The Year of Living Dangerously

Image   Weir creates a gripping political thriller set in the vibrant and turbulent Jakarta of 1965. With a screenplay co-written by Australian author Christopher Koch, the film explores historical culture clashes and questions about the role of journalism in shaping reality. Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver are electrifying in their starring roles as reporter Guy Hamilton and British diplomat Jill Bryant, who f…

Hollywood created impression of becoming “woke” recently, especially in issues of gender and sexuality. This impression, like many others related to American film industry, is wrong. Very good example of unorthodox thinking in these matters might be found many decades ago, when Linda Hunt became the first actress to win an Oscar for playing a male (and the only one for playing biologically male or cisgender) charact…