Emma Richards (@emri42.bsky.social)

Velshi Banned Book Club: Filmmaker Alex Gibney on the frightening relevance of Orwell’s warnings A brand new documentary from director Raoul Peck and producer Alex Gibney is a timely film centered around the writings and warnings of author George Orwell. It warns the “newspeak” of authoritarian rule is very much present in the current day. Gibney joins Ali Velshi to discuss the importance of Orwell’s works – especially at this point in history. “As a man of the world, he saw patterns of abuses of power, and he realized that they repeated themselves over and over and over again, across borders and through time,” Gibney says. “That's what makes Orwell's writing so compelling, is those simple patterns that repeat themselves over and over and over again…It's a very bleak vision of the future.” https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/velshi-banned-book-club-filmmaker-alex-gibney-on-the-frightening-relevance-of-orwell-s-warnings-249729093811