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CELEBRITY: DOMINICK DUNNE

Australia | 2008
85 minutes
Directors: Kirsty de Garis, Timothy Jolley
Photography: Alexandria Hammond, Andrew Commis
Editor: Suresh Ayyar
Music: Antony Partos
With: Dominick Dunne, Robert Evans, Graydon Carter, Joan Didion, Ben Pesta
Festivals: Melbourne 2008

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Now well into his ninth decade, writer, producer and decorated war hero Dominick Dunne is best known lately for his biting coverage of celebrity courtcases in Vanity Fair. The scourge of O.J. Simpson and Phil Spector knows celebrity from the inside out: he has lived the life of a Hollywood high-flier with the intrepid dedication – and subsequent dismay – of a congenital outsider. His frank reflections on a life misspent and repented are interspersed here with further evidence: his own, star-struck home movies, and incisive testimony from Joan Didion, Tina Brown, Liz Smith, Robert Evans and more.

“Gripping... The observer becomes the observed and is a joy to behold. With razor-sharp wit, sartorial elegance, cool demeanor and an armory of stories that would give Scheherazade a run for her money, Dunne... gives audiences a gratifying performance that brims with integrity, intelligence, restrained indignation and flawless showmanship.” — Russell Edwards, Variety

“The celebrated chronicler of the rich and famous provides a complex prism through which to view the enduring cult of celebrity.”
— Hollywood Reporter

 

 


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