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    Secret Honor (1984) [The Criterion Collection #257] [ReUp]

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    Date: 14 Jan 2015 12:12:00
    Secret Honor (1984) [The Criterion Collection #257] [ReUp]

    Secret Honor (1984)
    DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | Cover | 01:30:29 | 7,73 Gb
    Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English SDH
    Genre: Drama | The Criterion Collection #257

    Director: Robert Altman
    Stars: Philip Baker Hall

    Sequestered in his home, a disgraced President Richard Milhous Nixon arms himself with a bottle of scotch and a gun to record memoirs that no one will hear. He is surrounded by the silent portraits of Lincoln, Eisenhower, Kissinger, and his mother, as he resurrects his past in a passionate attempt to defend himself and his political legacy. Based on the original play by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, and starring Philip Baker Hall in a tour de force solo performance, Robert Altman’s Secret Honor is a searing interrogation of the Nixon mystique and an audacious depiction of unchecked paranoia.

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    Alone in his study late at night, Richard Milhouse Nixon ponders the pardon he's been offered for the Watergate scandal, and contrasts his secret honour with his public shame. Cue for raving resentment galore and perceptive insights into the politics of power and money. Made with a student crew at the University of Michigan, Altman's one-man theatrical adaptation, for all its dense verbosity, is resolutely cinematic, employing a prowling camera to illuminate the dark areas of its melancholy, megalomaniac hero's soul. While Baker Hall, ranting with drunken fervour at presidential portraits and a bank of security videos, suggests nothing less than a sometimes lucid, sometimes lunatic incarnation of mediocrity, irredeemably tainted by fame and failure. Fascinating stuff.
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    Secret Honor (1984) [The Criterion Collection #257] [ReUp]

    Director Robert Altman was at a low career mark when he did this 16mm feature far away from the Hollywood studios that had nurtured him through the previous decade. Altman was always one to go his own way, and in 1983's Secret Honor his proclivity for commercially iffy material got a full workout. The film is a cleverly conceived film version of a one-act, one-actor play that all takes place in one room in real time. Best known for his Paul Thomas Anderson movies, Philip Baker Hall seems to inhabit the soul of Richard M. Nixon, portrayed as a frustrated, suicidal President-in-exile.

    Secret Honor (1984) [The Criterion Collection #257] [ReUp]

    The filmed play unfolds in Nixon's office in his New Jersey home where he dictates a vindictive last will and testament into a tape recorder, pausing frequently to instruct his unseen assistant to erase huge portions of his ramblings. Drunk, furious and foolhardy, Nixon goes over his life and career in painful detail. The picture he paints is a man completely without scruples, an opportunist who sold out even before he began. Surrounded by pictures of Presidents and famous associates, he has venomous words for them all, especially Eisenhower ("He once introduced me as Nick Dixon!"). He practically foams at the mouth while cursing Henry Kissinger, a "backstabbing whoremonger" given the Nobel Peace prize while Nixon was dubbed the Mad Bomber of Cambodia.

    Secret Honor (1984) [The Criterion Collection #257] [ReUp]

    Nixon thrashes about like a caged animal, drinking, swearing and letting loose a tirade of invectives at his invisible tormentors, but mostly at history itself. He still has nothing but awe for the cadre of political kingmakers who plucked him from nowhere to run for public office. These business interests used Nixon as a puppet, 'forcing' him to pull dirty tricks on his political opponents. From the very beginning he sees politics as a one huge crooked racket and himself as its tool, but he also insists on a parallel fantasy in which he shines as a great leader and a great American.

    Secret Honor (1984) [The Criterion Collection #257] [ReUp]

    Philip Baker Hall's performance can't be praised highly enough. He's in control throughout, with nothing to bounce off of except himself; Nixon's fevered testimony is the kind of paranoid raving in which a single thought seldom finishes before another leaps into his mouth. He leaps from subject to subject like a madman with a completely subjective view of history. Instead of thanking his lucky stars that the Bay of Pigs fiasco happened while Kennedy was in office, he's upset that he didn't get to oversee the operation he planned for Eisenhower. "I would have bombed Castro," he rails, furious that his dire need to do something dramatic was thwarted.

    Secret Honor (1984) [The Criterion Collection #257] [ReUp]

    All the while, he plays to the silent audience of his B&W security monitors, slipping in and out of a bitter rage. At one moment he's clutching his mother's bible with loving devotion, and the next he's pounding it and cursing yet another unjust persecution. All of his tirades lead up to an incoherent rationalization for Watergate and his exit from office; he goes straight from vague conspiracy theories to expressions of his unconquerable righteousness without ever facing up to the facts. A major loose cannon, Nixon's so far gone that the last will he is taping is more an inadvertent confession than anything that might vindicate him. It's a great play with a riveting central performance.

    I don't think we'll see Secret Honor playing at the Nixon library any time soon.
    DVD Savant
    Secret Honor (1984) [The Criterion Collection #257] [ReUp]

    Disc Features:
    - New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound
    - Audio commentaries with director Robert Altman and co-writer Donald Freed
    - New 22-minute video interview with actor Philip Baker Hall
    - Eighty-one minutes of archival-film excerpts from the political career of President Richard M. Nixon
    - English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
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