CRISIS (2021) ★★★✮☆
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CRISIS (2021) ★★★✮☆
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Arbitrage, 2012
Crisis (2021)
Directed by Nicholas Jarecki
Cinematography by Nicolas Bolduc
E! News just published another article in covert support of Armie Hammer
Yesterday, E! News published an interview with Paige Lorenze. The framing of the article was so abysmal—so clearly an attempt to whitewash AH's alleged depravity—it led many in this sub to wonder if the media organization was in the tank for the actor.
I regret to inform you that E! News just published another shitshow that lends credence to this theory. (Credit to @switch_ga over at instagram for spotting this.)
The article: Watch Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer take on the opioid epidemic in exclusive Crisis trailer premiere
Exclusive!
I wonder what sleazy quid-pro-quo netted E! this tantalizing 'exclusive' 🤔
A couple of words on the upstanding citizens involved with this production:
Here is a picture of the director, Nicholas Jarecki, with close family friend Ghislaine Maxwell.
If you think I'm kidding about the "close family friend" part, check out sweet Nicky and his dad Henry in the Jeffrey Epstein flight logs.
Cozy!
(I'm too lazy to go through all 73 pages of the logs—the screenshot provided here comes from page 11. If you're curious about whether Nicholas Jarecki appears more than once in the manifests of the Lolita Express, you can consult one of the original court documents here. As AH would say, "Happy hunting!")
If you still think I'm making a mountain out of a molehill, consider the findings of an investigation commissioned by Harvard into Epstein's relationship with several skeezy (and potentially criminal) professors at the university.
The 2020 Harvard report revealed that, long after Epstein had been barred from campus and from making donations to a select group of professors, the dead pedophile continued to pour money into the coffers of his intellectual buddies. He hid this fact from the university by making the donations through his associate Leon Black, a hedge funder, and something called the Falconwood Foundation.
The Falconwood Foundation, it turns out, was, up until recently, the name of the Jarecki family charity. (The link is to a conservative organization, but the information provided is solid and clearly presented. I opted for this instead of linking to 990 tax forms.)
Okay, but most of the compromising material so far pertains to Nicholas Jarecki's dad, Henry. Sins of the father and all that. Is there anything else that's sketchy about the people involved in this movie?
Why, I'm so glad you asked!
Nicholas Jarecki's upcoming movie, Crisis, was financed by a man named Mohammed al Turki. His name keeps cropping up in blind items accusing him of being a pimp and a svengali.
Those are merely allegations. What is proven, though, is that al Turki was behind that obscene influencer junket to Saudi Arabia in December 2019. You know the one: the 'music festival' that served as a failed attempt to whitewash Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses—including the time Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman instructed his henchmen to dismember a journalist.
Speaking of dismemberment, I wonder what convinced golden boy Armie Hammer to sign up for the trip and post so glowingly about it on social media.
AH was so excited about traveling to the Saudi kingdom that he took his faithful crony Tyler Ramsey along for the ride. (The thing I love most about that picture, by the way, is it inadvertently reveals that the then-still-married Armie took off his wedding ring to go on a trip to the other side of a world mere days before Christmas. Dad of the year!)
Ed Westwick was there too. I wonder if he and Armie bonded over their alleged fondness for raping.
But anyway, back to Crisis, a movie conceptualized and directed by Nicholas Jarecki. It's not the first of Jarecki's projects to be financed by al Turki. That distinction probably goes to 2012's Arbitrage, which—fun fact!—guest-starred Nate Parker. It's quite the professional network we got here.
Parker, if you didn't know, would go on to direct Birth of a Nation, starring him and Armie Hammer. The director's career was on the up-and-up until it took a swift nosedive when revelations emerged that Parker and the movie's screenwriter, Jean Celestin, were once accused of gang-raping a young woman. The alleged victim eventually died by suicide. The real victim, however, was Armie Hammer, because this whole unfortunate situation meant he lost out on an Oscar nomination.
A few days ago, I left this comment on Nick Jarecki's insta. He promptly deleted it.
In case you're wondering what my mention of a title change (from Dreamland to Crisis) is in reference to, you can read all about how Nicholas Jarecki, cinematic auteur, stole his movie's subject matter and title from an award-winning book by the incomparable Sam Quinones. It seems Jarecki missed the day in film school where they taught students that you're supposed to purchase the movie rights from authors if you want to cash in on their work.
Quinones trolled Jarecki so hard on Twitter that the beleaguered director was forced to change the title. Now, it seems, Jarecki and his backers are trying as hard as possible to push their movie out into the world despite the Armie Hammer-shaped PR nightmare on their hands. Crisis is set for release February 26.
The E! Entertainment Network, it seems, is trying to help the effort along.
But a word to the wise and the not-so-wise: the more my fellow journalists try to brush this horror show aside, the harder I'll work to expose their asses.
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ETA: original poster has now edited to correct the media source was Entertainment Weekly, and not E! News. (X)
Crisis Intersects Three Lives Plagued By Opiod Abuse
Star power times three puts opiod abuse center stage in Nicholas Jarecki's film #Crisis #opiods #podcast
When news hit that Michael Jackson had died from a Fentanyl overdose or when Prince was found in an elevator unconscious from the exact same drug, questions circled around doctors prescribing this drug and the ease at which it is readily available to not only celebrities, but housewives, teens or those seeking to cop a high by any means necessary. Opiod abuse is a constant, uncomfortable, and…
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“A crazy ensemble cast here with Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, Lily-Rose Depp, Luke Evans and @KidCudi, we predict that Nicholas Jarecki's Dreamland might shore up at Sundance. https://t.co/1LrXSt1cMz”
A crazy ensemble cast here with Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, Lily-Rose Depp, Luke Evans and @KidCudi, we predict that Nicholas Jarecki's Dreamland might shore up at Sundance.
https://twitter.com/ioncinema/status/1328744996292456448
courtney & [film producer] nicholas jarecki. they dated from 2015-2017.
Crikey! They never miss a chance to play up the boys "ship", do they?
It is all in the casting
With Call Be By Your Name being one of the most buzzed about films over the last few years, Timothée and Armie spent a lot of time together, both on set and on the exhaustive promotional campaign and awards season the film required. Even now after the film has been put to bed and lauded world over, the two continue to spend time together. Just last month, Armie's wife posted a picture of the pair posing in London.
The casting here proves to be a nice full circle for this Hollywood grouping. Lily-Rose and Timothée were romantically linked at the end of last year, having met on the set of the Netflix film, Kings. However, the internet's dream coupling haven't been spotted together publicly this side of the new year.