[.ca] JFK (Widescreen Director's Cut) (ISBN 0790729733)

Amazon.com Essential Video:
Director Oliver Stone added 17 minutes of previously unseen footage for the "director's cut" edition of his hypnotic courtroom epic about the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963. That fateful day in Dallas set in motion a sequence of events that would only intensify the mystery behind Kennedy's death, causing New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) to begin an investigation that would gradually become a personal obsession. Bravura filmmaking combined with controversial treatment of historical facts and audacious speculation, this breathtaking revision of history presents a mesmerizing parade of shady figures and conspiracy theories, unfolding like a classic mystery based on history's greatest unsolved crime. A technical triumph boasting Oscar-winning cinematography and editing, Stone's film is guaranteed to grab the viewer's attention with its daring take on the JFK controversy. The stellar supporting cast includes Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pesci, Jack Lemmon, Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Kevin Bacon, and Gary Oldman as Lee Harvey Oswald. --Jeff Shannon

Additional Features:
This two-disc set has only one difference from the previous Special Edition Director's Cut marquee under the Oliver Stone Collection: the 1992 feature-length documentary Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy.

Who Killed JFK?,:
Who killed J.F.K.? This is the question that this film asks and it tries to answer. Using flashback images and eyewitness accounts, Oliver Stone weaves a tale that makes us believe that only one thing is certain: you have to be a complete idiot to believe that it was Lee Harvey Oswald who killed JFK. Stone throws theories at us that remain to this day mythology, and questions that may never be answered, and by the time they are answered, will anybody really care? (Ah, but perhaps that is what the CIA always wanted.)

great movie:
i dont know much details about the jfk murder. and many people love picking and choosing what to beleive or not.. my common sense tells me that even if 10% of the facts presented in the movie are true and 90% are false, the lone gunman theory is rubbish and must be discredited. maybe the actual Who and the Why is still up in the air, but nothing can make me beleive (other than proving 100% of the "facts" in the movie to be completely false) that oswald acted alone. you can love or hate garrisson or shaw or kennedy etc all you want, opinions aside, facts remain facts (if they indeed are facts). so if you want to convince anyone that oswald acted alone, dont just mention that theres many inaccuracies in the movie. im sure there are... but all it takes is 1 pure fact to prove the lone gunman theory wrong. along with any theory for that matter. anybody who can write a book about this and have the guts to call it CASE CLOSED has some nerve.. talk about arrogance. i will read that book and form my own opinion. but it better prove beyond reasonable doubt that oswald is the only murderer. i do find garrisons conspiracy a little fishy, but i do admit that there must be something fishy underneath all this.. what the government claims truly happened simply makes no sense. all in all, the movie was excellent and opened my eyes and made me want to learn more about this.

Shocking and thought provoking:
Okay, I have a little trouble with the swearing but guess people can ignore it or get a blocker. That said, this was an outstanding movie and really made you think about the unthinkable. There are coverups that most of us have no clue about.The higher ups regardless of what people may think pull many strings to get done what they want done. Those we have always sought to trust can also be the ones who betray us. War is money and I am convinced, that the murder of JFK was a well orchestrated event. Buy the DVD with the accompaining documentary. It amazes me how some people refuse to believe it. BELIEVE IT. I love America but we are no saints here. Money and power is always a driving force. Don't ever think it can't happen here. Kevin Costner gives a brilliant performance and the impassioned speech in court toward the end of the movie that he gave portraying Jim Garrison drew me in like nothing I have ever heard. Watch "Thirteen Days" first than this one and rethink the situation and see what you come up with.

Scary:
Oliver Stone's Director's Cut DVD has an extra seventeen minutes of footage added. This adds to the general suspense of the movie. JFK starts off very slow, like a History Channel documentary, and you think "Bo-ring!" But suddenly, in the whirlwind of dizzying camera shots and angles, you realize you are witnessing dark and distorted history being unearthed. By then you are so deep in, it is impossible to get out. Kevin Costner is brilliant as New Orleans D.A. William Garrison, the man who brought the only public trial to this date on the JFK assassination. A string of brilliant and well-known actors complement the film. Joe Pesci, Donald Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Sissy Spacek, John Candy, Ed Asner, Jack Lemmon, and Tommy Lee Jones give the movie so much credibility because their performances are simply so believable, and way out of the usual roles they play. In fact, this whole film represents a role the U.S. player that is far, far out of the role we usually play. The score by John Williams alternately scares the beejesus out of you, or galvanizes you to action.

Lee Harvey Oswald is Innocent!:
"I felt very emotional and very carried away for Mrs. Kennedy, that with all the strife she had gone through...that someone owed it to our beloved President that she shouldn't be expected to come back to face trial of this heinous crime." -Jack Ruby He supposedly killed Oswald because he loved our President, yet he has been proven to be a hater of the Kennedy family & has connections to the mafia! Very odd! The records of the Kennedy Assasination specifically say Kennedy was killed with a "High Velocity" rifle, but the Italian Rifle which Oswald supposedly used in the killing was NOT a High Velocity rifle!!!! It's pretty SAD that Americans actually accepted the "Official Story" of Kennedy's death. If you take a look at the Zapruder film & slow down the slides, you can actually clearly see that is was "doctored" & that some of the slides were taking out of the original film. The common people are a bunch of sheep!