To Iran, He’s Just Another Devil
Jul 3, 2007 Plans by director Oliver Stone (pictured) to make a film focusing on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have met with opposition from the Iranian government, which, according to a spokesperson, considers Stone's movies to be "part of the 'Great Satan.' "MoveOn.org Interviews Stone, Kovic in VideoVets Project
May 7, 2007 Director Oliver Stone's commercial for MoveOn.org and VideoVets.org, featuring Iraq war veteran John Bruhns, airs on CNN until Thursday. To commemorate the ad and its subject, MoveOn.org assembled an array of videos featuring Stone (above) and Vietnam vet Ron Kovic, Bruhns and the others interviewed in the project.
Stone Shoots Ad Supporting U.S. Troop Withdrawal
May 5, 2007 Director Oliver Stone has announced the winning entry, chosen by voting members of MoveOn.org, from a series of videotaped interviews with Iraq war veterans and their families. Stone has cut the interview with former infantry Sgt. John Bruhns into a 30-second TV spot, ending with a voice-over by Vietnam vet Ron Kovic saying: "Support our troops. Bring them home."
Stone, MoveOn.org Join Forces
Apr 20, 2007 Director Oliver Stone is teaming up with MoveOn.org and VoteVets.org for a project called "VideoVets: Bring Our Troops Home." Viewers can vote at MoveOn's site to pick the winning entry from a series of more than 20 videotaped interviews of veterans and family members speaking out about the U.S. policy in Iraq. Stone will make the top entry into a 30-second TV spot.
Oliver Stone on the Future of Political Cinema
Feb 18, 2007 In a video interview with Counterpunch magazine, the legendary filmmaker discusses the power of movies to engender social change on a grass-roots level. (Fellow director Tao Ruspoli conducts this street-level interview on the eve of his own Ken Kesey-esque bus trip across America to shoot socially conscious films.) Watch it
Oliver Stone Teaming With Pro-Bush ‘Path’ Writer
Oct 17, 2006 The "World Trade Center" filmmaker is heading a project on the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama Bin Laden -- written by Cyrus Nowrasteh, the scribe behind the wildly inaccurate ABC undocu-drama "The Path to 9/11."
Oliver Stone on Hollywood and the ?Machinery of War?
Sep 2, 2006 Oliver Stone, speaking at the Venice Film Festival, criticized Hollywood?s romance of war. ? 'Pearl Harbor' and 'Black Hawk Down' -- these movies worshipped the machinery of war and I think America went back to the concept of war too easily.?
?World Trade Center? Shuns Politics, Controversy
Aug 9, 2006 The N.Y. Times says "World Trade Center" marks a departure for filmmaker Oliver Stone in that the movie has no hint of a political agenda. It's a "harrowing return to a singular, disastrous episode in the recent past and a refuge from the ugly, depressing realities of its aftermath."
