#reza sixo safai

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Molti vedono nello sport Crush il rifiuto della storia di Apple e l’antitesi di 1984con cui venne lanciato il Mac. In quel caso la protagonista distruggeva la disumanità di un futuro distopico, l’uomo macchina. Qui (dicono i critici) si esalta la distruzione di quel che fa di noi esseri umano e si introduce un futuro distopico dove rinunciamo alla nostra umanità.

Tra i tanti che hanno preso molto seriamente e molto negativamente il filmato e i (pochi) che l’hanno apprezzato, c’è anche chi, come l’attore e autore Iraniano-americano Reza Sixo Safai, ne approfitta per fare un po’ di ironia che però diventa un suggerimento interessante: riprodurre al rovescio il filmato.

L’effetto con cui si vede nascere da un iPad quel che invece nello spot Apple viene distrutto da iPad è in un tempo emozionante e potentemente simbolico.

A condire il tutto la variazione della colonna sonora.

Con una idea altrettanto geniale, benché più sottile e meno intuitiva della riproduzione al contrario del filmato, la canzone All I Ever Need Is You di Cher, scelta da Apple, viene sostituita da I Got You Babe sempre di Cher.

Nel primo brano, iPad viene esaltato come oggetto capace di rendere inutile tutto il resto, nel secondo si parla della forza che nasce dalla capacità di unire le forze per andare più lontano, superando ogni prova.

(via I Fixed Apple’s Ad - YouTube e https://www.macitynet.it/lo-spot-di-ipad-pro-che-tutti-odiano-aggiustato-con-un-click/)

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The Furor and How One Designer Can Make A Difference

To catch you up, you might have missed 🔗 📼 this video .. you can see it at the bottom of the page.

When I first saw it, I liked the visual effect - but really - not the message. As I wrote over on 🔗 John’s blog

I saw that vid .. kinda like it .. BUT .. I dunno … destroy everything physical, crush it to nothing ?

Unbeknownst to this bear - a lot of people were of the same opinion. A ‘furor’ indeed.

Anyway, in the comments thread on John’s blog he highlighted 🔗this ’twitter post’ from Reza Sixo Safai. This is the 🔗 tweet

Now on occasions I do pop out from under my rock and have noticed that these days Twitter isn’t a very nice place to go anymore. So - on behalf of you dear reader, I donned my protective suit, sprayed myself from top to bottom, grabbed the video and behold …. With all and every credit to Reza. ’Twitter’ is the only reaosin I pulled it to be here - because Twitter, so all can view it - and those with protective clothing can pop over and see fro themselves.

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My comment cannot be better than this one ///

This is unironically one of the cleverest creative feats I have ever seen. To take a widely-publicized, universally panned ad and then turning it into the exact ad that it should have been, communicating the desired message 10000x better.

💬 Amal Dorai

[byneddiedingo]

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014)

Cast: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh, Mozhan Marnò, Dominic Rains, Rome Shadanloo, Milad Eghbali, Reza Sixo Safai, Masuka the Cat. Screenplay: Ana Lily Amirpour. Cinematography: Lyle Vincent. Production design: Sergio De La Vega. Film editing: Alex O’Flinn. Music: Bei Ru.

𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔯𝔱𝔶-𝔒𝔫𝔢 𝔇𝔞𝔶𝔰 𝔬𝔣 ℌ𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔬𝔯 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟺

You're sad. You don't remember what you want. You don't remember wanting. It passed long ago. And nothing ever changes.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) dir. Ana Lily Amirpour

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 4 / 10

Título Original: Prisoners of the Ghostland

Año:  2021

Duración: 103 min

País: Japón

Director: Sion Sono

Guion: Aaron Hendry, Reza Sixo Safai

Música: Joseph Trapanese

Fotografía: Souhei Tanigawa

Reparto: Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Bill Moseley, Nick Cassavetes, Tak Sakaguchi, Yuzuka Nakaya, Young Dais, Lorena Kotô, Canon Nawata, Jai West, Narisa Suzuki, Takato Yonemoto, Yurino, Shinichiro Shimizu, Grace Santos, Jeffrey Rowe, Saki Ohwada, Charles Glover, Teruaki Ogawa, Christina Virzi

Productora: Coproducción Japón-Estados Unidos; Eleven Arts, Untitled Entertainment, XYZ Films, Patriot Pictures, Baked Studios, Boos Boos Bang Bang, RLJE Films, Saturn Films

Género: Horror; Thriller; Fantasy

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6372694/

TRAILER:

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Prisoners of the Ghostland trailer released

Prisoners of the Ghostland trailer released

Prisoners of the Ghostland is directed by Sion Sono, from a script by Aaron Hendry and Reza Sixo Safai. It stars Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Nick Cassavetes, Ed Skrein, Bill Moseley, Yuzuka Nakaya, and Tak Sakaguchi. A notorious criminal, Hero (Nicolas Cage), is sent to rescue the governor’s daughter, who has disappeared into a dark supernatural universe. To escape the nightmare world, Hero…

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PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND

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Circumstance (2011)

directed by Maryam Keshavarz

A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager’s growing sexual rebellion and her brother’s newfound conservatism.

