Tag: Orwell documentary
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Heads to Sedona International Film Festival
– Northern Arizona Premiere – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of Orwell: 2+2=5 screening November 7-13, 2025 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon and Mary D. Fisher theaters. Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theater and…
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Orwell: 2+2=5 and Damian Lewis Nominated for Critics Choice Documentary Awards
– Best Narration and Best Documentary – Orwell: 2+2=5 leads the pack with seven nominations including Best Documentary Feature for the 10th annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards. The film’s other nominations are Raoul Peck for Best Director, Alexandra Strauss for Best Editing, Alexei Aigui for Best Score, Best Narration (Written by George Orwell, Adapted by…
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Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 Director Raoul Peck Warns America
– “At some point, you’re next in line” – by Denton Davidson | Gold Derby | October 9, 2025 The Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind I Am Not Your Negro brings George Orwell’s words to life in a new documentary that warns against apathy, denial, and the rewriting of truth. When Raoul Peck takes on an author, he’s not just making…
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Orwell 2+2=5 Screens at BFI London Film Festival
– BFI 2025 – Orwell 2+2=5 is scheduled to screen at this year’s 69th annual BFI London Film Festival, which runs from October 8-19, 2025 at London’s South Bank, West End venues, partner cinemas around UK, and at home on BFI Player. Specifically, Royal Festival Hall, Picturehouse Central, The Prince Charles Cinema, Curzon, Vue West…
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REVIEW: Damian Lewis is Orwell in ‘Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5’
– Truth, Power, and How Fragile Democracy Can Be – by Damianista | Fan Fun With Damian Lewis | October 7, 2025 “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” – George Orwell, 1984 Last weekend, I was lucky to attend a screening of ‘Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5’ at…
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Raoul Peck’s New film on Orwell Warns Us What Comes Next
– Both Familiar and Terrifyingly Current – by Josh Rottenberg | Los Angeles Times | October 7, 2025 No one goes to Cannes expecting to be frightened by a film about a long-dead British writer. Unless, of course, that writer is George Orwell. When Raoul Peck’s documentary “Orwell: 2+2=5” premiered at the festival in May, the…
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Adds Up Everything Keeping You Awake at Night
– Damian Lewis: Warm Yet Resolute – by Jacob Oller | AV Club | October 3, 2025 Documentarian Raoul Peck cuts into our modern hell, using George Orwell as his scalpel. It’s hard to settle on which modern catastrophe will keep you up at night. Will it be the government cover-ups that lack the self-respect…
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Review – A Succinct Warning for What’s Already Here
– When Fiction is Fact – by Dan Mecca | The Film Stage | October 3, 2025 “From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned,” George Orwell wrote in his 1946 essay “The Prevention of Literature.” Orwell: 2+2=5, the new documentary from Raoul Peck, serves as a stark reminder…