London photo: everyone wants to see Rosewater at LFF

Tue, Oct 14, 2014

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I wasn’t sure what sort of a draw Jon Stewart would be at the London Film Festival — I don’t get the sense that he’s very well known in the U.K. — but there was a huge mob of press at the press screening of his directorial debut Rosewater.

(LFF ends this weekend. I may have a few more reviews from the festival this week, but expect a cascade starting next week, after I have a chance to catch up on my sleep.)

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Bluejay

Fri, Oct 17, 2014 2:30am

So… does that mean Stewart *is* more well-known in the UK than expected? Or is it just that in a city the size of London, you can gather a crowd of fans for pretty much anything? Or that the press are more familiar with him than the general public?

MaryAnn Johanson

reply to Bluejay

Fri, Oct 17, 2014 12:39pm

I just don’t know. It could just be that all the LFF press screenings have been very busy. A better test would be how many tickets the public screenings of the film sold (which I have no way of knowing).