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1984. 90 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1984. Roger Ebert. February 1, 1985. 3 min read. George Orwell made no secret of the fact that his novel 1984 was not really about the future but about the very time he wrote it in, the bleak years after World War II when England shivered in poverty and hunger. In a novel where passion is depicted as a crime, the ...
Dec 26, 2022 · It is an excellent dystopian novel with connections to the modern day and deep themes; however, the sexual content is continuous and explicit, discussing pleasure and how naked bodies look. The main character lusts after a woman, and about halfway through the book it becomes seriously depressing. This will affect kids differently, having a ...
Jan 2, 2016 · PODCAST: Listen to the podcast here (click to play/right click and select "save target as" to download): S2E11 - 1984* WRITTEN BOOK REVIEWS: Ryan: 5 Stars "...Ages like a fine wine with a dark, full-bodied harbinger of doom, increasing with relevance as each year goes by..." Wilk: 5 Stars "...A great book that paranoid losers think is…
Feb 15, 1985 · February 14, 1985 at 7:00 p.m. EST. Aficionados of the Noble Failure will love "1984," Michael Radford's tasteful but trivial adaptation of George Orwell's gloomy prediction of Western culture's ...
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Jun 13, 2019 · The novel has inspired at least one mediocre Hollywood production (starring the weirdly miscast Edmund O’Brien in 1956), several BBC adaptations, and the more interesting Michael Redford film ...
- Scott Bradfield
Jul 22, 2019 · Michael Radford’s adaptation of George Orwell’s “1984” is admirable in that it perfectly captures the look and feel of the novel’s oppressive dystopian setting, thanks mainly to its outstanding production design and cinematography, but unfortunately it’s less successful when it comes to presenting the narrative of its rebellious central figure.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four is a 1984 dystopian film written and directed by Michael Radford, based upon George Orwell 's 1949 novel. Starring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, and Cyril Cusack, the film follows the life of Winston Smith (Hurt), a low-ranking civil servant in a war-torn London ruled by Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. [6]
