Maxx (film)
Maxx (Persian: مکس) is a 2005 Iranian musical comedy movie, directed by Saman Moghaddam, starring Farhad Aeesh, Rambod Javan, Mohammad Reza Sharifinia, Gohar Kheirandish, Pegah Ahangarani, Cyrus Ebrahimzadeh, and Amir Jafari. The movie proved to be very popular among the Iranian-American community.
Maxx is a film about a struggling musician in Los Angeles. The movie starts with a board meeting of Iranian employees. The speak and takes them into an amazing and hilarious musical number singing about the famous Iranian population including tennis players and doctors. They start talking about a famous composer who went to Juilliard and wants him their to perform with a band. They mistake him for Maxx, a low class performer in Los Angeles. The employees invite Maxx to Iran because they want him to perform with a famous band in Iran. Maxx doesn't know anything he's doing. In the middle of the movie, the people who invited him to the hotel find out who he is and get angry. They go along with Maxx's plan, which is to fake being the composer. The FBI finds out from a soccer coach WHO HAS SERIOUS PROBLEMS. The FBI goes along with the plan as long as Maxx leaves and goes back to L.A. The movie is filled with interviews with a bureau for the F.B.I in Iran from the end of the movie. At the end they get caught, while Maxx is ending the movie with a beautiful music finale. Maxx leaves the country. The end credits ends with one of Maxx's best songs with the cast singing and dancing.
Maxx
Maxx may refer to:
Maxx (band)
Maxx was a German Eurodance act who had major, albeit brief, international success in 1993-1994.
Biography
After having already recorded a German cover version of Snow's "Informer", rapper Boris Köhler teamed up with the producer and songwriter Juergen Wind, Frank Hassas (Quickmix), David Brunner (Hitman) and Jeglitza to produce "Get-A-Way". Jeglitza moved on to other projects. Köhler, under the stage name of Gary B, performed the ragamuffin rap, and a female singer Samira Besic produced the vocals for the chorus. It was a dancefloor hit all over Europe, peaking at No. 11 at their home of Germany, while entering the top-5 in the UK, Austria, Sweden and the Netherlands, the single entered the top-10 in Switzerland and Norway. "Get-A-Way" eventually reached a Gold status in Germany for selling over 250,000, and in the UK, it was certified with a Silver-certification-award for selling over 200,000 units. Samira Besic, who had at the peak of Maxx's career left the act for a solo career, was replaced by Linda Meek now known as Elyse G.Rogers.
Film (band)
Film was a Yugoslav rock group founded in 1978 in Zagreb. Film was one of the most popular rock groups of the former Yugoslav new wave in the late 1970s to early 1980s.
History
New wave years (1979-1981)
During 1977 and 1978, bassist Marino Pelajić, guitarist Mladen Jurčić, and drummer Branko Hromatko were Azra members when Branimir "Johnny" Štulić brought Jura Stublić as the new vocalist. Stublić was to become Aerodrom member, but due to his deep vocals it never happened. The lineup functioned for a few months only and after a quarrel with Štulić, on early 1979, Pelajić, Jurčić, Hromatko and Stublić formed the band Šporko Šalaporko i Negove Žaluzine, naming the band after a story from the "Polet" youth magazine, which was soon after renamed to Film. The memories of the Azra lineup later inspired Štulić to write the song "Roll over Jura" released on Filigranski pločnici in 1982.
Saxophonist Jurij Novoselić, who at the time had worked under the pseudonym Kuzma Videosex, joined the band, inspiring others to use pseudonym instead of their original names: vocalist Stublić became Jura Jupiter, bassist Pelajić became Mario Baraccuda and guitarist Jurčić became Max Wilson. Before joining the band, Stublić did not have much experience as a vocalist, however, since his father had been an opera singer, he often visited the theatre and opera, and at the age of 13, he started playing the guitar, earning money as a street performer at seaside resorts.
Film (Iranian magazine)
Film (Persian:فیلم) is an Iranian film review magazine published for more than 30 years. The head-editor is Massoud Mehrabi.
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Film (film)
Film is a 1965 film written by Samuel Beckett, his only screenplay. It was commissioned by Barney Rosset of Grove Press. Writing began on 5 April 1963 with a first draft completed within four days. A second draft was produced by 22 May and a forty-leaf shooting script followed thereafter. It was filmed in New York in July 1964.
Beckett’s original choice for the lead – referred to only as “O” – was Charlie Chaplin, but his script never reached him. Both Beckett and the director Alan Schneider were interested in Zero Mostel and Jack MacGowran. However, the former was unavailable and the latter, who accepted at first, became unavailable due to his role in a "Hollywood epic." Beckett then suggested Buster Keaton. Schneider promptly flew to Los Angeles and persuaded Keaton to accept the role along with "a handsome fee for less than three weeks' work."James Karen, who was to have a small part in the film, also encouraged Schneider to contact Keaton.
The filmed version differs from Beckett's original script but with his approval since he was on set all the time, this being his only visit to the United States. The script printed in Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett (Faber and Faber, 1984) states:
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