{"id":2250361,"date":"2026-01-26T01:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2250361"},"modified":"2026-01-26T01:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:58:06","slug":"knife-the-attempted-murder-of-salman-rushdie-review-alex-gibneys-intimate-study-of-physical-and-spiritual-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/knife-the-attempted-murder-of-salman-rushdie-review-alex-gibneys-intimate-study-of-physical-and-spiritual-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie\u2019 Review: Alex Gibney\u2019s Intimate Study of Physical and Spiritual Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">One of the smartest choices of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0316795\/\">Alex Gibney<\/a>\u2019s affecting new doc, Knife: The Attempted Murder of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0750723\/\">Salman Rushdie<\/a>, is to withhold, almost to the end, footage of the shocking 2022 attack at an education institution in Chautauqua, New York, during which a 24-year-old assailant rushed the stage, stabbing the author of The Satanic Verses 15 times. By that point in this contemplative film, we have seen the vicious assault represented in animated line drawings and witnessed in distressing detail the awful aftermath, during which the gravely wounded Rushdie lay recovering in a Pennsylvania hospital.<\/p>\n<p>But nothing can prepare us for the horrific chaos of the attempted murder, with audience members, security and medics mobbing the stage to halt the attack and urgently tend to the victim. Nor can this clear-headed account of the ordeal and the sheer human resilience required to survive it \u2014 physically, psychologically, spiritually \u2014 prepare us for the understated&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the smartest choices of Alex Gibney\u2019s affecting new doc, Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, is to withhold, almost to the end, footage of the shocking 2022 attack at an education institution in Chautauqua, New York, during which a 24-year-old assailant rushed the stage, stabbing the author of The Satanic Verses 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2250362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2250361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018Knife-The-Attempted-Murder-of-Salman-Rushdie-Review-Alex-Gibneys.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250363,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250361\/revisions\/2250363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}