- Director John Else, who won the first ever Sundance documentary award in 1980 for his film The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb returns to Sundance, and to familiar subject matter, with Wonders Are Many, a documentary about the making of Doctor Atomic, an opera produced in San Francisco about Robert Oppenheimer in the weeks leading up to the detonation of his atomic bomb. Art imitates annahilation in the work of composer John Adams, the most accomplished living American composer, and stage director Peter Sellers, who has directed hundreds of productions across the world, as they write, cast, rehearse and design the first ever opera that contains pieces of once-classified information and a actual-size replication of the atomic bomb. Interwoven is footage of Oppenheimer himself, interviews with Robert Wilson, one of the grad-students present at Oppenheimer’s top-secret Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, and lots
- 1/21/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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