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A haunting reminder of why Orwell still matters

Clips and pictures from the actual life of George Orwell were very interesting. Orwell had tuberculosis, and the news clips ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Raoul Peck’s new documentary “Orwell: 2+2=5” reimagines George Orwell’s words for an age of alleged “fake news,” ...
His novel “1984” captured the tactics of totalitarianism back in 1949. A startling new documentary from Raoul Peck looks at Orwell’s life. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...
The film is too interested in the brutality of totalitarianism to fully explore Orwell's great theme: the sinister unreality of it. Yet that’s not ultimately the reason “Nineteen Eighty-Four” remains ...
When George Orwell wrote '1984', he wasn’t warning us about technology. He was warning us about power. The telescreens, the microphones, the rewriting of history, they were never just gadgets. They ...
Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...
Listen to more stories on the Noa app. George Orwell was dying when he wrote 1984 in the late 1940s on the desolate Isle of Jura in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. Tuberculosis ravaged his body, and typing ...
EXCLUSIVE: It’s been more than 75 years since George Orwell published his classic 1984, a crucial novel that introduced the world to Big Brother, Thought Police and “Newspeak.” Never has Orwell’s ...
Research for this article was supported by a faculty fellowship from the Douglas A. Fraser Center for Workplace Issues at Wayne State University. George Orwell’s dystopian novels “Animal Farm” and ...