Joseph Gordon-Levitt has only played one other real life character on film. That was Robert Lincoln in Lincoln, who was gone long before we had film and audio of him to compare to his performance. Edward Snowden has been public in our lifetime, and as recently as the present. Gordon-Levitt plays Edward Snowden in the […]
The Edward Snowden story is full of real life characters beyond Snowden himself. Filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald are characters in the movie played by Melissa Leo and Zachary Quinto respectively. Snowden’s longtime and current girlfriend Lindsay Mills is also a prominent figure in the story, which covers the years from 2004 to […]
“Please say something strong,” Oliver Stone implored us at the end of a roundtable interview for his new movie Snowden. Stone has long been a political filmmaker with obvious examples like JFK, Nixon and W. but also in his approaches to he media in Natural Born Killers, finance in Wall Street and war stories like […]