"The Unknown Known" with Errol Morris
When:
Sunday, Apr 06, 2014 3:00p -
5:30p
Sunday, Apr 06, 2014 3:00p -
5:30p
Where:
Coolidge Corner Theatre
290 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446
Admission:
$10
Categories:
Film, Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
http://www.coolidge.org/content/unknown-known
In The Unknown Known, Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris (The Fog of War) offers a mesmerizing portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, one of the key architects of the Iraq War, and a larger-than-life character who provoked equal levels of fury and adulation from the American public.
Rather than conducting a conventional interview, Morris has Rumsfeld perform and expound on his “snowflakes,” tens of thousands of memos (many never previously published) he composed as a congressman and as an advisor to four different presidents, twice as Secretary of Defense. These memos provide a window onto history—not history as it actually happened, but history as Rumsfeld wants us to see it. Morris makes plain that Rumsfeld’s “snowflakes”—whether intended to elucidate, rationalize, obfuscate, or control history—are contradicted by the facts. The Unknown Known is an illumination of the mystery of Donald Rumsfeld, an unknown known.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris (The Fog of War) will be at the Coolidge in person discussing the film on Sunday, April 6 at 3:00pm.