Armando Iannucci
- 60 years old
- Scottish
- Writer, director, producer and satirist
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Armando Iannucci on Brexit, Trump & The Death of Stalin
Armando Iannucci, Britain's satirist-in-chief, talks to Nick Mitchell about the similarities between Stalinist Russia and Trump's America, his new Dickens-inspired project, and the return of Alan Partridge.
Nick Mitchell, i Newspaper, 22nd February 2018Download: The Death of Stalin review
Armando Iannucci assembles a dream team for a nightmarish orgy of power-grabbing and back-stabbing.
Raphael Abraham, The Financial Times, 16th February 2018Russia's Death of Stalin ban unprecedented since USSR
On Tuesday, the Russian ministry of culture made a dramatic last-minute decision to withdraw the screening licence of Armando Iannucci's dark satire. That decision - the first ever of its kind in post-Soviet Russia - has raised fears about the return of censorship and the further rehabilitation of one of history's tyrants.
Oliver Carroll, The Independent, 25th January 2018Paddington 2 & Death Of Stalin receive BAFTA nominations
Paddington 2 and The Death Of Stalin have been nominated for two awards each at the BAFTA Film Awards 2018.
British Comedy Guide, 9th January 2018There were many frissons of delight in this documentary looking back at Partridge's legacy, not least the realisation that the humour has aged not one bit. It is the humour of desperation, awkwardness and of a sublime lack of self-knowledge: and Coogan does it even better than Cleese, and has done ever since (as we find out here, with so many sharp talking heads) he paused an early radio recording to nip off to Lilywhites and re-emerged in the studio emblazoned with Pringle's finest sports-casual. In that moment Partridge was born.
I suspect we need him now even more than then, as a Greek chorus to our desperately febrile times, and a reminder that we will not - do not deserve to - survive without the ability to laugh at and with ourselves.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 2nd January 2018Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How and Whom? review
A celebratory look at the 25-year career of Steve Coogan's creation revels in the pathos behind the sports-casual wear.
Emine Saner, The Guardian, 28th December 2017Review - Alan Partridge: Why When Where How and Whom?
Steve Coogan's monstrous comic icon is all set to return to the BBC next year with a new Brexit-related show, so as a nice curtain-raiser this documentary about Alan Partridge works as both a laugh-packed clips show and a history of the spoof celebrity who put Norwich on the map.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th December 2017The Death of Stalin picks up film awards
The Death of Stalin was one of the big winners at the British Independent Film Awards last night.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 11th December 2017Preview: Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How & Whom?
This richly textured account of the craft involved in that early development and the ongoing story of how, through Coogan's virtuoso performance, Alan remains one of the most beloved comic creations of the last few decades.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 11th December 2017Billy Connolly at 75 - comedians pay tribute
Billy Connolly at 75: Eddie Izzard, Armando Iannucci and more salute 'Beatles of comedy'.
Ben Williams, The Guardian, 24th November 2017