Report (1967)

6.1/10 • 13 min • Documentary

Overview

Bruce Conner’s most celebrated film for a reason: it takes historical moments that were replayed over and over on television—chilling repetition of Kennedy assassination coverage—and repurposes them into a meditation on how the media tries to exert authority and apply a sense of order to the anarchic. And though it may sound perverse to say so, the film is also—not incidentally—a thrill to watch. -- The A.V. Club

Cast

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Jacqueline Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

John Connally

Self (archive footage)

Lee Harvey Oswald

Self (archive footage)

Colin Clive

Henry Frankenstein (archive footage - Bride of Frankenstein (1935))

Ernest Thesiger

Doctor Pretorius (archive footage - Bride of Frankenstein (1935))

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