As it has done in the past, the New York Times offered a great collection of conversations with directors this year, as the Anatomy of a Scene series gave the directors of many films a chance to dissect their approaches to major scenes in films such as Birdman, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Interstellar,…
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Jon Stewart of The Daily Show writes and directs Rosewater, which tells the story of Iranian-born Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari, who was arrested for espionage while covering the Iranian elections in 2009. He was held for 118 days, during which Bahari persistently interrogated by a man who had "proof" of Bahari's bad intentions via the journalist's…
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See the first Rosewater images, starring Gael Garcia Bernal as journalist Maziar Bahari. The fact-based drama marks Jon Stewart's directorial debut.
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Open Road has announced the Rosewater release date. Jon Stewart's directorial debut stars Gael Garcia Bernal as a journalist imprisoned in Iran.
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It's that time of the year, when the Toronto Film Festival begins to announce its giant movie line-up. In so doing, the film calendar formally begins the transition from summer to fall, as the more serious films of the festival circuit approach their debuts. Foxcatcher (above; trailer here) will show up, as will the Reese…
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2013 was an amazing year for movies. There are still a couple big films from late in the year that I haven't yet seen (my second cross-country move in the span of a year, left me scrambling to stay current for the year's final quarter) and yet I've still got a list of favorite 2013…
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Fans of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart were met with a decidedly different show Thursday night. It was Stewart's final show before he leaves for the summer to helm his first film, Rosewater. He'll return to his award-winning Comedy Central news show in September. Before leaving, Stewart laid out exactly how the film came about. He showed the initial…
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Later this year, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart will take a break from the show to direct his first film, Rosewater. The movie is a fictionalized account of journalist Maziar Bahari's experience in an Iranian prison, where he was held for almost three months on suspicion of spying. Now Gael Garcia Bernal has been…
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Jon Stewart is taking the summer off from The Daily Show, leaving the comedy newscast in the capable hands of John Oliver for eight of the twelve weeks Stewart will be away. There's good reason for the host's break from the show, however: he's doing to direct his first feature film. In 2011 Stewart announced…
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