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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Eugene Jarecki’s Reagan

Tea Party movement folk and documentary films fans alike will want to watch out for this portrait on a U.S president whose legacy can unfortunately be felt until this day. From a diligent docu-helmer in Eugene Jarecki (whose track record of The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002) and Why We Fight (2005) we can expect an all-encompassing, no one side favored viewpoint and something that will surely be timely in 2011.

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#72. Reagan

Director: Eugene Jarecki
Producers: Kathleen Fournier
Distributor: Rights Available.

The Gist: There’s no official synopsis but the fest mentions that “Jarecki avoids the predictable and takes the long view on Reagan’s life and influence, while staying centered on him as a man of deep contradiction; an American whose patriotism paradoxically led him to impeachable acts, a liberal Democrat who came to define the modern conservative movement”.….(more)

List Worthy Reasons…Tea Party movement folk and documentary films fans alike will want to watch out for this portrait on a U.S president whose legacy can unfortunately be felt until this day. From a diligent docu-helmer in Eugene Jarecki (whose track record of The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002) and Why We Fight (2005) we can expect an all-encompassing, no one side favored viewpoint and something that will surely be timely in 2011. I wish there were more docs on this list. 

Release Date/Status?: This receives a world premiere showing at Sundance and I expect a festival pick-up probably within hours of its showing and a theatrical release sometime this year.

 
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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).

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