Offscreen Notes
Theo Angelopoulos 1935-2012
Shockwaves around the world of cinema, as the great Greek auteur Theo Angelopoulos has died from injuries incurred after being hit by a motorcycle on Tuesday, January 23rd. Apparently he was working on a film and the accident occurred near the film set. Angelopoulos had established himself as one of the most uncompromising filmmakers in contemporary cinema, making works that were heavily steeped in detailed historical discourse and a highly mannered mise en scene and long take, moving camera visual style. Angelopoulos’s greatest works include The Travelling Players (1975), Landscape in the Mist (1988), The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991), Ulysses Gaze (1995) and Eternity and a Day (1998). Offscreen has had an Angelopoulos special issue in the works for a very long time, placed on the back-burner, but this tragic news will hopefully inspire me to complete it sooner rather than later. Stay tuned.
