{"id":17,"date":"2018-05-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/05\/14\/movies-at-random-taxi\/"},"modified":"2018-05-14T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T12:00:00","slug":"movies-at-random-taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/05\/14\/movies-at-random-taxi\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies At Random: Taxi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tToday&#8217;s random movie is Jafar Panahi&#8217;s <i>Taxi<\/i> (<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=16116235\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HU DVD 13144<\/a>). This movie looks so good based on the trailer below. The<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taxi_(2015_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> plot summary on Wikipedia<\/a> kind of gives too much away, but it&#8217;s really interesting to read about the production of this film. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jafar_Panahi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Panahi himself<\/a> is a major part of this story, as it came about due to a travel ban preventing him from leaving Iran. <i>Taxi <\/i>won the Golden Bear at the&nbsp;65th Berlin International Film Festival, but the award was accepted by his niece because the director was not permitted to travel.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s our summary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jafar Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses his or her own view of the world while being interviewed by the curious and gracious driver.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the trailer:<\/p>\n<p>Happy viewing!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s random movie is Jafar Panahi&#8217;s Taxi (HU DVD 13144). This movie looks so good based on the trailer below. The plot summary on Wikipedia kind of gives too much away, but it&#8217;s really interesting to read about the production of this film. Panahi himself is a major part of this story, as it came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-use","category-movies-at-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}