Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie that’s available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment. We’re calling the series “Revisiting Hours” — consider this Rolling Stone’s unofficial film club. This week: Keith Phipps on David Cronenberg‘s pre-Putin evil-Russian crime-thriller Eastern Promises. …
Read More »Armando Iannucci on 'Death of Stalin,' Satire and Trump's Funeral
The Death of Stalin opens in Radio Moscow in 1953, where an orchestra is wrapping up the third movement of a Mozart piano concerto. The phone rings. It’s Joseph Stalin, personally requesting a copy of the performance. Panic grips the studio. They have no recording – which means they have …
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