Just in case Richard M. Nixon was not doing enough documenting of his own presidency (with the occasional gap in the archives), his confidants H. R. Haldeman, John Erlichman and Dwight Chapin were also filming him, his family and his White House using Super 8 cameras. Now this footage has been used to create a new documentary that will be shown as the closing night feature of New Directors/New Films, the annual series presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art, those organizations said Friday.
The documentary, called “Our Nixon,†is directed by Penny Lane and draws from hundreds of rolls of film footage (as well as Nixon’s notorious audio recordings and news footage of the day) to chronicle his presidency as well as events like his visit to China; the Apollo moon landing; and Tricia Nixon’s wedding at the White Houe. “Our Nixon†will be shown on March 31 at the Walter Reade Theater.
The New Directors/New Films series will open on March 20 with “Blue Caprice,†the debut feature from Alexandre Moors. This fiction film stars Isaiah Washington and Tequan Richmond as two snipers who go on a shooting spree from their beat-up Chevrolet Caprice car.
