Oppenheimer: The Man, the Movie, the Aftermath

Join OLLI Film Club moderator Sharon Boorstin and special guests for a discussion about Oppenheimer, the feature film directed by Christopher Nolan about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man known as the father of the atomic bomb. We begin with a screening of The Day After Trinity, a 1981 Academy Award-nominated documentary film that tells the story of Oppenheimer and includes interviews with physicists and witnesses involved in the creation and testing of the bomb. This is followed by a panel discussion with Kenneth Turan and Joshua McGuffie. Kenneth Turan is a former film critic of The Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, who hailed Oppenheimer as “arguably Nolan's most impressive work yet in the way it combines his acknowledged visual mastery with one of the deepest character dives in recent American cinema.” Joshua McGuffie is a doctoral candidate in the UCLA Department of History whose research at UCLA focused on the doctors and biologists who worked for the Manhattan Project.