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The Daily Show host and Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari discuss the story behind Stewart's debut feature Rosewater, which tells the true story of Bahari's five-month imprisonment in Iran after his appearance on Stewart's show.
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections
for Newsweek. One of the few reporters
living there with access to US media, he
also appeared on The Daily Show with Jon
Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian
Jason Jones. The interview was intended
as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got
the joke they didn't like it — and that bit of
comedy would come back to haunt Bahari
when he was rousted from his family home
and thrown into prison.
In a remarkable stroke, Stewart himself took up Bahari's story. Making his directorial debut, the iconic media satirist crafts Rosewater as a chronicle of journalism in conflict with political power, seen through the prism of memory. Bahari's interrogator wears a strong rosewater scent that immediately reminds him of his childhood. Isolated in prison, he finds refuge in recollections of Leonard Cohen music and conversations with his politically engaged father.
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'Adult Beginners'
Out of a job after a disastrous product launch, a
big-city yuppie retreats to his suburban childhood home, in this
heart-warming and hilarious film about crashing hard, coming home and
waking up.
Academy Award-nominated producer Ross
Katz (In the Bedroom, Lost in Translation)
makes his feature directorial debut with this
heartwarming and hilarious film (whose
executive producers include indie kings
Jay and Mark Duplass) about crashing hard,
coming home and waking up.
Adult Beginners begins with one yuppie's disaster. On the eve of the product launch designed to shoot his career into the stratosphere, Jake (Nick Kroll) discovers that, because of a single misstep, his life has plummeted into the dirt. Having lost his girlfriend, his credibility, and over $2.5 million in investor money, Jake retreats to the one place where he's always welcome: his childhood home, which is now occupied by his pregnant sister Justine (Rose Byrne, also appearing at the Festival in This is Where I Leave You), her husband Danny (Bobby Cannavale), and their three-year-old son, Teddy. Justine and Danny agree that Jake can stay as long as he wants — so long as he agrees to look after Teddy on the weekdays.
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