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Nearly Sane

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Re: The Death of Stalin
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2017, 08:54:31 AM »
Great cast ...looking forward to that one too.
Pain, or damage, don't end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back. - Al Swearengen, Deadwood.

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Re: The Death of Stalin
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2017, 09:20:48 AM »
Great cast ...looking forward to that one too.
Looks tremendous.
I wonder how it would have been tackled 50 years ago.....Carry on Kruschev no doubt.

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Re: The Death of Stalin
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2017, 09:35:36 AM »
The story goes that Stalin need not necessarily have died when he did - he collapsed due to a stroke; when the minions poked their heads around the door eventually and saw him splayed out on the floor (comatose but not at that point dead) they were so terrified of disturbing him that nobody called in a doctor until it was too late.

Now that's a scary man.
Pain, or damage, don't end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back. - Al Swearengen, Deadwood.

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Re: The Death of Stalin
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2017, 09:54:54 AM »
Stalin died in the Kuntsevo district.

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Re: The Death of Stalin
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2017, 11:42:38 PM »
Stalin's dead?! :o When did this happen? I didn't hear anything on the news!
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Re: The Death of Stalin
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2017, 05:59:45 PM »
Off to see this tomorrow night with a Q&A with the director

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Re: The Death of Stalin
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2017, 11:16:46 AM »
Was rather splendid. Manages to maintain a tone that allows for black humour but also gives an idea of the terror when saying almost anything could be taken the wrong way. Great performances, particularly from Simon Russell Beale and Steve Buscemi. The music is brilliantly done, and integral to setting both the mood, and in some ways to the plot. The most outrageous parts of the plot are all true.


The writer/director Armando Iannucci was incredibly charming at the Q&A in front of an audience that were obviously huge fans of his work.  His next film that he is working on is David Copperfield.
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Re: The Death of Stalin
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Re: The Death of Stalin
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2018, 04:55:02 PM »
Good interview with writer/director Armando Iannucci with release of film in US and ban in Russia



https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/the-death-of-stalin-armando-iannucci/550937/