Word: docudrama
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...commingle real news footage with re-created historical scenes. Do you consider the film a docudrama, a work of fact or fiction...
Stone uses a suspect, mongrel art form, and JFK raises the familiar ethical and historical problems of docudrama. But so what? Artists have always used public events as raw material, have taken history into their imaginations and transformed it. The fall of Troy vanished into the Iliad. The Battle of % Borodino found its most memorable permanence in Tolstoy's imagining of it in War and Peace...
IRAN: DAYS OF CRISIS (TNT, Sept. 30, Oct. 1, 8 p.m. EDT). The crisis before last -- or was it the one before that? An earnest but uninspired docudrama about the events that led up to and followed the Khomeini revolution and the taking of American hostages...
...wants -- in slick magazines. New York, People, Vanity Fair, she's done them all in the past month. And what has she done to earn this cover coverage? She overexposed herself (nothing new there). She took Michael Jackson to the Oscars (Stop the presses!). And she put together a docudrama of her 1990 Blond Ambition concert tour...
Accordingly, Klinghoffer is no docudrama but rather a stylized, subtle, Rashomon-like retelling of the tragedy. It takes no prisoners, and takes no sides either. On Sellars' voyage, confusion is captain, and perspectives shift like ocean waves. Along with Leon Klinghoffer, truth becomes a casualty. The director has clad the entire cast in anonymous street clothes, and many roles are doubled -- now friend, now foe -- and who can tell the difference...