[Peace] CITIZENFOUR back this week at Art - select times - film on Edward Snowden's revelation of NSA mass surveillance

[Stuart Levy]

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):

     2:30pm  Saturday 2/7
     7:30pm  Sunday 2/8, Monday 2/9, and Wednesday 2/11

Blurb:

    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).

    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.

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.
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