April 2-3: Daniel Ellsberg In Person @ Cinema 21 | "The Most Dangerous Man in America"
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The Most Dangerous Man in America
Premiere (2009, 92 min.)
Directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
Documentary
Daniel Ellsberg in person tonight and tomorrow! Meet Daniel Ellsberg at our 4:30 and 7 PM shows, Friday & Saturday! In 1971, during the Nixon years, a Rand Corporation think tank member named Daniel Ellsberg leaked a secret Pentagon assessment of the Vietnam war to the New York Times, contributing to the cessation of that conflict, and landing himself a place on Nixon's enemies list. Nixon's secret investigation of Ellsberg was the real start of the Watergate affair. Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith's documentary recounts this history, primarily f rom the source, Ellsberg himself, now 78.
David Edelstein of New York hales the film as an important document in itself. “So many people risked their livelihoods to put the 7,000-page Pentagon Papers out there — although its most tangible result was the creation of Nixon's plumbers unit. We have not celebrated Daniel Ellsberg enough. Let's begin.” Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times notes that Ellsberg “lends the film gravitas as both its persuasive narrator and primary talking head.” Mike Hale of theNew York Times calls THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN a “detailed, clearly told and persuasive film.”
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April 2, 2010 at 16:53
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