Recently I had the pleasure of pre-screening Coup 53, a documentary directed by Taghi Amirani, edited by Walter Murch, and featuring a brilliant character reenactment by none other than Ralph Fiennes himself, who is somewhat of a legend in the film world (he played Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter, for instance). This film was a revelatory masterpiece covering the 1953 CIA + MI6 staged coup in Iran that overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. This story blew the doors off my mind and taught me so much that I – shamefully – did not even know about the…