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Director Michael Radford’s chilling adaptation of George Orwell’s classic dystopian sci-fi novel stars the late, great John Hurt as Winston Smith, a man tasked with rewriting history who rebels against the all-seeing totalitarian entity known as Big Brother by doing the most human thing of all—falling in love. When Winston is outed by a member of the Thought Police, he is taken to The Ministry of Love where the sadistic O’Brien (Richard Burton in his final film appearance) proceeds to torture, brainwash, and break his spirit in an attempt to make him swear his allegiance to the party. Though released in the titular year and sporting a synthpop soundtrack to rival all others by new wave titans Eurythmics, this prescient and bleak vision remains just as important and terrifying as Orwell intended. Remember . . . Big Brother is watching.

“This story is, of course, well known. 1984 must be one of the most widely read novels of our time. What is remarkable about the movie is how completely it satisfied my feelings about the book; the movie looks, feels, and almost tastes and smells like Orwell’s bleak and angry vision.” —Roger Ebert,Chicago Sun-Times