The New York Times – Film:
A new film depicts the 1986 nuclear arms summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, which both offered and dashed hopes of a dramatic breakthrough.
Category: Nuclear Weapons
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The Newest ‘Godzilla’ Film Is Stranger Than Fiction
The New York Times – Film:
Effects artists annihilate cities in movies all the time. Tokyo really was destroyed, a reality the best Godzilla stories have always taken seriously.
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‘Oppenheimer’ Will Be Released in Japan After Backlash Over Marketing
The New York Times – Film:
Many in Japan were offended by what they saw as insensitive cross-promotion with the film “Barbie,” but the biopic will be released next year.
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‘Oppenheimer’ Fans Are Rediscovering a 40-Year-Old Documentary
The New York Times – Film:
“The Day After Trinity,” made available without a subscription until August, shot to the top of the Criterion Channel’s most-watched films.
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Christopher Nolan on J. Robert Oppenheimer and His Contradictions
The New York Times – Film:
The biopic director argues that the physicist who oversaw creation of the atomic bomb was both the most important person who ever lived and hopelessly naïve.
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Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making
The New York Times – Film:
Martin Sherwin struck the deal and dove into the research. But it was only when Kai Bird joined as a collaborator that “American Prometheus” came to be.