The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture , No 66)
Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The big “B” of Bollywood added another feather to his hat as he was honored by the lifetime achievement award yesterday for completing 40 years in the film industry. The auspicious even occurred at the 11th Mumbai Film Festival. “No person can rise in his talent without others support, especially in this industry. Unless you have [...]
eFilmCritic (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The 11th Mumbai Film FestivalAbhishek BandekarOver the past weekend, the Mumbai Film Festival continued with its unexpected surprises. When the reel for Alejandro Almendras’s Huacho turned up damaged, people went to see Maciej Pieprzyca’s Polish film Drzazgi (Splinters) instead. Influenced by Inarritu’s non-linear narrative structure, but without his butterfly-effect, Drzazgi, a sieving...
Music Maza (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Click above for event stills The curtain closed on the 11th edition of Mumbai Film Festival organized by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) at Mumbai amidst the who's who of the of Indian and World cinema gracing the closure of the event with their presence. A glittering closing ceremony herald the closure of the 7 day Festival that laid out some real sumptuous fare for film-buffs in Mumbai....
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The movie news recap for November 6 features the Best film winner at the Mumbai international film festival and Disney's christmas international release.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
International News: Fewer Greek films in lineup due to protest -- The Thessaloniki Film Festival opens next week with a bigger prize purse and a screening schedule that includes fewer local Greek films because of an ongoing dispute within the Greek film community.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Film Festivals: Film Festival kicks off on Oct. 29 -- The Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image is upping the amount of competition prize money and introducing documentary section Real Reel for this year’s edition of the Mumbai Film Festival, which kicks off Oct. 29 in India.
TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan will be honored with this year's Master of Cinema lifetime achievement award at the 58th Mannheim-Heidelberg film festival. Egoyan won Mannheim's Golden Ducat award for "Next of Kin" in 1984. He will accept the honor in person Nov. 6. Previous Master of Cinema winners include Aleksandr Sokurov, Wim Wenders, Raoul Ruiz, Theo Angelopoulos and Zhang Yimou.
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
Bollywood legend Shashi Kapoor is to be handed a prestigious award at the Mumbai Film Festival.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
For nearly 20 years Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou has been scoring the films of fellow countryman Theo Angelopoulos, perhaps the single greatest nod to ECM producer/label head Manfred Eicher's ongoing love of both music and film--and, in particular, the way the two, at their best, seamlessly intersect to create something bigger than either one alone. The most obvious and quoted instance of how music...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
First-time director Peter Strickland tells Ronald Bergan how he came to make a revenge movie in a language he didn't speak with little money and no experience Earlier this year, at the Berlin film festival, the starry directorial lineup included Theo Angelopoulos, Chen Kaige, Lukas Moodysson, Costa-Gavras, Andrej Wajda and Peter Strickland. Peter Strickland? Who he? That is a question almost the entire...
The Simple Blog of Celebrities (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
The Century of Films The Century of Films was a weekly column by British film critic Derek Malcolm published in The Guardian between 2000 and 2002. Malcolm chose one hundred films he deemed artistically or culturally important. In choosing the films, he used two guidelines. First, only one film would be chosen for each director highlighted. Also, he tried to include as many films from different countries...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/12/2009
This is Greek composer Karaindrou's latest score for a film by Theo Angelopoulos, for whom she has written for 25 years. The pattern is similar to its predecessors, and no less stately, with slow, almost unbearably intense orchestral themes foregrounded by harp, cello, piano and violin. It's a conception of film scoring that recalls Maurice Jarre, where the steady accretion of atmosphere counts for...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 02/18/2009
Film Reviews: A self-styled "poetic reckoning" of the past century and "a visionary relationship" with the present one.
Circle of 13 (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
The film director Theo Angelopoulos talks to openDemocracy's Jane Gabriel about the turmoil in Greece and about his new film 'The Dust of Time'Theo Angelopoulos: We have reached a dead end point in the social and political life of Greece; and if we add to this the economic crisis, we find superimposed on each other three parallel crises, social, political and economic. It is a very severe situation....
Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
Theo Angelopoulos : We have reached a dead end point in the social and political life of Greece; and if we add to this the economic crisis, we find superimposed on each other three parallel crises, social, political and economic. It is a very severe situation. Who suffers from this? Obviously the more vulnerable social and economic classes, but some other groups as well. Who? The young people. Ahead...
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