Filmmaker Paul Greengrass on rage, rebellion and ‘The Uprising’

Paul Greengrass’ new film, The Uprising , stars Andrew Garfield as a 14th-century peasant who, in the wake of the Plague, leads a revolt against the king. It's a history Greengrass grew up learning, and now sees parallels with Covid and Jan 6th. “People were left numb, and then this gathering rage …defenseless, and then suddenly you had this enormous rebellion,” he tells Tonya Mosley.

Greengrass also reflects on his movie United 93 , 25 years after the Sept. 11 attacks. Film critic Justin Chang reviews the new drama Filipiñana.

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