Last Party 2000 (2001)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Directors:

Rebecca Chaiklin
Donovan Leitch

Release Date:

29 January 2003 (France)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting...

Plot Keywords:

Campaign | Election | Protest | Democratic National Convention | Politics

Cast

Philip Seymour Hoffman	...	Himself - Narrator
Ben Harper	...	Himself
Noam Chomsky	...	Himself
Harold Ford Jr.	...	Himself (as Rep. Harold Ford Jr.)
Tim Robbins	...	Himself
John Sellers	...	Himself
Susan Sarandon	...	Herself
Christopher Shays	...	Himself (as Rep. Christopher Shays)
Bill Maher	...	Himself
Rosie O'Donnell	...	Herself
Melissa Etheridge	...	Herself
Courtney Love	...	Herself
Antonia Novello	...	Herself (as Dr. Antonia Novella)
Rudolph W. Giuliani	...	Himself (as Mayor Rudolph Giuliani)
The Interpreters	...	Themselves
Ralph Reed	...	Himself
Cheri Honkala	...	Herself
Jesse Jackson	...	Himself (as Rev. Jesse Jackson)
Pat Robertson	...	Himself (as Rev. Pat Robertson)
Patricia Ireland	...	Herself
Ralph Nader	...	Himself
Newt Gingrich	...	Himself
Jim Reese	...	Himself (as State Rep. Jim Reese)
Barney Frank	...	Himself (as Rep. Barney Frank)
Tim Hutchinson	...	Himself (as Sen. Tim Hutchinson)
Jeff Johnston	...	Himself
Barenaked Ladies	...	Themselves
Ed Robertson	...	Himself
Willie Nelson	...	Himself
Arlo Guthrie	...	Himself
Julia Butterfly Hill	...	Herself
Bonnie Raitt	...	Herself
Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman	...	Himself (as Floyd Red Crow Westerman)
Rage Against the Machine	...	Themselves
Ben Cohen	...	Himself
Michael Moore	...	Himself
Gary Johnson	...	Himself (as Gov. Gary Johnson)
Gary Johnson	...	Himself (as Gov. Gary Johnson)
Stone Temple Pilots	...	Themselves
Scott Weiland	...	Himself
Adora Obi Nweze	...	Herself
Robert Muhammad	...	Himself (as Minister Robert Muhammad)
Steve Earle	...	Himself
Greg Gladden	...	Himself (as Atty. Greg Gladden)
Bianca Jagger	...	Herself
John Kerry	...	Himself (as Sen. John Kerry)
Campbell Brown	...	Herself
Eddie Vedder	...	Himself
Mark Fritz	...	Himself
Rabbi Goldstein	...	Himself
Rosalyn Brodsky	...	Herself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
William Baldwin	...	Himself
Robert Downey Jr.	...	Himself
Al Gore	...	Himself
Jesse Jackson Jr.	...	Himself
Barbara Bush	...	Herself (uncredited)
George Bush	...	Himself (uncredited)
George W. Bush	...	Himself (uncredited)
Jeb Bush	...	Himself (uncredited)
Laura Bush	...	Herself (uncredited)
Bill Clinton	...	Himself (uncredited)
Chelsea Clinton	...	Herself (uncredited)
Hillary Rodham Clinton	...	Herself (uncredited)
Karenna Gore	...	Herself (uncredited)
Tipper Gore	...	Herself (uncredited)
Lee Greenwood	...	Himself (uncredited)
Katherine Harris	...	Herself (uncredited)
Tom Hayden	...	Himself (uncredited)
Charlton Heston	...	Himself (uncredited)
Larry King	...	Himself (uncredited)
Martin Luther King	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joseph Lieberman	...	Himself (uncredited)
Rick Schroder	...	Himself (uncredited)
Arnold Schwarzenegger	...	Himself (uncredited)
Charlie Sheen	...	Himself (uncredited)

