Just about everyone interviewed for Stefan Forbes’s fascinating documentary about Lee Atwater—whether Democrat or Republican pols, African-American bluesmen or hardened reporters—ends anecdotes about ...

The forty-two-minute recording, acquired by James Carter IV, confirms Atwater’s incendiary remarks and places them in context. It has become, for liberals and leftists enraged by the way Republicans ...

[EDITOR’S NOTE: indieWIRE is profiling the Narrative and Documentary Competition filmmakers who are screening their films at the Los Angeles Film Festival as world premieres.] Growing up in Cambridge, ...

Lee Atwater was a Republican political consultant best known for guiding the George H.W. Bush 1988 presidential campaign. If you're too young to remember Atwater first hand, Google him. He was an ...

“We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.” The great thinker and Italian poet Cesare Pavese wrote that long ago. And while Republican ...

There’s no fun in having a character the audience is not supposed to like if it’s not written/performed to be utterly likable; sympathetic, even. That’s what you get with Seth Johnston’s portrayal of ...

On the surface, Lee Atwater, the legendary Republican campaign operative, might sound like a strange topic for a documentary in 2008. After all, Atwater died in 1991, still flush with the success of ...

A commenter notes that Rick Hertzberg had blogged about that Huckabee-Keith Richards anecdote from Rolling Stone a few days ago, and when I went to have a look I noticed that Hertzberg offers a funny ...

Adam McKay must have felt pretty good when THE OTHER GUYS knocked INCEPTION out of the top spot this weekend. As most of us know, McKay’s next project is the adaptation of Garth Ennis’ THE BOYS. While ...

The man Democrats loved to hate receives a docu portrait Republicans might chafe at in "Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story." The man Democrats loved to hate receives a docu portrait Republicans might ...

The Murrow, Polk, and IDA Award-winning documentary Boogie Man is about Lee Atwater, a blues-playing rogue whose rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP made him a political rock star. He mentored ...

In the wake of yet another hard-fought and bitter presidential campaign, FRONTLINE presents a spirited and revealing biography of Lee Atwater, the charming, Machiavellian godfather of modern, ...