As Awards Season for 'Oppenheimer' Opens: What's Missing in the Movie
A review of my critiques since its July debut.
Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including “Hiroshima in America,” “Atomic Cover-up” and the recent award-winning “The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” He has directed three documentary films since 2021 for PBS (you can still watch “Atomic Cover-up”). You can subscribe to this newsletter for free.
The Golden Globes might be laughable on several levels but the show tonight does mark the start of the unofficial televised “awards season.” Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is one of the favorites and will remain so, with Oscar finalists soon to be announced and onward. And, of course, it has been streaming for several weeks, bringing it to new audiences.
So I feel it may be useful here to simply link to a number of my assessments, critiques and historical fact-checking going back to the first days of the launching of this newsletter last July. And if you haven’t subscribed already you can still do it here, for free.
On the early screening in NYC, with Nolan on panel.
An Afternoon With Oppie
UPDATE, Sat. night: Just home after the 2 p.m. Oppenheimer screening (then panel and reception) in a modern basement theater seating 120 in a hotel not far from Central Park. When we arrived we saw about 15 activists outside the hotel, some with signs, and I presumed it had to do with the actors/writers strike but, no, it was an
First Notes on Seeing "Oppenheimer"
Last night, returning from Manhattan after the Oppenheimer screening, I posted atop Saturday’s already-mailed newsletter a few general thoughts on the movie and a couple of highlights from the panel, with remarks by director Christopher Nolan. I’ve pasted them at the bottom today, as I want to start with a few specific comments on the movie, which doe…
More Notes After Seeing "Oppenheimer"
Hello again on day five of this new bloggy newsletter on Oppenheimer: the man, the movie, The Bomb. As I’ve noted, I saw the movie at a screening in NYC on Saturday (and panel featuring director Christoper Nolan afterward). That night, I wrote up a few reflections
Below on more that is missing: The major failing is in not challenging the entrenched “Hiroshima narrative” that holds that the use of the bombs, and only the use of the bombs, ended the war.
What We Didn't See in 'Oppenheimer'
Strong response to this new bloggy newsletter and my various articles and media appearances in past week or so has been gratifying, especially since it has drawn attention to key issues surrounding nuclear dangers that I have been raising since, oh, 1982. Among other things, there’s been a run on my book “
I sent you my Nolan piece late last night Greg.
Thanks, Will do.