Directed by
Rebecca Chaiklin
Donovan Leitch

Produced by
Nicole Boxer	....	associate producer
Stanley F. Buchthal	....	producer (as Stanley Buchthal)
Eric Cahan	....	co-executive producer
Rebecca Chaiklin	....	producer
Leah Culton	....	co-producer
Leah Culton	....	line producer
Dimitri Falk	....	co-executive producer
Henri M. Kessler	....	executive producer (as Henri Kessler)
Jon Kilik	....	executive producer
Donovan Leitch	....	producer
Gary J. Palermo	....	co-executive producer
Adam Paskow	....	co-executive producer
Josh Richman	....	co-executive producer
Vincent Roberti	....	executive producer
Mark D. Severini	....	executive producer (as Mark Severini)
Stephanie Sharis	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Sabina Sciubba

Cinematography by
Kevin Ford
Luke Geissbuhler
Carter B. Smith		(as Carter Smith)
Ben Weinstein

Film Editing by
Sabine Hoffmann		(as Sabine Hoffman)

Production Management
Greg Farina	....	post-production manager
David Friedman	....	post-production supervisor
Anushka Haguel	....	production supervisor

Sound Department
David Durando	....	additional sound
Jeff Formosa	....	sound designer
Anthony Gilfand	....	additional sound
Anton Gold	....	additional sound
Anton Gold	....	location sound: Boston
Georgia Hilton	....	sound editor
Michael Jordan	....	sound mixer
Michael Jordan	....	sound re-recording mixer
Michael Moss	....	additional sound
Peter Nubile	....	additional sound
Jordan Pardes	....	sound recordist
Court Young	....	additional sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Rebecca Chaiklin	....	director of photography: additional photography
Charles Phred Churchill	....	director of photography: additional photography
Anthony Converse	....	director of photography: additional photography
Leah Culton	....	director of photography: additional photography
Justin DeGuire	....	director of photography: additional photography
David Durando	....	director of photography: additional photography
Dimitri Falk	....	director of photography: additional photography
Greg Farina	....	director of photography: additional photography
Simon Kogler	....	director of photography: additional photography
Donovan Leitch	....	director of photography: additional photography
Anthony Nicolich	....	director of photography: additional photography
Michael Skolnik	....	director of photography: additional photography
Carter B. Smith	....	additional still photographer (as Carter Smith)
Brooke Williams	....	still photographer

Editorial Department
Jane Pia Abramowitz	....	additional editor
Brandon Boudreaux	....	second assistant editor
Kate Brennan	....	second assistant editor
Dan Brown	....	additional editor
R.P.M. Cobden	....	supervising editor
Ryan Cobden	....	post-production assistant
Leah Culton	....	additional editor
Kelly Delevan	....	assistant editor
Greg Farina	....	assistant editor
Greg Farina	....	segment editor
Jim Finn	....	negative supervisor
Kevin Ford	....	segment editor
Adam Guthman	....	second assistant editor
Richard Haylock	....	digital intermediate technician
Jordan Pardes	....	segment editor
Carter B. Smith	....	segment editor (as Carter Smith)
Joe Szutarski	....	colorist

Music Department
Dean DeLeo	....	composer: songs "Big Empty" and "Interstate Love Song"
Didi Gutman	....	composer: additional original music
Susan Jacobs	....	music supervisor

Other crew
Sarah Christman	....	intern
R.P.M. Cobden	....	event coordinator
Heather Cook	....	production assistant
David Durando	....	production coordinator
Taryn Garcia	....	production assistant
Andrew Herwitz	....	film sales agent: Film Sales Corp.
Marc Levin	....	godfather
Chelsea Madrigal	....	assistant: Mr. Hoffman
Richard Matson	....	creative consultant: Palisades
Britt McMurray	....	intern
Chad Nelson	....	intern
Doug O'Connor	....	avid provider
Brandon Ralph	....	interactive programmer
Jimmy Raskin	....	creative director: Camouflage
Jeff Shuster	....	intern
Crystal Taylor	....	intern
H. Spencer Young	....	additional post services: Spin Cycle Post

