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== Release ==
== Release ==
''White Noise'' premiered at [[AFI Docs]] on June 20, 2020.<ref name=atlantic/> [[IndieWire]] highlighted it as one of the 10 most interesting films in the line-up.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/afi-docs-2020-most-anticipated-films/|title=AFI Docs 2020: 10 of the Most Exciting Films in This Year’s Lineup|last=Kohn|first=Eric|work=[[IndieWire]]|date=June 16, 2020|accessdate=July 30, 2020}}</ref> The film had its international premiere at [[International_Documentary_Film_Festival_Amsterdam|IDFA]] in November 2020. <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/e006e689-0fc7-4012-b171-96d1e3c75ee7/white-noise}}</ref>
''White Noise'' premiered at [[AFI Docs]] on June 20, 2020.<ref name=atlantic/> [[IndieWire]] highlighted it as one of the 10 most interesting films in the line-up.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/afi-docs-2020-most-anticipated-films/|title=AFI Docs 2020: 10 of the Most Exciting Films in This Year’s Lineup|last=Kohn|first=Eric|work=[[IndieWire]]|date=June 16, 2020|accessdate=July 30, 2020}}</ref> The film had its international premiere at [[International_Documentary_Film_Festival_Amsterdam|IDFA]] in November 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/e006e689-0fc7-4012-b171-96d1e3c75ee7/white-noise}}</ref>


== Reception ==
== Reception ==

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White Noise
Film poster
Directed byDaniel Lombroso
Produced byKasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg
CinematographyDaniel Lombroso
Edited byCarlos Rojas Felice
Music byGil Talmi
Production
company
Release date
  • June 20, 2020 (2020-06-20) (AFI Docs)
Running time
94 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States[1]
LanguageEnglish

White Noise is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Daniel Lombroso. The film covers three figures in the alt-right movement: Richard B. Spencer, Mike Cernovich, and Lauren Southern.

Interviews

Production

White Noise is the first full-length documentary produced by The Atlantic. Daniel Lombroso, the director, focused on the alt-right after the 2016 United States presidential election. One of his interests was answering the question, "What made white-power ideology so intoxicating, especially among my generation?"[4] Part of his interest in the topic came from having grandparents who survived of the Holocaust.[4] Lombroso proposed documentary coverage about the alt-right movement to The Atlantic. After the Unite the Right rally, a full-length documentary was green-lit, and Lombroso said he worked "almost exclusively" on White Noise after 2017. Lombroso had done prior documentary shorts on the alt-right, which he used to build further connections to alt-right activists. Lombroso focused on the three people he identified as the most influential, then persistently worked to get revealing interviews with them.[5]

Release

White Noise premiered at AFI Docs on June 20, 2020.[4] IndieWire highlighted it as one of the 10 most interesting films in the line-up.[6] The film had its international premiere at IDFA in November 2020.[7]

Reception

Writing for Variety Owen Gleiberman called White Noise a "lively and disturbing documentary" that exposes alt-right celebrities as "deeply shallow and self-deluded hypocrites".[2] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film "sheds a much-needed spotlight" on its subjects.[3] Chris Barsanti of The Playlist gave the film an "A," saying that it "reveals the grift behind the genocidal rhetoric" of the alt-right. [8] Peter Keough of The Boston Globe called the film "fascinating, outrageous, and disturbing."[9] Eric Kohn of IndieWire said that White Noise is "the scariest documentary of 2020."[10] In an interview with the director, Vox's chief film critic Alissa Wilkinson said that the film is "excellent"[11] and "far more engaging and smart than most journalistic profiles of each of these people." [12]

On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 88% based on 25 reviews.[13] On Metacritic, the film holds a 77% percent score, signifying "favorable reviews."[14]

References

  1. ^ a b "White Noise". AFI Docs. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Gleiberman, Owen (July 10, 2020). "White Noise: Film Review". Variety. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Scheck, Frank (June 24, 2020). "White Noise: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c Lombroso, Daniel (June 11, 2020). "Four Years Embedded With the Alt-Right". The Atlantic. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  5. ^ Wissot, Lauren (June 18, 2020). ""This Whole Movement is about Performance": Daniel Lombroso on his Alt-Right Doc White Noise". Filmmaker. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  6. ^ Kohn, Eric (June 16, 2020). "AFI Docs 2020: 10 of the Most Exciting Films in This Year's Lineup". IndieWire. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  7. ^ https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/e006e689-0fc7-4012-b171-96d1e3c75ee7/white-noise. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ^ Barsanti, Chris (June 20, 2020). "Alt-Right Documentary 'White Noise' Reveals the Grift Behind the Genocidal Rhetoric [AFI DOCS Festival Review]". The Playlist. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  9. ^ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/10/15/arts/focus-far-right-stuff/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ^ https://www.indiewire.com/2020/10/white-noise-review-alt-right-1234594140/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. ^ https://www.vox.com/culture/21530505/white-noise-interview-alt-right-cernovich-spencer-southern. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ^ https://www.vox.com/culture/21528751/borat-2-subsequent-moviefilm-rudy-giuliani-review-cohen-white-noise. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. ^ "White Noise (2020)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  14. ^ https://www.metacritic.com/movie/white-noise-2020. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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