Best Of Enemies - Official Trailer

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2 Men. 10 Debates. Television would never be the same.
Watch the trailer for Best of Enemies featuring the explosive debates between liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Available in theatres July 10th from Magnolia Pictures: www.magpictures.com/bestofenemies

[@jonsklaessens9126]

I adore this documentary. I am on the progressive side of the political spectrum, but I did not find myself agreeing or disagreeing with Buckley or Vidal, I was just extremely entertained by their wordplay and insults at each other. Even though this is a highly political film, I always try to put that aside while watching it, and just let myself get hypnotised by two masters of debating.

[@robkeaton6143]

My god that is one brilliantly edited trailer!

[@nocountry4oldfreeman]

+Rob Keaton And the movie's just as good.

[@bradley5210]

Nah trailer's better. The movie is good though.

[@richardsantanna5398]

@@bradley5210 The trailer is better than the movie? Lol

[@bradley5210]

@Richard Santanna It's common shorthand for "The trailer makes the movie look better than the movie actually is". It's not like I'd like to watch the trailer on repeat for 88 minutes. Didn't realise I needed to spell it out for you. Lol

[@nevincaulfield]

Movies much much better... Watched it more times than the trailer

[@kareninacarado]

Just watched the play inspired by this documentary! It’s also titled Best of Enemies, performed at the Young Vic theatre in London, and with livestream broadcasts.

[@dbarnes996]

My two idols, Christopher Hitchens and Paul Newman in one trailer?? Yes!

[@nocountry4oldfreeman]

I can't believe this didn't land an Oscar nomination. It's a fantastic doc.

[@achilleshoplite]

HITCHENS! WOOO! When they showed this trailer at my art house I jumped out of my chair! Like HOLY CRAP! After these years he is still making appearances! HEHE! LOVE IT! How many of you read the part in HITCH 22 where he talks about Vidal's sexual exploits?

[@sybo59]

achilleshoplite He also appeared in the recent Vidal documentary. I had a similar reaction to you, also in an art house.

[@roughhabit9085]

And you would never had heard of him if Buckley hadn’t given him a gig on his show.

[@lalumia]

watched this on a Netflix DVD last nite; amazing!! the birth of modern commentary tv.. I remeber when this actually happened,and then forgot about it..till now..

[@OTsuperduper]

Very well edited. Good job!

[@uyh110]

Brilliant idea! Can't wait to see it in Chicago!

[@johncarvalho3621]

Saw the originals. Can't wait to see it all again.

[@TheColossusofRhodes]

+John Carvalho Me, too. Buckley owned Vidal.

[@tjfreak]

It's interesting to see what laid some of the groundwork for whats going on today like in this.I thought identity politics was in the last 20 or so..once again pretty much the same issues several decades later…If I could step back in time I'm positive I'd see my dad watching this...

[@JOHNROCKZ10]

Very well crafted documentary.

[@eraguilar]

Omg I want the DVD 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@arnizach]

Looks amazing!

[@amandali2817]

2:06 Woorrrld Staaaarrr!!!

[@tijojose7966]

I can't find a theater in the Chicago area that shows this film.

[@matthiasselisky4847]

Looks very interesting indeed. Can't wait to see it. Does anybody know the name of the violin piece that starts at 1:16?

[@kristiantoimil]

I believe it's original music written by cellist Jonathan Kirkscey for the film www.jonathankirkscey.com/audio

[@am__-tr4ki]

Really good

[@adamzanzie]

Robin Williams based one of his Genie impressions off William F. Buckley.

[@ExistentialWill]

+adamzanzie Brilliant! Haha!

[@shelbyherring92]

"Master, there's a few provisos, a few addendas... quid pro quos" The one thing Robin really dialed into was the fact Buckley often overused and misused Latin and French phrases to make himself seem smarter... That's why he (Buckley) hated people like Vidal and Chomsky, because they wanted to cut the BS, just say the damn point.

[@joansanchez2440]

increible!!

[@oskytel3780]

Fascinating, must see.

[@adman1381]

Wonder what Vidal and Buckley would say about today's politics.

[@amandali2817]

+Adam Langfelder they just died like a week ago....

[@raspbeari1]

he was just like my granny ...we loved him!

[@romee4722]

Wow! This description fits both of them: civilized, dignified, intelligent, gentlemanly, erudite, super classy, and beautifully spoken. Both extremely well-bred with patrician backgrounds. And the two of them SO handsome!! I'm going to call it what it is: if they looked like Gene Simmons or Steven Tyler, it simply wouldn't have had the same effect! ;)

[@battleburger]

Whar are the musical compositions used?

