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The excellent documentary, CITIZENFOUR, on Edward Snowden and the
revelation of mass surveillance, is back at the Art Theater for
select times this week (along with the Oscar nominated short films
and other good stuff):<br>
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2:30pm Saturday 2/7<br>
7:30pm Sunday 2/8, Monday 2/9, and Wednesday 2/11<br>
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Blurb:<br>
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CITIZENFOUR is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute,
giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras
and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in
Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing
evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy
by the National Security Agency (NSA).<br>
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In January 2013, Poitras (recipient of the 2012 MacArthur Genius
Fellowship and co-recipient of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public
Service) was several years into making a film about surveillance
in the post-9/11 era when she started receiving encrypted e-mails
from someone identifying himself as "citizen four," who was ready
to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs
run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. In June 2013, she
and Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings
with the man who turned out to be Edward Snowden. She brought her
camera with her. The film that resulted from this series of tense
encounters is absolutely sui generis in the history of cinema: a
100% real-life thriller unfolding minute by minute before our
eyes. <br>
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Hope you can catch it if you hadn't during its earlier
appearance. Also, this film is nominated for best documentary at
the Academy Awards.<br>
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