Oliver Stone‘s “The Putin Interviews,” debuting on Showtime on Monday, is getting just what the network expected: Scrutiny. “I am excited for it,” Vinnie Malhotra, the head of ...

Even before critics had a chance to see Oliver Stone's new documentary — a series of in-depth interviews with Russian President Vladimir Putin airing on Showtime there were plenty of signs ...

It’s Putin month in America. Oliver Stone’s four-part interview with the Russian leader probably won’t get much attention on the cable news networks this week, but if you believe it is wise ...

Last night, Showtime aired the first of a four-part series called The Putin Interviews, wherein controversial veteran director Oliver Stone conducts a series of extended interviews with Russian ...

It's 09:30 in the morning in Red Square and Oliver Stone is directing his subject ... They are filming The Putin Interviews, a four part one-on-one series of meetings with the Russian president.

It is a coup de grâce of American filmmaking that in “The Putin Interviews,” Oliver Stone first strongly recommends and then sits down to watch “Dr. Strangelove,” Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 ...

Based on the first half of “The Putin Interviews,” Showtime’s four-hour event tells us as much about Oliver Stone as it does Vladimir Putin. In the process, Stone’s earnestness opens the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 1. Russian President Vladimir Putin at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 1.

The most telling moment in The Putin Interviews, director Oliver Stone’s four-hour conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, recorded over the course of nearly two years, comes late in ...

Vladimir Putin and Oliver Stone. Photo: Komandir/Courtesy of SHOWTIME Starting tonight and continuing through Thursday, June 15, Showtime will air The Putin Interviews, a series of conversations ...

“Every time I talk to Oliver, he says he’s off to see Putin,” said a friend of the filmmaker. Another source added that Stone attended ... “I would interview [Putin] to show the point ...