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[girlstillbreathing]

Circumstance (2011 Film)

“Let no love fall victim to circumstance.”

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014)

Cast: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh, Mozhan Marnò, Dominic Rains, Rome Shadanloo, Milad Eghbali, Reza Sixo Safai, Masuka the Cat. Screenplay: Ana Lily Amirpour. Cinematography: Lyle Vincent. Production design: Sergio De La Vega. Film editing: Alex O’Flinn. Music: Bei Ru.

Girls probably shouldn't walk home alone at night unless they're chador-wearing vampires who ride skateboards. That seems to be the major point made by Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home at Night. The Girl (Sheila Vand) has no name that we know of, and she doesn't seem to go out in the daytime, but we learn that she's a vampire when she bites off the finger of and then desanguinates Saeed (Dominic Rains), a sleaze, a pusher, and a pimp. Saeed has earlier confiscated a 1957 Ford Thunderbird from Arash (Arash Marandi) as payment for debts he incurred trying to support his junkie father, Hossein (Marshall Manesh). Arash's attempt to retrieve his car brings him into contact with the Girl. What little suspense the film generates lies in how the relationship between Arash and the Girl will progress. Will he become her victim, as Saeed, a homeless man, and eventually Arash's father do? Or will they find some other way of connecting? More droll than scary, A Girl Walks Home at Night takes place in Iran's imaginary Bad City, which seems a lot like Southern California except that everyone speaks Persian and it's more thinly populated. We meet some other characters in the course of the film, including a streetwalker and an urchin, but the most memorable is probably the cat Arash adopts, which eventually winds up with the Girl, to Arash's surprise. Almost everything about this film, Amirpour's first feature, defies summary, except to note that it's extraordinarily original, confidently conceived and directed, sometimes very funny, and its black-and-white cinematography is often quite beautiful. 

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

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Prisoners of the Ghostland - Japan | USA, 2019

Prisoners of the Ghostland – Japan | USA, 2019

Prisoners of the Ghostland is a 2019 Japanese-American supernatural action horror feature film directed by Sion Sono (Tokyo Vampire Hotel TV series; Exte: Hair Extensions; Strange Circus; Suicide Club) from a screenplay written by Aaron Hendry (actor in Followers; Michael Jackson’s Halloween; Teen Wolf TV series; Bedeviled) and Reza Sixo Safai (actor in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night). The…

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Austin Found (2017) Official Trailer Trailer for Austin Found, starring Linda Cardellini, Skeet Ulrich, Craig Robinson, Kristen Schaal and Ursula Parker.

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For her Daughter, For the Love, But mostly for the Money watch Kidnapping Comedy 'Austin Found' (Trailer)

For her Daughter, For the Love, But mostly for the Money watch Kidnapping Comedy ‘Austin Found’ (Trailer)

    “Our darling daughter was kidnapped from our home in the middle of the night. We just want our baby back.” In ‘Austin Found’ Leanne Miller (Linda Cardellini) a 36-year-old wife and mother is fed up with her mundane lifestyle so she hatches a scheme to make her family instant celebrities.

“Please know what I did I did for all of our sakes and I’m also very sorry for what I’m about to do now.”

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Three LGTB films that go behind the curtain of orthodox religious communities

I had the pleasure (and pain) to watch three LGBT films that take us behind the curtain of orthodox religious communities. I wanted to understand the severe difficulty that LGTB people experience from members of their own community.

The first film is about a man who finds love with another man (homosexuality is never mentioned) in an ultra-orthodox community in Jerusalem.  The second is about a woman who is a member of an orthodox community in London who knows she is gay but has married and has tried to remain faithful to her husband and religion. The third film shows us Iran, where two young women (teens) fall in love but their love is thwarted by religious restrictions that dominate all parts of their lives. 

Orthodoxy is a serious business in all three and is heavily policed. No one is allowed to identify as gay, even in their own minds. The role of women (and men) is strictly proscribed. This not only hurts the individual, but their spouses, parents, children and other loved ones. I don’t think it is a spoiler to say that the protagonists in all three films find it impossible to reconcile being gay and orthodox and therefore are forced to make difficult choices that tear at our hearts. 

1. Eyes Wide Open (2009)

A married, Orthodox, Jerusalem butcher and Jewish father of four falls in love with his handsome, 22-year-old male apprentice, triggering the suspicions of his wife and the disapproval of his Orthodox community.  Director: Haim Tabakman; Writer: Merav Doster (screenplay and story); Stars: Zohar Shtrauss, Ran Danker, and Tinkerbell (IMDB)

2. Disobedience (2017)

A woman returns to her Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her for her attraction to a female childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality. Director: Sebastián Lelio; Writers: Sebastián Lelio, Rebecca Lenkiewicz; Stars: Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola (IMDB)

3. Circumstance (2011)

An Iranian teenager (Nikohl Boosheri) enters a lesbian relationship, while her brother (Reza Sixo Safai) becomes dangerously obsessed with Islamic fundamentalism. Director: Maryam Keshavarz  Keshavarz shot the film in Lebanon, and even there she had to stretch the bounds of what was acceptable. (New York Times Film Review)