[@superbigsis]

what is the music in the background?

[@TheStockwell]

A genuinely brilliant film, no matter what your politics are.

[@marshalmasters3933]

Reminds me of the Southpark episode in which Satan fights Christ.

[@redvalleyjohn]

MY RATING - 8 out of 10 Best of Enemies is a fascinating documentary film about a series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. If that doesn't sound very interesting you couldn't be more wrong. This is a film about two men who absolutely hated each other. Two extremely clever men who fought each other live on television by debating with each that eventually led to personal insults being thrown at each other and it's mesmerising viewing. I have to admit I had never heard of these men before and that's probably because these debates happened a couple of months before I was born but I do know now and I feel much better off for it.

[@JoshuaTaylorLong]

Hitchens!

[@hnrbdrh]

Does anyone know who said the last line of the film (before the TV shuts off)? It's extremely poignant and shouldn't be kept as anonymous!

[@jeffreyc.mcandrew8911]

Looks very good. They were truly intellectual Wordsmiths.

[@barryharris1622]

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[@jeffreyc.mcandrew8911]

What does that mean?

[@mohdhafis8085]

Who's looking for the best of enemies feat. Robbie & Ex 😂

[@drawesome986]

anyone know the song from this trailer?

[@kristiantoimil]

I believe it's original music written by cellist Jonathan Kirkscey for the film www.jonathankirkscey.com/audio

[@2bitgirly007]

Although I can't say I'd subscribed in totality to either man's vision for America, Buckley has always struck me as the better debater. Vidal was witty but his style was just all over the place. And maybe I'm just picky but a truly brilliant rhetorician wouldn't need to rehearse his droll quips in front of a press conference or keep a transcript of them at the ready. Unfortunate temper loss aside, Buckley will always be the better man of this debate imo.

[@BuckarooSamurai]

Yay, the birth of punditry.

[@neilghosh3821]

christopher hitchens!

[@suzinnebarrett9517]

Lived through these years and my parents were right wing extremists who voted for Nixon twice. But cannot wait to see this when it premiers on November 28, 2015 on NETFLIX.

[@TheColossusofRhodes]

+Suzinne Barrett Can you define right wing extremist for us?

[@suzinnebarrett9517]

+Kyle Right wing extremist - William F. Buckley.

[@TheColossusofRhodes]

+Suzinne Barrett Circular reasoning fallacy.

[@suzinnebarrett9517]

oh screw you

[@suzinnebarrett9517]

am team GORE

[@raduoctaviancraciun5694]

Am prins un film mare!

[@raspbeari1]

i love gore vidal..i took him too :)

[@gloriacat]

To crixxx or whatever your name is; Gore Vidal was of the elite, but he was not an elitist or snob.

[@Elise__Mae]

gloriacat Gore was quite the populist, actually. The only thing the two had in common was an intellectual background --- which, apparently, we will no longer tolerate in the USA's media figures. Who are our public intellectuals now? Neil DeGrasse Tyson? (Love him and his work, but he has too little company).

[@abcffgmnfgqraadw]

NDT is nothing more than a corporate stooge pushing politics based science on a public that's too stupid to think critically about anything anymore. He's nothing more than a televangelist oaf for the secular religion of world corporatism.

[@ronthorn3]

+menckencynic Looks like you play Call of Duty, you must read tons of literature.

[@catherinen8547]

Mr Hitchens

[@stephenjoiner882]

A young and handsome Sam Donaldson. Wow!

[@jjmalone1966]

Vidal was the better writer of the two but both seemed pretty hamstrung by the limits of their respective ideologies. (during the debates)

[@usandmexico]

I know Buckley was Roman Catholic, so I am confused by him saying G-d. Is that acceptable speech for a Roman Catholic? I get the sense so since I think he repeats it in a calmer instance. Among more traditional Protestants, that is offensive and considered an act of using God's name in vain (a violation of one of the 10 commandments).

[@battleburger]

Thats because protestants aren't as rigorous in their study of scipture. The faithful meaning of commandment is to not presume to speak in the Lord's name. Its an innocent enough mistake in the same way people misunderstand killing and coveting.

[@largocorto3188]

It seems like they started what is Fox news and Co in the US. What I got from this doc is that my definition of fine intellectual is different from that of the mainstream. I thought the greatest intellectuals are those who would understand the facts in a very practical manner,not the one who is best at rhetoric or exploiting straw man fallacies

[@zuzusuperfly8363]

+Largo Corto What member of mainstream media said, "An intellectual is one who is best at rhetoric or exploiting straw man fallacies."?

