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2012 Sundance Predictions: Penny Lane and Brian Frye’s Our Nixon

I’m curious to see what they’ve found and I’m more curious in seeing how married filmmaking couple journo Brian L. Frye and art prof Penny Lane pieced together a treasure trove of Super 8 home movies filmed by Nixon’s closest aides (view trailer). Currently in post, the Cinereach supported, Kickstarter helped Our Nixon appears to be a paean to a small snippet of an era (1969-1972) that could play in anything from the Frontier section to the Spotlight Docs section to the fest U.S Doc Comp.

Eric Lavallée

Published on November 11, 2011

#45. Our Nixon – Penny Lane and Brian Frye

I’m curious to see what they’ve found and I’m more curious in seeing how married filmmaking couple journo Brian L. Frye and art prof Penny Lane pieced together a treasure trove of Super 8 home movies filmed by Nixon’s closest aides (view trailer). Currently in post, the Cinereach supported, Kickstarter helped Our Nixon appears to be a paean to a small snippet of an era (1969-1972) that could play in anything from the Frontier section to the Spotlight Docs section to the fest U.S Doc Comp. If it does get included I want dibs on the Tricky Dick electoral pins.

Gist: Everyone knows that during the Watergate investigation, the FBI confiscated more than 3700 hours of Nixon’s secret tape recordings. But the FBI also confiscated 204 reels of Super-8 film. The confiscated films were home movies made by Chief of Staff H.R. “Bob” Haldeman, Chief Domestic Advisor John Ehrlichman and Special Assistant to the President Dwight Chapin. Everyone knows about the secret tapes because they forced Nixon to resign.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).