Thanks
Serena Altschul	....	special thanks
Mark Altshuler	....	special thanks
Nancy Bagley	....	special thanks
Karen Barber	....	special thanks
Barenaked Ladies	....	special thanks
Barbara Boxer	....	special thanks (as Senator Barbara Boxer)
Robin Bronk	....	special thanks
Liz Burns	....	special thanks
Beverly J. Camhe	....	special thanks
Zoe R. Cassavetes	....	special thanks (as Zoe Cassavetes)
Major Cherry	....	special thanks
The Culton Family	....	special thanks
Kelly Curtis	....	special thanks
The Dandy Warhols	....	special thanks
Sam Dryden	....	special thanks
Bob Dylan	....	special thanks
Steve Earle	....	special thanks
Melissa Etheridge	....	special thanks
Erika Euler	....	special thanks
Dianne Feinstein	....	special thanks (as Sen. Feinstein)
Jennifer Glasik	....	special thanks: PMK
Danny Goldberg	....	special thanks
Caesar Gonzales	....	special thanks: Rosemont Elementary School, Los Angeles
Enid Graddis	....	special thanks
Richard Graddis	....	special thanks
Mike Herald	....	special thanks
Alba Hernandez	....	special thanks: Rosemont Elementary School, Los Angeles
Erika Herrera	....	special thanks: Rosemont Elementary School, Los Angeles
Maja Hoffmann	....	special thanks: for her enduring love and support
Cheri Honkala	....	special thanks
Arianna Huffington	....	special thanks
Kirsty Hume	....	special thanks
The Interpreters	....	special thanks
Jesse Jackson	....	special thanks (as Rev. Jesse Jackson)
Bianca Jagger	....	special thanks
Jonathan Kanterman	....	special thanks
Douglas Keeve	....	special thanks
Barbara Kopple	....	special thanks
Megan Lee	....	special thanks: Rosemont Elementary School, Los Angeles
Monica Lee	....	special thanks: Rosemont Elementary School, Los Angeles
Vivian Lei	....	special thanks: Rosemont Elementary School, Los Angeles
Davien Littlefield	....	special thanks
Bill Maher	....	special thanks
Molly McEwan	....	special thanks
Mark McKinnon	....	special thanks
Moises Medina	....	special thanks: Rosemont Elementary School, Los Angeles
Jacob Mendoza	....	special thanks: Rosemont Elementary School, Los Angeles
Rob Montobano	....	special thanks
Emanuel Montoya	....	special thanks: Rosemont Elementary School, Los Angeles
Michael Moore	....	special thanks
Mark Morris	....	special thanks
Robert Muhammad	....	special thanks (as Minister Robert Muhammad)
Rob Nelson	....	special thanks
Willie Nelson	....	special thanks
Anthony Nicolich	....	special thanks
Doug O'Connor	....	special thanks
Rosie O'Donnell	....	special thanks
Tim O'Hare	....	special thanks
Annie O'Hoyan	....	special thanks
Rage Against the Machine	....	special thanks
Tracy Rice	....	special thanks
Vikki Rivas	....	special thanks: Rosemont Elementary School, Los Angeles
Tim Robbins	....	special thanks
Jeff Sachs	....	special thanks
Susan Sarandon	....	special thanks
K.C. Schulberg	....	special thanks
John Sellers	....	special thanks
Duncan Sheik	....	special thanks
Lara Shriftman	....	special thanks
Ione Skye	....	special thanks
Wendy Smith	....	special thanks
Billy Soto	....	special thanks: Rosemont Elementary School, Los Angeles
Marty Staff	....	special thanks
Leigh Stieglitz	....	special thanks
The Stone Temple Pilots	....	special thanks
Ken Sunshine	....	special thanks
Dave Surilnik	....	special thanks
Eddie Vedder	....	special thanks
Neil Young	....	special thanks
Emily Ziff	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Camouflage Productions Inc.
• Palisades Pictures

Distributors

• Film Movement (2003) (USA) (theatrical)
• Film Movement (2003) (USA) (DVD)
• ID Distribution
• Madman Entertainment (2001) (Australia) (all media)
• Metrodome Distribution (UK) (video)
• Noah Films (Israel)
• Noble Entertainment (2004) (Scandinavia) (all media)
• Telexcel (2004-????) (Argentina) (all media)

