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How Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie was received

2026 · Alex Gibney · Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie on Sightlines

Did you know? Gibney built the film partly from home video of Rushdie's recovery shot by his wife, the poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths — footage no news crew ever had. It premiered at Sundance in January 2026, and both Rushdie and Griffiths came to Park City for it.

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