RUSH TO JUDGMENT
Wednesday, November 22
6:00
Introduced by Dan Streible, associate professor of cinema studies at NYU and co-author of Emile de Antonio: A Reader.
COMMEMORATING THE 60th ANNIVERSARY OF THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION (Nov. 22, 1963).
U.S., 1966
Directed by Emile de Antonio
Based on the book by Mark Lane
Approx. 124 min. DCP.
On the 60th anniversary of JFK’s assassination, director Emile de Antonio and author Mark Lane’s first-hand interviews with witnesses to the murder, presenting a concise legal argument that the Warren Commission was hiding something.
Digital restoration by the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Sphinx Productions.
Reviews
“RUSH TO JUDGMENT is sober and unexcited, making its points with quiet and controlled definiteness, sans hysterics or frenzied accusations. Lane and collaborator Emile de Antonio have let their material present itself, utilizing wryness as their main weapon to sow seeds of doubt.”
– Variety Magazine