Other Companies

• Amnesty International  special thanks
• Andrews Air Force Base  special thanks
• Archive Films  stock footage
• CBS News Service  stock footage
• D2K  special thanks
• ESPY TV  tape-to-tape transfer
• FILM Archives  stock footage
• Farm Aid Inc.  special thanks
• Film Films  stock footage
• Greenpeace  special thanks
• Hugo Boss  special thanks
• Indelible Pictures  graphics and titles
• Independent Media Center  special thanks
• Independent Media Center  stock footage
• JSM Sound Design  special thanks
• KIRO News Seattle  stock footage
• MTV News and Docs  special thanks
• Magno Sound and Video  post-production services
• PMK Public Relations  special thanks
• Roosevelt High School, Los Angeles  special thanks
• Rosemont Elementary School, Los Angeles  special thanks
• Rudolph & Beer  legal services
• Screen Actors Guild (SAG)  special thanks
• Sloss Law Office  legal services
• Spin Ciclo Post Inc.  additional post-production services
• The Christian Coalition  special thanks
• The Creative Coalition  special thanks
• The Democratic National Committee  special thanks
• The Florida Chapter of the NAACP  special thanks
• The Green Party  special thanks
• The Grey Panthers  special thanks
• The Kensington Welfare Rights Union  special thanks
• The Log Cabin Republicans  special thanks
• The Million Mom March  special thanks
• The Reform Party  special thanks
• The Republican National Committee  special thanks
• The Ruckus Society  special thanks
• The Shadow Convention  special thanks
• The Texas Republican State Committee  special thanks
• Vandenberg Air Force Base  special thanks
• World Wide Audio  sound post-production
• Wynmoor Retirement Home, Fort Lauderdale  special thanks

Also Known As:

The Party's Over (USA) (video title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:M | France:U

Filming Locations:

Austin, Texas, USA

Company:

Camouflage Productions Inc.

Goofs:

Factual errors: When Representative Barney Frank is first introduced on screen, he was mistakenly identified as a Republican. In fact, he is a Democrat.

Quotes:

Philip Seymour Hoffman: It's easy not to care if you don't know what's going on.

Movie Connections:

Features "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (1986)

Soundtrack:

Once in a Lifetime

Good Rallying Cry, not a great film

The prior reviewer of THE PARTY'S OVER takes issue with the editor's choice not to cut the Republican and Democratic conventions in a parallel, us versus them fashion. That's fine and dandy, except that was not the intent of the film.

Documentary is an odd beast that few people understand. The uproar behind Michael Moore's BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE came in part because Moore *gasp* didn't specifically edit in sequence; sometimes his reactions to the words weren't the reactions given as the subject spoke. "They are lies!" the Right chanted, assuming the use of B roll caused Moore's film moot. Forget that everything Charlton Heston says on camera is, in fact, what Charlton Heston said to Michael Moore.

Frederick Wiseman, the grandpappy of cinema verite, would be the first person to tell you that documentary film is not the Truth in the way that ye olde traditional audience would expect it. How can it be? Someone chooses to film specific subjects, use specific music, edit in a specific fashion because it begets the theme of the film. This doesn't make documentary a faux relayer of society; it makes it more real than the simulacrum we inhibit, because the filmmaker chooses not to let society dictate her parameters.

I'm not saying THE PARTY'S OVER (its name through FILM MOVEMENT) is a great film; expecting the Green Party to fill the role of protagonist is a large hope to pin, and this is coming from a Green supporter. What the film does do well is document what happened, showing us things we didn't see on the news -- protests in Philiadelphia, questionable police brutality, the shutting down of protests that were zoned for a longer period of time, and the lack of substantial difference between the Republican and Democratic parties.

The best lines come from the politicians themselves -- Barney Frank, Christopher Shays, Henry Ford, and Gary Johnson all make great points about the inefficiencies of the system they inhabit, and they come at it from different sides of the aisle (who knew Frank was a Republican?). At the same time, turgid yes men like Newt Gingrich, Tim Hutchinson, and John Kerry come off as nothing more than arms of the establishment.

If you expect a beginning, middle, and end to this film, you'll be disappointed. If you want to see a part of history you didn't get from Tom Brokaw, it's good viewing. Unfortunately, your political views will color how you perceive this film, as the number of 10 and 1 ratings here do show.