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49 years after the shocking (but forgotten) true story, Bill Skarsgård plays a scorned kidnapper in Dead Man's Wire, a surprisingly funny crime thriller with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score

Exclusive: Bill Skarsgård discusses starring in Gun Van Sant's surprisingly funny crime thriller about real-life kidnapper Tony Kiritsis

Total Film

Dead Man's Wire review: Bill Skarsgård is deeply unsettling in this retro hostage drama

4/5 Gus Van Sant’s retelling of a 1977 kidnapping at gunpoint will make your palms sweat

Evening Standard

Dead Man’s Wire review – an outrageous true crime story told blandly by Gus Van Sant

3/5 A twitchy man takes a mortgage broker hostage in this Seventies thriller, starring Bill Skarsgård and Al Pacino

The Independent UK

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Gus Van Sant: ‘My assistant wanted to erect a statue of Luigi Mangione. My generation thought: this is murder’

The Milk and Good Will Hunting director’s new film is about ‘a little guy’ taking violent revenge against the system. He talks about the parallels between Dead Man’s Wire and the homicide case currently dividing Gen Z and boomers

The Guardian - UK

Don’t Let The Timeliest True-Crime Thriller Of The Year Pass You By

Gus Van Sant makes a comeback 8 years later with 'Dead Man's Wire, a lightweight 'Dog Day Afternoon' riff that is a ton of fun.

Inverse

Last Days at Royal Opera: 'One of the most original operas this century'

5/5 Loosely based on Gus Van Sant’s film, which itself is loosely based on the final days of Kurt Cobain, this opera has its own special atmosphere

Evening Standard

Dead Man’s Wire review – Gus Van Sant calls the shots with surreal true-crime thriller

Al Pacino, Colman Domingo and Myha’la excel in this gripping take on the events of 1977 when an Indianapolis businessman held his mortgage broker hostage

The Guardian - UK

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Are You a Retirement Millionaire Too Afraid to Spend?

Don't let regret haunt you. Here are six ways to safely enjoy your sizable retirement nest egg.

Kiplinger

In global game of influence, China turns to a cheap and effective tool: fake news

In its bid for global influence, China is expanding its use of propaganda and fake news throughout the world, often disguising it with fake journalists and dubious sites posing as legitimate news sources

The Independent UK

‘My slogan is very simple: no education, just liberation!’ – Béla Tarr on how film can fight the political right in Hungary

The Hungarian film director is known for his existentially daunting black and white films. He explains why he left his home country to run his own film school, and why he loves Chekhov, Hitchcock – and Gus Van Sant

The Guardian - UK

That Time Good Will Hunting’s Director Tried To Shoot His Shot For The Fifty Shades Of Grey Gig By Sending In A Pre-Filmed Sex Scene

Gus Van Sant tried to get the attention of the Fifty Shades of Grey author by filming a sex scene from the book.

Cinemablend

The Paranoid Style in Gun Control Politics

Bloomberg's "The Trace" fabricates a conspiracy about amicus brief writers who adhere to Supreme Court Rules

Reason

The Week on Stage: From Good to Peaky Blinders – The Redemption of Thomas Shelby

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK

Last Days at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio review: this opera based on Gus van Sant’s film is exemplary

A meditation on a lost soul that could stand for all those who are driven to despair

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The Independent UK

Last Days review: Extraordinary Kurt Cobain opera avoids all the clichés Nirvana fans might have predicted

Director Gus Van Sant gave permission for the script of his 2005 film ‘Last Days’ to be used as the inspiration for a new production about the Nirvana frontman. The result, staged at Linbury Theatre, is finely wrought and deserving of accolades

Evening Standard

Royal Opera House swaps glitz for grunge in Gus Van Sant adaptation

As the Royal Opera House readies itself for a grunge adaptation, Richard Godwin asks, why are we so attached to old misconceptions about snobbery in the oeuvre?

Los Angeles Times

Appreciation: Anne Heche was an extraordinary actor. The movies never really figured her out

One of Anne Heche's greatest performances can be found in "Birth" (2004), Jonathan Glazer's magnificently eerie drama about love, grief and the insidious power of suggestion. She enters the movie early, with long brown hair — a departure from the short blond cuts that had become a signature look —…

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