My wife and I saw Best of Enemies on Sunday. It’s a documentary of the historic debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley at the 1968 Presidential conventions.
Well, debates is probably incorrect - these were arguments that almost turned violent.
We both thought the film was well-made, and was a sad reminder of how uneducated our current crop of TV pundits are. No matter what you thought of these guys, they sure knew how to talk.
I saw it at SXSW and loved it. I thought it was hilarious and fascinating.
It is a sad reminder about how bad the current TV pundits are, but also it seemed to somewhat trace the rise of the TV pundits to the Vidal and Buckley debates. But I guess the TV networks learned the wrong lessons; instead of having two intelligent people discuss things, it’s having semi-educated people yell at each other.