Talk Cinema November Film Announced- Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer 11/11

Talk Cinema November Film Announced- Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
District Attorney, Gary Lieberstein, will lead post-film discussion.

When: Thursday, November 11, 2010. 7pm
Series continues through May: Dec. 9, Jan. 13, Feb. 10, Mar. 10, Apr. 7, May 12

What: Talk Cinema Napa Valley

Where: Napa Valley Opera House - 1030 Main Street, downtown Napa

Price: Single tickets: $15
Students: $10, with ID

Tickets: 707.226.7372, NVOH.org or in person at the NVOH box office at 1030 Main Street, Napa
Talk Cinema is a film series offering a unique selection of quality films curated by film critic Harlan Jacobson, a 30-year industry veteran. You're the critic at this festival-style experience where you'll be among the first to see an independent or foreign film before its theatrical release. Screenings are followed by moderated conversations hosted by a variety of distinguished critics, filmmakers and industry experts. You'll even have the opportunity to write your own review!

Thursday, November 11, 7pm
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
District Attorney, Gary Lieberstein, will be on hand for political commentary and response.

This week's Talk Cinema film is about Eliot Spitzer, the newly-minted talking head for CNN (some even say CNN stands for Client Number Nine!).

In 2008, Spitzer infamously resigned as Governor of New York in a jaw-dropping sex-scandal that provoked a media storm --and one filmmaker, Alex Gibney, to start asking questions about why?

Gibney is one of the best documentary guys of his time, the triple threat writer-producer-director of Enron The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side, Freakonimics, Casino Jack (Abramoff) and the United States of Money.

In his latest film, Gibney pulls it all together here about Spitzer, a whirlwind of a state attorney general dubbed the Sherriff of Wall Street, who took his prosecutorial skills to Albany as governor. Hell-bent on cleaning up the cesspool of NY state government, the Sherriff ran squarely into State Senate majority leader Joe Bruno and a couple of dozen lawmakers and Wall Streeters, who didn't so much get Spitzer in a back alley so much as throw Klieg lights on Spitzer when he was in the back alley....

Gibney makes the text book case that Spitzer's story was less High Noon and more Midnight Cowboy -- and that the bad guys won.

How un-Hollywood is that?

 

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