Politics: Past, Present, & Future
New York Premiere: The Return of the War Room
Monday, October 6, 2008
7:00 pm ET
New York
In Person
James Carville, Democratic political consultant; Dee Dee Myers, former White House Press Secretary for President Clinton; DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, filmmakers; Mark Miller, journalist, Newsweek
Moderator: David Edelstein, Film Critic, New York Magazine
When The War Room was released in 1993, it changed the way the media covers the campaign trail and marked the first time a candidate's behind-the-scenes staff became nearly as well-known as the presidential hopeful himself. In their Oscar-nominated film, famed directors DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus chronicled the inner workings of then-governor Bill Clinton's command center, and made stars out of strategists James Carville and George Stephanopoulos. Pennebaker and Hegedus are now celebrating the documentary's fifteenth anniversary with a new documentary for the Sundance Channel, The Return of the War Room, revisiting Carville, Mary Matalin, Stephanopoulos, Paul Begala, and others.
Funding for the Politics: Past, Present, & Future series has been provided by the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation.
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