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Mr Jones review – gripping Stalin-era thriller with James Norton
n the cusp of the second world war, with Hitler stirring his power base and Stalin selling the idea of a communist utopia to the west, a young Welsh journalist takes the unfashionable stance that there is only one “truth”. Gareth Jones (James Norton), former adviser to prime minister Lloyd George, hustles a trip to Moscow with the intention of interviewing Stalin, but instead stumbles on the story of a man-made famine in Ukraine.
‘Mr. Jones’ Review: Bearing Witness to Stalin’s Evil
In Ukraine, the nationalistic West is Ukrainian-speaking and welcomes the E.U., while the Russian-speaking ETwenty minutes have been cut from Agnieszka Holland’s fact-based drama since its premiere last year and the result is a stirring, at times vividly inventive piece of film-making that strikes a note of warning about the risks of fake news. Holland fills the Moscow cityscape with colour – skies of Soviet red and interiors decorated in a decadent palette of bourbon and naked flesh –
“Mr. Jones” Remembers When Stalin Weaponized Famine
he Polish director Agnieszka Holland, now seventy-one, has toiled in many fields. “The Secret Garden” (1993) and “Washington Square” (1997) point to a predilection for bookish costume drama, yet Holland also made three episodes of “The Wire.” Her most tenacious work has centered on lone figures, as they seek to outwit, or simply to withstand, the weight of authoritarian threat. “Europa Europa” (1990) is based on the true story of a German Jewish boy who joined the Hitler Youth. “Burning Bush”
Mr Jones review – gripping Stalin-era thriller with James Norton
n the cusp of the second world war, with Hitler stirring his power base and Stalin selling the idea of a communist utopia to the west, a young Welsh journalist takes the unfashionable stance that there is only one “truth”. Gareth Jones (James Norton), former adviser to prime minister Lloyd George, hustles a trip to Moscow with the intention of interviewing Stalin, but instead stumbles on the story of a man-made famine in Ukraine.
‘Mr. Jones’ Review: Bearing Witness to Stalin’s Evil
In Ukraine, the nationalistic West is Ukrainian-speaking and welcomes the E.U., while the Russian-speaking ETwenty minutes have been cut from Agnieszka Holland’s fact-based drama since its premiere last year and the result is a stirring, at times vividly inventive piece of film-making that strikes a note of warning about the risks of fake news. Holland fills the Moscow cityscape with colour – skies of Soviet red and interiors decorated in a decadent palette of bourbon and naked flesh –
“Mr. Jones” tells the story of the man who exposed the Ukrainian famine
The film, starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby and Peter Sarsgaard, portrays journalism as a type of heroism Feb 20th 2019 Share By J.T-J. | BERLIN WALKING THROUGH rural Ukraine in 1932, having eluded his Communist Party chaperone, Gareth Jones witnessed disturbing deprivation. People were starving, fighting each other tooth and nail for a single loaf of bread. Bodies lay in the street until they were piled up and carted away on wagons. While its own citizens suffered, the Soviet Union was continuing to export grain, projecting an image of prosperity to the West.
Opinion ‘Mr. Jones’ and the deadly consequences of shoddy journa
The young Welsh reporter, Gareth Jones (played by James Norton), established his reputation by becoming the first foreign journalist to interview Adolf Hitler in his private plane after his appointment as chancellor of the German Empire in 1933. Jones then decided to investigate the structures that allowed Josef Stalin to finance his rapid modernization of the Soviet Union amid the global Great Depression.Jones established contact with the New York Times bureau chief in Moscow, Walter Duranty (Peter Sarsgaard), who had won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a series of reports about the Soviet Union.
'Mr. Jones': the journalist who exposed Stalin's famine
Agniezska Holland's Berlinale film revisits the Holodomor, the man-made famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in 1933. Reporter Gareth Jones broke the story that Soviets tried to hide and other journalists denied. https://p.dw.com/p/3D6Zt A scene from the film Mr. Jones Image: Robert Palka/Film Produkcja ADVERTISEMENT The film opens on a pen of pigs noisily eating, surrounded by endless fields of wheat, symbolizing Ukraine's extremely fertile agriculture. By 1932-33 such backdrops had been replaced by violent impoverishment, as Ukrainians suffered from one of history's most disastrous man-made famines: Stalin turned Ukraine into the breadbasket of the
“Mr. Jones” tells the story of the man who exposed the Ukrainian famine
The film, starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby and Peter Sarsgaard, portrays journalism as a type of heroism Feb 20th 2019 Share By J.T-J. | BERLIN WALKING THROUGH rural Ukraine in 1932, having eluded his Communist Party chaperone, Gareth Jones witnessed disturbing deprivation. People were starving, fighting each other tooth and nail for a single loaf of bread. Bodies lay in the street until they were piled up and carted away on wagons. While its own citizens suffered, the Soviet Union was continuing to export grain, projecting an image of prosperity to the West.
