Democracy Dies in Doublethink

Friday, September 26 - Thursday, October 2, 2025

“Never forget that the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy.” – President Richard Nixon to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

“Ignorance is strength.” – 1984

In advance of the opening of Raoul Peck’s incisive new portrait ORWELL: 2+2=5, IFC Center presents two tales of deep state corruption and creeping authoritarianism.

First up is Michael Radford’s atmospheric and alarming adaptation of George Orwell’s classic allegory 1984. John Hurt stars as a worker living under Big Brother’s autocratic rule who dreams of a better life after falling in love with a beautiful mechanic (Suzanna Hamilton).

And as a tribute to Orwell’s work as a journalist, and to the late, great Robert Redford, we turn to a resistance story firmly rooted in our country’s recent history. In Alan J. Pakula’s masterful 1976 thriller ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN, Redford and Dustin Hoffman co-star as real-life Washington Post heroes Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, whose dogged determination to get the story behind a break-in at the Watergate Hotel toppled a president.

Catch 1984 and ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN at IFC Center September 26 – October 2, and remember that in the end, the truth will always win.

ORWELL: 2+2=5 opens at IFC Center on Friday, October 3.

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