About this Event
June 28 - Television Event (2020), 91 minutes, directed by Jeff Daniels, featuring Nicholas Meyer, Edward Hume, and Ted Koppel.
Weaving together contemporary interviews and archival footage, Television Event revisits the making of the astonishing 1983 television movie The Day After. The realities of producing a film for television, in contrast to a theatrical release, are startingly well presented. And The Day After was truly a “television event” unlike any before or since. How is ABC going to sell ad revenue for a film that promises to bring the nuclear holocaust into American living rooms? And will anyone watch? Turns out The Day After was a cauterizing moment in American culture, eliciting national debates and even inspiring an arms reduction agreement between President Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev.
June 2024 CinemaLit - Documentaries: The Real and Surreal
June at CinemaLit features four outstanding and eclectic documentaries. Together they represent the great range of subjects available to the genre. Join us for The Cockettes (2002), Spellbound (2002), Umberto Eco: A Library of the World (2022), and Television Event (2020).
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Mechanics' Institute, Mechanics' Institute, San Francisco, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 10.00