Opinion ‘Mr. Jones’ and the deadly consequences of shoddy journa
The young Welsh reporter, Gareth Jones (played by James Norton), established his reputation by becoming the first foreign journalist to interview Adolf Hitler in his private plane after his appointment as chancellor of the German Empire in 1933. Jones then decided to investigate the structures that allowed Josef Stalin to finance his rapid modernization of the Soviet Union amid the global Great Depression.Jones established contact with the New York Times bureau chief in Moscow, Walter Duranty (Peter Sarsgaard), who had won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a series of reports about the Soviet Union.
Mr Jones film highlights Welsh 'unknown hero' Gareth Jones
Mr Jones stars James Norton as the reporter exposing a man-made famine in 1930s Ukraine. Polish director Agnieszka Holland, whose previous work has been Oscar nominated, said she felt "pride" at sharing more of his story. The film includes graphic depictions of the famine and details Soviet efforts to suppress the truth. It is inspired by the true story of Gareth Jones, from Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan. He was a Western Mail journalist who managed to reach Ukraine to witness the horror of Stalin's imposed famine. Jones was killed on a separate reporting mission to Inner Mongolia as he turned 30 years old.
Mr Jones is an impressively told story of Soviet mass murder and journalism
The young Welsh reporter, Gareth Jones (played by James Norton), established his reputation by becoming the first foreign journalist to interview Adolf Hitler in his private plane after his appointment as chancellor of the German Empire in 1933. Jones then decided to investigate the structures that allowed Josef Stalin to finance his rapid modernization of the Soviet Union amid the global Great Depression.Jones established contact with the New York Times bureau chief in Moscow, Walter Duranty (Peter Sarsgaard), who had won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a series of reports about the Soviet Union.
TRUTH & MOVIES
n 2006, a plaque was unveiled at Aberystwyth University for Gareth Jones, a Welsh journalist who died in relative obscurity at the age of 29. It was a small, defiant recognition of a man who had been shamed in his time for doing the right thing. Jones had written of Stanlinist inefficiency, particularly the Holodomor, the famine in Ukraine that killed up to 7.5 million people between 1932 and 1933, at a time when the US was preparing to cool relations with the USSR and conventional journalistic wisdom was to praise communism as imperfect but brave.
Mr Jones film highlights Welsh 'unknown hero' Gareth Jones
Mr Jones stars James Norton as the reporter exposing a man-made famine in 1930s Ukraine. Polish director Agnieszka Holland, whose previous work has been Oscar nominated, said she felt "pride" at sharing more of his story. The film includes graphic depictions of the famine and details Soviet efforts to suppress the truth. It is inspired by the true story of Gareth Jones, from Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan. He was a Western Mail journalist who managed to reach Ukraine to witness the horror of Stalin's imposed famine. Jones was killed on a separate reporting mission to Inner Mongolia as he turned 30 years old.
Mr Jones is an impressively told story of Soviet mass murder and journalism
The young Welsh reporter, Gareth Jones (played by James Norton), established his reputation by becoming the first foreign journalist to interview Adolf Hitler in his private plane after his appointment as chancellor of the German Empire in 1933. Jones then decided to investigate the structures that allowed Josef Stalin to finance his rapid modernization of the Soviet Union amid the global Great Depression.Jones established contact with the New York Times bureau chief in Moscow, Walter Duranty (Peter Sarsgaard), who had won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a series of reports about the Soviet Union.
Masked Men Storm Moscow Screening Of Agnieszka Holland’s ‘Mr Jones’
Masked men stormed a Moscow showing of Agnieszka Holland‘s film Mr Jones yesterday night, chanting “Shame on the Motherland” as they took over the stage. In footage posted on Twitter, the group of what appeared to be around 20 people took to the front of Moscow’s Memorial Human Rights Center, where the film was being shown. The 20-second clip shows them repeatedly chanting “Shame on the Motherland” in Russian. The Center’s lawyer Irina Sherbakova told The Guardian that police were called and the authorities handcuffed the entrance doors to its office, locking staff and attenders of the screening inside for hours.
Film about courageous Welsh journalist to be screened onto Russian Embassy
Today in Washington a determined group of protestors will take the latest in a series of actions to protest the war in Ukraine. They will screen a movie about the courageous and campaigning Welsh journalist Gareth Jones onto the walls of the Russian Embassy. In 1933, the former Western Mail reporter was the first journalist to expose Moscow’s genocidal Holodomor famine in Ukraine – Stalin banned him from returning to Russia. 90 years later the Kremlin is still banning those who reveal the truth.
Annoy Putin—Watch This Movie At the screening of a film about Soviet horror, thugs arrive to intimidate free-thinking Russians.
In 2019 actor Peter Sarsgaard addresses a press conference for the film "Mr. Jones," in which he plays Stalinist liar Walter Duranty of the New York Times. PHOTO: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES Last year this column lauded the brilliant film “Mr. Jones,” which chronicles the Soviet Union’s mass starvation of Ukraine during the murderous reign of Stalin—and the 1930s media coverup led by Walter Duranty of the New York Times. A year later, the film hasn’t gotten any more popular among Russian enemies of liberty.
