{"id":6805,"date":"2016-05-20T23:09:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T15:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6805"},"modified":"2016-05-20T23:09:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T15:09:38","slug":"would-love-to-watchcritic-after-dark-taxi-jafar-panahi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/20\/would-love-to-watchcritic-after-dark-taxi-jafar-panahi\/","title":{"rendered":"Would Love To Watch::Critic After Dark: Taxi (Jafar Panahi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newwavefilms.co.uk\/assets\/1143\/TAXI_TEHRAN_quad.jpg?resize=525%2C394\" alt=\"Taxi Poster\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Self-reflexive metacinema is a common device in Iranian films; everyone from Abbas Kiarostami to Mohsen Makhmalbaf has dabbled in it, and Panahi&#8217;s own take is pretty good&#8211;The Mirror, about a young girl trying to make her way home who suddenly decides to quit the director&#8217;s film and make her own way home (think Shirley Temple walking off the set of\u00a0Wee Willie Winkie and you can imagine the consternation caused). In this film the meta-premise manages to keep us on our toes, trying to guess what is fiction and what is not. Along the way Panahi satirizes Iran&#8217;s political censorship apparatus; gives us a day-in-the-life snapshot of Tehran that also celebrates the people&#8217;s resiliency in the face of adversity (government oppression included); and does\u00a0it all\u00a0with a deft humorous touch&#8211;while under\u00a0threat of imprisonment, and in direct defiance of a filmmaking ban. If that&#8217;s not big brass balls (on a man with a perpetual grin and the kindliest eyes) I don&#8217;t know what is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/criticafterdark.blogspot.com\/2016\/04\/taxi-jafar-panahi.html\">Critic After Dark: Taxi (Jafar Panahi)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Self-reflexive metacinema is a common device in Iranian films; everyone from Abbas Kiarostami to Mohsen Makhmalbaf has dabbled in it, and Panahi&#8217;s own take is pretty good&#8211;The Mirror, about a young girl trying to make her way home who suddenly decides to quit the director&#8217;s film and make her own way home (think Shirley &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/20\/would-love-to-watchcritic-after-dark-taxi-jafar-panahi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Would Love To Watch::Critic After Dark: Taxi (Jafar Panahi)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}