Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1972 • United States
Though director Emile de Antonio was best known for his caustic political documentaries, he was also deeply immersed in the art world, a connection that led him to make the definitive look at the New York School of painters from 1940 to 1970. Having forged friendships with many of the leading artists of the midcentury, de Antonio interviews them in their studios, capturing the cutting edge of movements ranging from abstract expressionism to hard edge and color field to pop art. Among the featured painters are Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Barnett Newman, Hans Hofmann, Jules Olitski, Philip Pavia, Larry Poons, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, and Andy Warhol, who famously said, “Everything I learned about painting, I learned from De.”
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Rush to Judgment
Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1967 • United States
This bombshell documentary presents a simple, concise legal argument that the Warren Commission was hiding something and that Lee Harvey Oswald could not have single-handedly killed President John F. Kennedy. Director Emile de Antonio and lawye...
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Millhouse
Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1971 • United States
Emile de Antonio’s portrait of Richard Nixon deconstructs the controversial American president without editorializing, instead deploying archival footage—newsreels, speeches, interviews—to paint a damning picture of the man via his own words. S...
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In the Year of the Pig
Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1968 • United States
The first major documentary made about the Vietnam War remains a landmark work of political cinema and one of the most powerful antiwar statements ever committed to film. Juxtaposing interviews with newsreel and archival footage edited for maxi...
