NYFF 2015: Michael Almereyda’s Experimenter

Experimenter screens at 9pm on Tuesday, October 6 and Wednesday, October 7 within the main slate of the 53rd New York Film Festival. The film opens theatrically on October 16.
Michael Almereyda’s Experimenter, starring Peter Sarsgaard as controversial postwar social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who died at age 51 in 1984, is droll and compelling. It is also enterprising in reaching outside the comfort zone of anointed scientific lions like Stephen Hawking or tragic figures like Alan Turi