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Starting May 18, director Oliver Stone will appear in person at the Aero Theatre for screenings of his films Nixon , U-Turn / Natural Born Killers , and Heaven and Earth / Salvador . A director who has worked in a wide variety of genres, from horror ( The Hand ) and war ( Platoon ) to film noir ( U-Turn ) and sports ( Any Given Sunday ), Oliver Stone is characterized, above all else, by his range. Though he is often pigeonholed as a political polemicist because of movies like JFK and Salvador , Stone is closer in spirit to the Hollywood filmmakers of the classical studio system; like Howard Hawks, Nicholas Ray, and others, he has made a point of injecting his personal preoccupations into recognizable popular formats, challenging himself by moving from the intimate to the epic and back again. In addition to the films listed above, he’s made a musical ( The Doors ), business pictures (the two Wall Street s), love stories ( World Trade Center, Snowden ), and one of the greatest old-sch...

Filmmaker Oliver Stone appeared in person three nights at the Aero Theatre to share his films, and the stories behind making them, with the audience. On Friday, May 19, 2017, the American Cinematheque welcomed Stone with a screening of U-Turn (1997) and Natural Born Killers (1994). As Stone explained, his inspiration for U-Turn had to do with the aftermath of the release of Nixon.  “Nixon was not well received, it broke my heart. I wish the movie had been more appreciated. After that, I went to a very solitary place …wrote a novel…I edited, got it down to 200 – 300 pages. I was on an inner journey… I needed to get back into things so I did a low budget movie, to make a profit. I loved this thing.” Stone said the reviews of U-Turn weren’t what he hoped they would be, “They called it slimy, seedy…it was based on a book [ Stray Dogs ], but we changed it a lot.” U-Turn is set in Superior, an old mining town. Stone said the people who lived there didn’t want him to change the na...