#StopExecutionsinIran: Hollywood against tyranny

Update on January, 9: Iranian director Jafar Panahi, imprisoned last July while protesting against the regime, will be the honorary president of the international jury of Bif&st 2023, which will take place in Bari (Italy) since 24 March to 1 April. “A precise choice by the director of Bif&st, Felice Laudadio – a note reads – in solidarity with the great director who with his masterpieces won countless awards at the Venice, Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, San Sebastian, Tokyo festivals, of which calls for his immediate release from prison, and in support of the Iranian people’s struggle against the vicious regime of the ayatollahs.” (⇐Ansa.it)

“Cate Blanchett, Jason Momoa, Samuel L. Jackson, Jada Pinkett Smith and Bryan Cranston are among more than 50 entertainment industry members publicly supporting calls to end Iran’s execution of protestors, jailed during the country’s 100 days of demonstrations around women’s rights. In a video message conceived, organized and produced by Iranian-American screenwriter Nicole Najafi, director, writer and producer Ana Lily Amirpour, and actress-writer Mozhan Marnò, the collection of entertainers are captured through photos holding signs featuring the hashtag #StopExecutionsinIran. “We stand with the people of Iran in their fight for freedom,” the video reads. “Thousands of protesters have been arrested. Some have already been executed. Many more are in danger. But the world is watching.”
The effort, which encourages viewers to make their own hashtag signs and post photos to their social media, took 10 days to complete, includes 52 Hollywood names and features La Femme’s, “Tu t’en lasses,” the use of which was approved by the band the same day the trio DMed them. Work on the over one-minute video began shortly after the first protestor executions, and sprung, in part, from conversations between Najafi and a Ukrainian organizer and friend coordinating for #ArmUkraineNow. The piece includes a mix of Hollywood talent newly invested in raising awareness and those who have been doing ongoing work around the women-led Iranian protests.
(…) In response, Iranians took to the streets where they have been met with nationwide internet blackouts, social media restrictions, teargassing, water canons, the use of live ammunition and executions, beginning with Mohsen Shekari’s, which the government alleged was tied to a protest-related crime. (As of late December, Human Rights Iran reported around 500 deaths associated with the demonstrations, with thousands more arrested and 100 protestors at risk of execution — sentences and arrests that are ongoing.)
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Oscar, Inside Out, DiCaprio, Banderas, Pitt, Bale, Gosling, De Niro, Scorsese…

Un film su Maometto bambino, ‘Muhammad. Messager of God’, di Majid Majidi, difenderà i colori dell’Iran alla prossima edizione dei premi Oscar, nella categoria Miglior film in lingua straniera. È un passaggio storico. La cinematografia persiana ha già presentato diciassette film agli Oscar e uno se lo è anche portato a casa, nel 2012, con ‘Una separazione’, di Asghar Farhadi. (ANSA)

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Argo, Sardinia and the Springy…

Iran has launched legal action against ‘Argo’, the beautiful Ben Affleck’s film that tells the escape of six American hostages from the embassy of the United States in Tehran in 1979 and who won the 2013 Oscar for Best Picture.

The heirs of the Persians, as  the French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre told Le Figaro, do not want the film to be banned, but the addition of the disclaimer, however frequent, “the facts stated in the film are not really happened” .

It would be, according to them, a sort of due clarification.

L’Iran ha avviato un’azione legale contro ‘Argo’, la bella pellicola di Ben Affleck che racconta la fuga di sei ostaggi americani dall’ambasciata degli Stati uniti a Teheran nel 1979 e che ha trionfato agli Oscar 2013 come Miglior film.

Gli eredi dei persiani, secondo quanto ha dichiarato a Le Figaro l’avvocato francese Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, non vogliono che la pellicola sia vietata ma che sia aggiunta la dicitura, peraltro frequente, “i fatti riportati nel film non sono realmente accaduti”.

Sarebbe, secondo loro, una sorta di dovuta precisazione.


 

Maybe the first time in history that a film  entirely shot in Sardinian dialect  arrives in theaters throughout Italy.

Will be ‘Su Re‘ (The King), by John Columbu (born in Nuoro, Sardinia), a transposition of the Gospel narration of the Passion of Christ shot in the mountains of Nuoro, whose release was scheduled on March 28, Holy Thursday.

It will be , in the intentions of the teacher, “a Franciscan film in the wake of the new season announced by Pope Francesco, sobriety, spirituality profound poverty”.

 

Sarà forse la prima volta nella storia che un film girato interamente in sardo arriva nelle sale di tutta Italia.

Sarà ‘Su Re’, del nuorese Giovanni Columbu, trasposizione del racconto evangelico della Passione di Cristo girata sulle montagne di Nuoro*, il cui arrivo è stato programmato il 28 marzo, Giovedí santo.

Si tratterà, nelle intenzioni del maestro, di “un film francescano nel solco della nuova stagione annunciata da papa Francesco, sobrietà, spiritualità profonda, povertà”.

*pron. Nùoro, non Nuòro


 

Adriano Celentano has posted in his website the petition ‘Let’s save the places of the Boy via Gluck’, promoted by the association of Martesiana Friends and by Legambiente Circles in Milan, directed to the Minister of the Cultural Heritage with the evident desire to include the famous and by now legendary Gluck Street of the well-known song among the cultural and landscape assets to save.

It should be remembered that  “The Springy”  lived there his childhood with his family and that Gluck was, however, not a mediocre Austrian composer.

Adriano Celentano ha postato sul suo sito la petizione ‘Salviamo i luoghi del Ragazzo della Via Gluck’, promossa dall’Associazione Amici della Martesiana e dai Circoli Legambiente di Milano e indirizzata al ministro dei Beni culturali con l’evidente anelito di inserire la famosa e ormai leggendaria via Gluck della nota canzone tra i beni culturali e paesaggistici da tutelare.

È opportuno ricordare che il Molleggiato ha vissuto colà la sua infanzia, assieme alla famiglia e che Gluck era, peraltro, un non mediocre compositore austriaco.

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