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Snowden documentary and Snowden Artistic

This Saturday, at the Film Festival in New York, the world premiere of the film Laura Putrats “Citizenfour” will be held, the hero of which was Edward Snowden. In January 2013, Podtraz began work on the picture of the abuses of the American National Security Agency after the September 11 disaster. At this moment, the director began to receive letters by e-mail from someone with the nickname of Citizenfour ; Anonymous promised to reveal to her many secrets from the life of special services. Putraz and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong to meet this person. It turned out to be a former CIA employee and NSA Edward Snowden, who later asked for political asylum in Russia. The result of this meeting was a 100 % documentary thriller, shot in real time.

And the feature film about Edward Snowden will soon be shot by Oliver Stone. It is already known who will play the disgraced agent of the CIA: Joseph Gordon-Levitt . Cinema - in fact, the film adaptation of the book “Octopus Time”, written by the Russian lawyer Snowden Anatoly Kucheren, will be called “Snowden Files”. The production of the picture may begin at the end of this year.

The truth about how Bush was ruined from Vietnam

The star of the series "Mad men" Elizabeth Moss, together with Robert Redford and Kate Blanchett, will play in the film "Pravda" about the television scandal that happened on the American CB-Bi-ES channel in the program "60 minutes". The scandal erupted after the host Dan Razer said that George Bush escaped a call for war in Vietnam. After that, the ranger had to leave the channel, and the producer of the transfer of Mary Maps was dismissed. The film shot according to Memoirs Maps will be the director's debut of the screenwriter James Wanderbilt. Redford will play Otra, Blanchett - Maps, Moss - Veteran of the channel Lucy Scott.

A series about the attempt on Kennedy

The production company Jay Abrams Bad Robot and the Hulu online channel agreed to create a series based on Stephen King’s novel “11/22/63”. The main character of the nine -based project will be an American school teacher who will go into the past to prevent the murder of President John Kennedy. So far, only one season is planned, however, Hulu does not exclude the extension of the project: in the next seasons, the plot can be built around other historical and political dramas. Bad Robot bought the rights to film adaptation in April 2013 - after the novel published in 2011 became a bestseller.

Emma Watson about feminism

The Ambassador of Goodwill UN Emma Watson not so long ago uttered a speech in the headquarters of the organization dedicated to the launch of the campaign against the gender inequality of Heforshe . In her belief, the actress told how she realized herself as a feminist and why feminism is so important today. According to her, now feminism is often mistakenly understood the hatred of men, although in fact it implies only faith in the equal rights of the sexes (at the same time, the men were still guilty of Watson). Speech can be seen here:

Ben Affleck stood up for Islam

Ben Affleck accused the TV presenter Bill Mara and writer Sam Harris of “rude” and “racist” reviews of Islam. Having appeared at HBO in the Real Time talk show last evening, Affleck reacted violently to the statement of Mara that Islam is “the only religion that acts as a mafia” and which “kills you, if you say not that, draw the wrong book”. Affleck, who promoted in the program the “disappeared” Fincher, replied: “This is vulgar and racist. It’s how to say: “Ah you, a cunning Jew!” Your arguments sound like: “Everyone knows that the blacks themselves kill each other.” Ben Affleck's political correctness has found massive support on Twitter.

Iranian directors for nuclear self -restraint

The group of Iranian directors on the eve of Tiegran’s conclusion of a nuclear agreement launched an Internet campaign with the slogan “ T Here Is No Deal That is Worse No Deal” (“There is nothing worse than nothing”-this is the absence of any agreements with the international nuclear community), which is a powerful public statement on this issue. They created a special website No2nodeal.com , focused on the international community. Among these directors are Asgar Farhadi, Abbas Kiarasti and Rakhshan Bani Etemad (a female director, whose film “Tales” recently won a prize for the best scenario at the Venice Film Festival). Let me remind you that Iran and six countries (USA, Russia, China, Great Britain, France and Germany) must either reach an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, or refuse negotiations.

Hobertman about Georgian cinema

At the end of September, a retrospective of Georgian cinema was held in New York. Jim Hobertman in The New York Times : “The Georgian cinema is exotic and, like a mountainous area, sung by Russian writers Lermontov and Tolstoy, is unavailable, and is also desperately beautiful. And besides, it is largely unknown. Georgian films were always not easy to demonstrate as Georgian actually; They usually duplicated into Russian for distribution in other countries, while the Soviet authorities preferred to show them abroad in a general package dedicated to the cinema produced by a number of national studios. ”

Graham's letter in defense of Chaplin

Since 1947, the FBI so desperately tried to expel Charlie Chaplin from the United States, which fabricated the charges against him. The famous actor allegedly transported some woman across the border to use her for sexual purposes. In the fabricated case, Chaplin was facing a term of twenty years of prison. The current reason for the Maccartian persecution of the actor was his open sympathies to the USSR during the Second World War. On September 18, 1952, Chaplin left the United States and returned to his homeland, to the UK. The next day, the US Prosecutor General withdrew his visa, and the actor never returned to America again. A month later, Graham Green, a friend of Chaplin and Big Liberal, wrote an open letter to the actor, published on October 13, 1952 on the NEW pages Republic . Celebrating its 100th anniversary, the newspaper the other day reprinted this document .

Depardieu spoke about friendship with Putin

This week, the publication of the scandalous autobiography of Gerard Depardieu received a big resonance. In the book, the actor talks about how in his youth he had sex with men for money and robbed graves. But this is not the main thing. Daily Mail : “Depardieu also talks about his friendship with Vladimir Putin, President of Russia. For the first time they met in 2008 and immediately found a common language, recognizing that they had a lot in common. “We both could become hooligans,” he writes. “I think that he immediately liked my shock look ... The fact that I sometimes lie on the sidewalk of the dead drunk. As in my case, no one would put a penny and a penny when he was 15 years old.” Depardieu claims that he regularly writes to Putin. “This is very simple,” he explains. “I dictate, a special person writes my words in French, then translates them into Russian, and the letter lies with Putin on the table. I tell him about everything. He is like an old friend. It amuses him, and he answers.”

And instead of a postscript, see an excerpt from the film "Spies" Fritz Lang from the The Masters of Cinema collection: