Steve Bannon, in His $1,400 Hotel Suite, Rails Against the 'Elite'
Bannon slams the McCains, defends Milo, and plays dumb about the alt-right.
Marlow Stern
09.05.18 8:19 PM ET
VENICE, Italy—Those who loudly objected to Steve Bannon’s scheduled appearance at The New Yorker Festival, from writer Roxane Gay to comedy god Judd Apatow, are not going to be thrilled with Errol Morris’ new film.
Titled American Dharma, the renowned filmmaker’s documentary consists of a lengthy sit-down interview between Morris and Bannon, tracing the latter’s journey to the Trump White House, with stops at Wall Street, Hollywood, and Breitbart along the way. Bannon’s saga—and so-called economic populist mission—is articulated through the prism of classical Hollywood cinema, including perhaps his favorite film, the World War II drama Twelve O’Clock High. Unlike Morris’ previous political docu-subjects, Robert McNamara in The Fog of War and Donald Rumsfeld in The Unknown Known, Bannon was not subjected to the Interrotron; rather, the two cinephiles are seated across the table from each other in an airplane hangar.
That’s a far less glamorous setting than our tête-à-tête, which took place inside the self-styled man-of-the-people’s luxury suite at Gritti Palace, a five-star hotel on Venice’s Grand Canal where rooms cost a minimum of $1,400 a night during the Venice Film Festival, the site of Dharma’s premiere.
“It never gave me the impression of being this gotcha film,” Bannon says of Dharma.
He’s right. Despite subjecting Bannon to 18 hours of interviews over three days, Morris mostly cedes the floor to a man whom many have branded a “white nationalist,” granting him a big ol’ platform to preach his controversial doctrine, one that is spreading like wildfire across Europe.
“Did I struggle with the question?” Morris said of whether he should make a film about Bannon. “The answer is yes. If the question is, am I still struggling with it? The answer would be yes.”
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Bitch about the Elite while staying in an elitist hotel.
Real smart, Stevie!
