while putin behind the wheel as filmmaker oliver stone quizzes him on the fugitive edward snowden in a scene from his new documentary on the russian leader .
oliver stone ’s the putin interviews is not that documentary .
the putin interviews , a four - part series created from two years of conversations between oliver stone and putin , somehow manages to both spout the kremlin line and fall back on the laziest american clichés about russia .
putin interviews , ” oliver stone first strongly recommends and then sits down to watch “ dr. strangelove , ” stanley kubrick ’s 1964 comedic masterpiece about nuclear apocalypse , with russian president vladimir putin .
they ’re sending people like megyn kelly , a race - baiter who rode the wave of one semi - challenging debate question all the way to a cushy gig at nbc news , or oliver stone , a revisionist history buff who ’s spent the past few decades cozying up to dictators like fidel castro , hugo chavez , and putin .
the unusually smooth car journey through moscow ’s normally traffic - clogged streets is n’t the only strange moment in the putin interviews , the oscar - winning director ’s four - part documentary .
in the when america sends its people to interview vladimir putin , they ’re not sending their best .
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