"Our concern is the idea that the only answer is the one coming from the mouthpiece running the (Trump) administration and that there's this effort to sort of snuff out anything but that," Birnbaum said. The British novel was reprinted in January, decades after it was written, following the Trump administration's defense of "alternative facts," a term White House official Kellyanne Conway used during a dispute over the size of the crowd at Trump's inauguration.Īdam Birnbaum, director of Film Programming for the Avon Theatre Film Centre in Stamford, Connecticut, and co-organiser of the event, said Orwell's themes were just as relevant today as they were nearly 70 years ago. Nicolas Rapold, who helped organise the Lincoln Centre screening, said he expects at least 100 people to attend each of the three free screenings at the venue. "We think it makes a statement, going to see it again, and remind ourselves what happens when you slide off a slippery slope," Fliegner said. states on Tuesday were arranged to "take a stand for our most basic values: freedom of speech, respect for our fellow human beings, and the simple truth that there are no such things as 'alternative facts.'"Īt a packed afternoon screening of 1984 held at the Film Society at Lincoln Centre in Manhattan, New York resident Laura Fliegner was in attendance with her husband. Organisers the United State of Cinema said the screenings across 44 U.S.
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