Masked Men Storm Moscow Screening Of Agnieszka Holland’s ‘Mr Jones’
Masked men stormed a Moscow showing of Agnieszka Holland‘s film Mr Jones yesterday night, chanting “Shame on the Motherland” as they took over the stage. In footage posted on Twitter, the group of what appeared to be around 20 people took to the front of Moscow’s Memorial Human Rights Center, where the film was being shown. The 20-second clip shows them repeatedly chanting “Shame on the Motherland” in Russian. The Center’s lawyer Irina Sherbakova told The Guardian that police were called and the authorities handcuffed the entrance doors to its office, locking staff and attenders of the screening inside for hours.
Film about courageous Welsh journalist to be screened onto Russian Embassy
Today in Washington a determined group of protestors will take the latest in a series of actions to protest the war in Ukraine. They will screen a movie about the courageous and campaigning Welsh journalist Gareth Jones onto the walls of the Russian Embassy. In 1933, the former Western Mail reporter was the first journalist to expose Moscow’s genocidal Holodomor famine in Ukraine – Stalin banned him from returning to Russia. 90 years later the Kremlin is still banning those who reveal the truth.
Stalin’s Man at the New York Times A film explores the monstrous Soviet horror and the cover-up by a Pulitzer winner
Actor Peter Sarsgaard at a press conference for "Mr. Jones". Mr. Sarsgaard plays communist liar and New York Times Pulitzer winner Walter Duranty in the film. PHOTO: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES “The words ‘must see’ are grotesquely overused in movie reviews, but in this case, they are apt,” writes Francis Maier. He’s talking about the remarkable film, “Mr. Jones,” currently available on Amazon and other platforms. It is a story of Soviet communist horror and the New York Times writer who enabled it. “At a time when lying, bullying, and violence seem to be making a comeback in the vestments of progress, equality, and justice,” Mr. Maier notes that the film “is a useful lesson in consequences. It’s an opportunity to watch and learn.”
Joseph Mawle: seeing through Orwell’s eyes changed my views
Joseph Mawle plays George Orwell in Mr Jones, the new biopic of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones. He reveals how the role changed the way he looks at the world STEVEN MACKENZIE 6 Feb 2020 Joseph Mawle Orwell Signature Entertainment SHARE The Big Issue: Your pinned tweet is an Orwell quote: “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” What does that mean to you? Joseph Mawle: Facing uncomfortable truths. That’s something that Orwell was renowned for. There are ideas and there are facts, and they are different things. Sometimes the truth is uncomfortable, grizzly, mean, pessimistic, but it’s actually about looking at those facts rather than ideas.
“Mr. Jones” Remembers When Stalin Weaponized Famine
he Polish director Agnieszka Holland, now seventy-one, has toiled in many fields. “The Secret Garden” (1993) and “Washington Square” (1997) point to a predilection for bookish costume drama, yet Holland also made three episodes of “The Wire.” Her most tenacious work has centered on lone figures, as they seek to outwit, or simply to withstand, the weight of authoritarian threat. “Europa Europa” (1990) is based on the true story of a German Jewish boy who joined the Hitler Youth. “Burning Bush”
'Mr. Jones': the journalist who exposed Stalin's famine
Agniezska Holland's Berlinale film revisits the Holodomor, the man-made famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in 1933. Reporter Gareth Jones broke the story that Soviets tried to hide and other journalists denied. https://p.dw.com/p/3D6Zt A scene from the film Mr. Jones Image: Robert Palka/Film Produkcja ADVERTISEMENT The film opens on a pen of pigs noisily eating, surrounded by endless fields of wheat, symbolizing Ukraine's extremely fertile agriculture. By 1932-33 such backdrops had been replaced by violent impoverishment, as Ukrainians suffered from one of history's most disastrous man-made famines: Stalin turned Ukraine into the breadbasket of the
TRUTH & MOVIES
n 2006, a plaque was unveiled at Aberystwyth University for Gareth Jones, a Welsh journalist who died in relative obscurity at the age of 29. It was a small, defiant recognition of a man who had been shamed in his time for doing the right thing. Jones had written of Stanlinist inefficiency, particularly the Holodomor, the famine in Ukraine that killed up to 7.5 million people between 1932 and 1933, at a time when the US was preparing to cool relations with the USSR and conventional journalistic wisdom was to praise communism as imperfect but brave.
Annoy Putin—Watch This Movie At the screening of a film about Soviet horror, thugs arrive to intimidate free-thinking Russians.
In 2019 actor Peter Sarsgaard addresses a press conference for the film "Mr. Jones," in which he plays Stalinist liar Walter Duranty of the New York Times. PHOTO: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES Last year this column lauded the brilliant film “Mr. Jones,” which chronicles the Soviet Union’s mass starvation of Ukraine during the murderous reign of Stalin—and the 1930s media coverup led by Walter Duranty of the New York Times. A year later, the film hasn’t gotten any more popular among Russian enemies of liberty.