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The international news headlines were pretty grim in 1975. Lest we forget or never knew in the first place, events that year ...
The actor-turned-director's updated adaptation of the 1945 classic premiered at the Annecy animation film festival this week: ...
Summer is the prime season for reading books for pleasure. And physical books are the best way to read long works. You can ...
Scientists in two hail-dimpled vehicles with special mesh protecting the windshields are driving straight into the heart of ...
Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil' almost fell apart thanks to studio meddling. But now, with a new Criterion release, it's considered an all-time sci-fi classic.
History will no doubt look upon the outcome of the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard with the same skepticism now applied to O.J. Simpson's 1995 acquittal after charges of his killing his wife and her friend ...
Although the Cannes Film Festival is the world’s most prestigious movie showcase ... with the one Orwell fought against in Spain in the 1930s, and the one he envisaged in 1984, which he wrote ...
Raoul Peck's essay film about the creation of "1984" uses George Orwell's words and writings as a jumping-off point to chart the rise of modern fascism. On January 8, 2021, Donald Trump Jr. took ...
For about half an hour or so, Raoul Peck’s documentary “Orwell: 2+2=5” is amazingly restrained in the way it deals with author George Orwell, his seminal dystopian novel “1984” and its ...
We live in a time when governments use lexical distortions to manipulate public opinion – the very thing author George Orwell captured so cogently in his dystopian novel 1984, where the ...
In George Orwell’s search for isolation from a troubled world on a Scottish island and the pursuit of pleasure in simple things, photographer Craig Easton has followed. Now, a new book that ...