technical Specs
Format
35mm
