Raoul Peck, who will be at the Cannes Film Festival next month with his George Orwell documentary, “Orwell: 2+2=5,” delivered a blistering warning about the global rise of autocracy this week at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When he was 19 years old, still eons away from the essays, the novels, and the pseudonym that would grant him literary immortality ...

In the new documentary “Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5,” filmmaker Raoul Peck explores the writer George Orwell’s life and how his experiences informed his ideas and his writing. The film intersperses clips from ...

At this point, it sometimes feels like a cliché or reductive to say that our modern world is like 1984, George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel released in 1949, or to say things have become ...

TheWrap magazine: The “Orwell: 2+2=5” filmmaker emphasizes the lesson’s told are bigger than just one leader and that the tools for controlling people “never change” Sometimes, a film about the past ...

Although the Cannes Film Festival is the world’s most prestigious movie showcase, its spotlight rarely falls on nonfiction film. Years go by without a single documentary competing for its biggest ...

Is art replicating life when it comes to Orwell’s most influential novel? Emrah Atasoy and Jeffrey Wasserstrom investigate ...