[@largocorto3188]

Zuzu Superfly this documentary just shows how popular their superficial arguments were.

[@zuzusuperfly8363]

Largo Corto Considering that if no member of mainstream media said the quote I'm asking about you'd be guilty of a straw man, I'm really interested in knowing the answer to my original question.

[@largocorto3188]

Zuzu Superfly read my statement again and tell me where I said it was a quote. Please disprove me right now!I am so eager. I gave an opinion(I clearly wrote"I thought"). This opinion is based on ABC News having them discussed politics and the public reaction. Many people watched that show and that show has changed how politics is televised.(Hence me saying it started Fox News and Co). But somehow,you want a quote! Did I mention a quote? And you have the nerves to say that I am the one pulling out a straw man. If you want to debate someone,focus on what he says. But if your only wish is to win a debate,then you can pull out a straw man fallacy like the "quote argument" you are trying to forcefully insert in this debate. Is what I said incorrect? Prove me wrong. Generally, arguments that are questions are just straw man fallacies. You didn't even address a single point I talked about.You just asked a question.But unfortunately for you,Your question is irrelevant to my post b/c you I never even suggested there was a quote. Just make your counter argument. I don't have time for fishermen who lay their question to catch straw men

[@zuzusuperfly8363]

Largo Corto You wrote 25 lines assuming I cared for a direct quote, despite it being your words and clearly nobody else's. "What I got from this doc is that my definition of fine intellectual is different from that of the mainstream." Followed immediately by "I thought the greatest intellectuals are those who would understand the facts in a very practical manner,not the one who is best at rhetoric or exploiting straw man fallacies." Okay, who thought the latter? At this point you either demonstrate it belongs to the mainstream news or you just say, "oh I didn't mean anyone in particular thought that". It's your choice. Either commit to the position that you authored an absolutely ridiculous definition of "greatest intellectual" for absolutely no reason at all, or prove to me you didn't produce a straw man fallacy by showing me exactly who defined greatest intellectual that way. Don't waste my time with anything else.

[@IurySalkRezende]

Gore Vidal is a real genius.

[@johnisaacfelipe6357]

gore vidal is a real idiot. Doesn't even accept the fact that freedom breeds inequality.

[@jointy33]

where is the difference to today?

[@walperstyle]

Freedom Breeds in Equal opportunity, not equality. Huge difference between starving a nation under socialism, and being free. We are socialist in Canada, America, don't vote for Bernie (and no, not trump either)

[@astralprojection6180]

+walperstyle then who

[@walperstyle]

Astral Projection Not Trump, not Clinton. Watch the video "The Life and Thought of Friedrich Hayek". Tell me what you think of that, and then I'll tell you who you should vote for.

[@alexanderwillis9473]

+walperstyle I thought America was a fascist Corporatation's "dictatorship" wielding a series of puppets on strings before the masses ? USA, more Fascist than the Nazi's ever were.

[@walperstyle]

Nazi's started off as National Socialists. Good intentions, democratically elected, then imposed a bunch of laws regulating people for the 'good of the nation'. Those that didn't agree were removed. The same thing is happening today, the same elite want power, and they are using everything including 'good intentions' to get there. Climate Change, Social issues, hell, they are even killing free speech under 'bullying'. Beware of the state.

[@michaelrodriguezjr6950]

i do not have much of an opinion on the canidates. can you help me understand why?

[@ShubhamBhushanCC]

Gore Vidal was a god level troll... Seriously the man took no shit from no one

[@suzinnebarrett9517]

Team Gore all the way!

[@RAMSEY1987]

I used to be on the left...then I grew up.

[@mrconcept]

Stop using Hitchens name for publicity.

[@jesserodolfo]

At least homophobia was still the Conservative way back then too. Consistency is comforting.

[@abcffgmnfgqraadw]

Ya how dare people not look at the prolapsed rectum as a virtuous attribute! America. Land of the cuckold cream pie and the rectal prolapse.

[@googleyeyed5814]

+CYW Smith troll

[@HGRvSBG]

He called him a crypto nazi... Calling someone a nazi back then was fighting words, he got what he deserved.

[@CatnamedMittens]

At Least liberals calling conservatives nazi was still the liberal way back then too. Consistency is comforting.

[@dangerwil8526]

William F. Buckley believed in the sky wizard and segregation. Says it all really...