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Suddenly Something Clicked - new book from Walter Murch published by @FaberBooks
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Walter Murch and @howardberry with @MoviolaTheMovie at @cinemathequefr on 13th June
@AgnesCPoirier
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Walter Murch at St Mary’s Church in Primrose Hill London
4th June 7pm
Tickets
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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.
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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
Walter Murch in conversation about The Conversation at @ThePCCLondon tonight.
Taghi Amirani retweeted
Replying to @tagz23
It was great pleasure for me when I discovered Ariel watched this wonderful documentary and how much we both like it.
Ariel Dorfman interviewed by @sofiamay68 for @Hammihanonline
Taghi Amirani retweeted
“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
This
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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
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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
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