Director of COUP 53 Edited by WALTER MURCH, Featuring RALPH FIENNES 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. TED Senior Fellow

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Walter Murch at St Mary’s Church in Primrose Hill London 4th June 7pm Tickets eventbrite.co.uk/e/phls-walt…
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New @Coup53 poster for @SBIFF screenings on 6 and 8 February with Walter Murch and me. COUP 53 featuring @mrralphfiennes 100% Fresh on @RottenTomatoes
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And - disclaimer! - I like James Harding & a big dose of energy, strategy & judicious investment is *exactly* what @ObserverUK needs. But after 2 weeks of meetings with 30+ @ObserverUK journalists no-one is any clearer about @Tortoises's opaque finances, business plan, or what happens when this £ runs out, possibly within 2 years. 11/ pressgazette.co.uk/news/who-…
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Incredible animated sequence from “Coup 53” directed by Martyn Pick The feature length film directed by Taghi Amirani and co-written by Walter Murch The dynamic handheld camerawork in this is so exciting! It gives a real documentary style that’s difficult to create in animation
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Walter Murch in conversation about The Conversation at @ThePCCLondon tonight.
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David Cameron: Iran attacking Israel was "reckless" Journalist: What would Britain do if our consulate was flattened? David Cameron: Well, w-we would take very strong action... Journalist: Iran would say that's what they did...
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It was great pleasure for me when I discovered Ariel watched this wonderful documentary and how much we both like it.
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Ariel Dorfman interviewed by @sofiamay68 for @Hammihanonline
گفت‌وگوی اختصاصی «صوفیا نصراللهی» با «آریل دورفمن» | روزنامه‌ی هم‌میهن 𒊹ناامید نشوید. آن‌هایی که ستم می‌کنند از آن چیزی که هستید، از کشوری که رویایش را دارید، می‌ترسند. تکرار می‌کنم؛ ناامید نشوید. فضاهای کوچکی از امید می‌توانند شبیه موج‌هایی کوچک در یک دریاچه رشد کنند.
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Interview with Ariel Dorfman
گفت‌وگوی اختصاصی «صوفیا نصراللهی» با «آریل دورفمن» | روزنامه‌ی هم‌میهن 𒊹ناامید نشوید. آن‌هایی که ستم می‌کنند از آن چیزی که هستید، از کشوری که رویایش را دارید، می‌ترسند. تکرار می‌کنم؛ ناامید نشوید. فضاهای کوچکی از امید می‌توانند شبیه موج‌هایی کوچک در یک دریاچه رشد کنند.
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“a work of art and a masterpiece of political intervention”, “a thriller that had me on the edge of my seat”, “beyond extraordinary” - Ariel Dorfman @Coup53 @tagz23
گفت‌وگوی اختصاصی «صوفیا نصراللهی» با «آریل دورفمن» | روزنامه‌ی هم‌میهن 𒊹ناامید نشوید. آن‌هایی که ستم می‌کنند از آن چیزی که هستید، از کشوری که رویایش را دارید، می‌ترسند. تکرار می‌کنم؛ ناامید نشوید. فضاهای کوچکی از امید می‌توانند شبیه موج‌هایی کوچک در یک دریاچه رشد کنند.
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Walter Murch 12pm GMT BBC Radio 3 3 December
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@TEDFellow Taghi Amirani @tagz23 made a film about full story of the 1953 coup in Iran called @Coup53. Co-written and edited by three time @TheAcademy Award winner and three time @BAFTA winner Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The English Patient, The Godfather II) Amirani launched Coup 53 in a @TEDTalks at TEDGlobal2012 in Edinburgh. On completion he unvelied the film at in April 2019 in a TED talk at TED2019 in Vancouver. COUP 53 went onto its world premiere at Telluride Film Festival in August 2019. It is 100% certified Fresh on @RottenTomatoes rottentomatoes.com/m/coup_53 Here is some of its press The film’s editor is Walter Murch, who worked on “The Conversation” and “The Godfather: Part II”  (both 1974) so there’s not much that he doesn’t know about conspiracy — how it leaks into a movie like the smell of drains. Anthony Lane – The New Yorker It is without question one of the greatest of all documentaries. Apart from its importance as a revelatory history lesson, it’s a masterpiece of humanity, thoroughness and consummate film craft. Mike Leigh - Winner of the Palme d'Or This powerful and authoritative documentary by the Iranian filmmaker Taghi Amirani is as gripping as any thriller Peter Bradshaw – The Guardian One of the best documentaries of recent years. Michael Moore Ralph Fiennes appears, lending a wry le Carré air to proceedings as an enigmatic MI6 agent with an explosive testimony. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh - The Times Amazing. Beautifully done. Clever use of archive. Unique. - Oliver Stone A maddening, gripping portrait of how imperialism works Coup 53 is almost as concerned with the film-making process – the lists, the dead ends, the searching – as much as it is with political history Tara Brady – The Irish Times A labour of love, the film is premium detective work. With admirable tenacity and care, Amirani has dragged official secrets back into the light Tim Robey – The Daily Telegraph This is big. This is going to be big. Werner Herzog It’s like taking a swim in John le Carré’s brain Dave Calhoun - Time Out Extraordinary. Errol Morris As compelling as a John le Carré novel or a Costa-Gavras classic Allen Hunter - Screen Daily Has the air of something that grew from an impudent home movie into a magnum opus Todd McCarthy - Hollywood Reporter Both as a detective story and as a deep dive into a world event whose consequences linger, it is bracing, absorbing filmmaking Ben Kenigsberg - New York Times It has a bit of “All the President’s Men” about it Ian Freer - EMPIRE Simply great storytelling, full stop. Anne Hornaday - Washington Post apnews.com/article/iran-1953…
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