Trailer for 2013 Tribeca Film Festival world premiere GORE VIDAL: THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA was released.

Directed by Nicholas Wrathall (Abandoned: The Betrayal of America’s Immigrants), the film features the final interviews with the iconic American writer, essayist, and singular intellectual.  Featuring interviews with Gore Vidal, Burr Steers, Christopher Hitchens, Jodie Evans, Tim Robbins, Mikhail Gorbachev, Sting, David Mamet, Bob Scheer, William F. Buckley, Jay Parini, Norman Mailer, Nina Straight and Dick Cavett.

No twentieth-century figure has had a more profound effect on the worlds of literature, film, politics, historical debate, and the culture wars than Gore Vidal.  Anchored by intimate one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s new documentary is a fascinating and wholly entertaining portrait of the last lion of the age of American liberalism. 

Commentary by those who knew him best—including filmmaker/nephew Burr Steers and the late Christopher Hitchens—blends with footage from Vidal’s legendary on-air career to remind us why he will forever stand as one of the most brilliant and fearless critics of our time.

GORE VIDAL: THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA is playing in the Spotlight Section of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, and will world premiere on Thursday, April 18th at 8:30pm at the AMC Loews Village 7.  Additional public screenings are Saturday, April 20th, 2:30pm at the AMC Loews Village 7, and Friday, April 26th at 5:30pm at the Clearview Cinemas Chelsea.

http://youtu.be/INW6i6K1NmQ