The films of journalist Maziar Bahari are contrasted with Jon Stewart’s flawed Rosewater (Universal), including And Along Came a Spider (2003), Mohammad and the Matchmaker (2004), Targets: Reporters in Iraq (2005), An Iranian Odyssey: Mossadegh, Oil and the 1953 Coup (2010), and From Cyrus to Ahmadinejad: The Not So Secret Iran-Israel War (2012).
Tales of Rebel Pedagogues on Blu from Twilight Time: Evolutionists vs. Creationists in Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind (1960) + losing one’s ‘prime’ in Jay Presson Allen’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).
In Part 1 of this series on anti-nuclear dramas, three differing levels of British Bleakism: Raymond Briggs’ When the Wind Blows (1986) on Blu from Twilight Time, Mick Jackson’s Threads (1986), and Peter Watkins’ The War Game (1965).
Review of Göran Olsson’s Concerning Violence (2014), which begins its run at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema Friday February 27th.
Two tales of ghostly unrest now on Blu / DVD: Robert Wise’s film of Frank De Felitta’s Audrey Rose (on Blu from Twilight Time) + Carlos Mayolo’s eerie Bloody Flesh / Carne de tu carne (One 7 Movies).
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