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Rosewater Is a Dark Film, But Director Jon Stewart Still Finds Humor Within

Rahsheeda Ali | November 12, 2014 3:15 pm

Comedian Jon Stewart’s directorial debut his theaters this Friday. Rosewater tells the report of journalist Maziar Bahari, a London-based Newsweek and BBC reporter imprisoned after casing Iran’s 2009 post-election protests. Bahari (played by Gael Garcia Bernal) grew up in Iran, and was accused of being a spy and was detained and beaten for 118…

Still The Enemy Within

Thirty years on, the 1984 miners’ strike remains a watershed in modern British history. Owen Gower’s impassioned doc revisits it via the men on the picket line, plus the women, students and gay activists (neatly intersecting with recent Brit-com Pride) who supported them. With the regime confined to archive footage, this is unashamedly partisan, yet the film’s strength lies in giving voice…