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Articles Historical Argument, Involuntary Memory, and the Subversion of Balkanist Discourse within Theo Angelopoulos’ Ulysses’ Gaze
…2005) 358-359. ]] Theo Angelopoulos’ historical epic Ulysses’ Gaze (1995) confronts this reality within its narrative. In an exchange between the film’s unnamed Odysseus-like protagonist A., played by Harvey Keitel, and his journalist friend Niko, Niko specifically alludes to western media’s tendency to construct Balkan history: A.: How do journalists…
February 29th, 2016
Articles Theo Angelopoulos: On the Road between Story and History
…With his films, Theo Angelopoulos’ creates a mixture of historical and introspective cinema. In his early, more politically inclined films, this leads to a kind of Kantian sentiment of the sublime, where, through the poetry of the narration and the disarray of his characters, we can’t help but feel anxious…
February 29th, 2016
Articles The Aesthetics of the Long Take in Theo Angelopoulos’s The Travelling Players
…Montes In 1970, Theo Angelopoulos directed Reconstruction (Anaparastassi), his first feature film, which already introduced a distinct aesthetic that he would develop throughout his career. Of all the contemporary Greek directors, Angelopoulos is the one who has most powerfully formulated a cinematic syntax, most notably marked by a bias toward…
February 29th, 2016
Articles The Suspended Step of the Stork: Theo Angelopoulos among the Greats
…Greece’s preeminent auteur, Theo Angelopoulos (1935-2012). This is the film in which he solidified his measured mise-en-scène, long take, long shot style, four years before his most famous International success, Ulysses’ Gaze (1995). Yet Angelopoulos, whose every film contains isolated moments of visual sophistication, remains, in my mind, a notch…
February 29th, 2016
Issues Theo Angelopoulos: The Praxis of History as Style – Volume 20, Issue 2 / February 2016
…the death of Theo Angelopoulos, and this issue was initially planned as a tribute to his art to coincide, more or less, with the time of his death. If this were created in an Angelopoulos film the time of his death and the time of this tribute would co-exist in…
February 29th, 2016
Articles Willem Dafoe: A Master Class and an Interview
…second part of Theo Angelopoulos’s trilogy, which started with The Weeping Meadow (2004) and covers the history of the 20th century. His presence forced many film students, journalists and fans to get out of bed very early in the morning to stand in line for almost two hours in order…
February 29th, 2016
Issues The Turin Horse & The European Art Film – Volume 16, Issue 4 / April 2012
…recent death of Theo Angelopoulos (stay tuned for a special Angelopoulos issue of Offscreen in the near future) Béla Tarr is perhaps the most rigidly formalist of the remaining figures of classical European Modernism, the type of art house filmmaker who values equally rigorous formal design and somber themes that…
April 30th, 2012
Articles World Film Festival 2009
…was Festival favorite Theo Angelopoulos, with his follow up to Weaping Meadow, The Dust of Time (2008), which features a stellar international cast including Willem Dafoe (repeating from Weaping Meadow), Bruno Ganz (who starred in Eternity and a Day), Michel Piccoli, Irène Jacob and Christiane Paul. Compared to earlier Angelopoulos,…
November 30th, 2009
Articles Thinking About Cinema With Cinema
…Kenji Mizoguchi, and Theo Angelopoulos, who all favor the psychological intensity of the long take when it comes to intensifying the experiential. For example, what comes to mind when we think of Hitchcock, Resnais, Godard, Eisenstein, Vertov, Makavejev, Kubrick, Roeg and other directors that rely heavily on montage and editing?…
July 31st, 2002
Articles Interview with Kwangmo Lee, Part 1
…[Ingmar] Bergman, and [Theo] Angelopoulos, and this helped me a lot to reach the point where I could make my film. In fact in Korea when I couldn’t get my film made I wondered why they didn’t have these types of films? The answer was that there is no audience…
March 1st, 1999
Articles 50 (non-Palme d’Or) winning films
…Ulysses’ Gaze , Theo Angelopoulos (Greece), Grand Prix du Jury (2nd prize), FIPRESCI (shared) Good Men, Good Women , Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan), no prize 1996; Breaking the Waves , von Trier (Denmark/UK), Grand Prix du Jury The last ten years have seen the continuation of conservative decision making by Cannes…
February 13th, 1998
Articles Francesco Barilli Interview
…with Bernardo Bertolucci, Theo Angelopoulos and so on. Offscreen: The scenes in which the “ghost” girl appears are truly disquieting. The girl was played by Daniela Barnes, who later became popular as Lara Wendel. How did you choose her? Farmer with her younger phantom self, played by Daniela Barnes Francesco…
December 31st, 2011
Articles Gerry, or all Roads Lead to the “Thing”
…by Andrei Tarkovsky, Theo Angelopoulos, Bela Tarr, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, and Tsai Ming-Liang, not in American films starring Matt Damon playing at your local first run theatre. Equally important to the film’s measured rhythm is that the ASL is consistent across the film, with approximately 50 shots in the first half…
March 31st, 2003
Articles Visual Style in M. Night Shyamalan’s “Fantastic” Trilogy : The Long Take
…Bertolucci, Michelangelo Antonioni, Theo Angelopoulos, Yasujiro Ozu, Andrei Tarkovsky, or Ettore Scola), it is quite rare in mainstream Hollywood film and is another example of Shyamalan stretching the boundaries of classical mainstream style (this time-bending ‘real time’ also occurs in John Sayles’ Lone Star, although Sayles may not be considered…
November 30th, 2003
Articles Introduction to André Bazin, Part 1: Theory of Film Style in its Historical Context
…Andrei Tarkovsky, and Theo Angelopoulos). An integral part of the mise-en-scéne style is the presence of depth of field. Bazin wrote entirely on this aspect in the article “Pour en finir avec la profondeur de champ” (“My Final Words on Depth of Field”) (Cahiers du Cinéma. 17-23). This article begins…
July 31st, 2003
Issues David Lynch – Volume 13, Issue 9 / September 2009
…Michelangelo Antonioni and Theo Angelopoulos). David Lynch’s name is usually synonymous with ‘weird’ but for those who have followed his career closely a more accurate definition might be polymorphously weird, or just plain eclectic. Along with his successful career as a painter, Lynch has made just about every type of…
September 30th, 2009
Offscreen Notes Theo Angelopoulos 1935-2012
…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…
January 24th, 2012
Articles Diverging Directorial Styles & Performance
…Jançso, Andrei Tarkovsky, Theo Angelopoulos being a few) there are not that many directors who exist solely on the extreme end of the style spectrum (expressive editing or long take). Most directors are closer to the middle or use both styles. Eisenstein believed editing to be the single most important…
October 31st, 2012
Articles American Masters and Monsters: Jefferson in Paris and The Golden Bowl, two films of love and power by James Ivory, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and Ismail Merchant
…Margaret von Trotta, Theo Angelopoulos, Carlos Saura, Hsou Hsiao-hsien, and Emir Kusturica—or even to Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln or Ava DuVernay’s Selma. The film Jefferson in Paris does not depict the most dramatic or significant events in Thomas Jefferson’s public life, but it does give image, movement, and voice to genuine…
November 30th, 2022
Articles RIDM 2019: Interview with Oskar Alegría, director of Zumiriki
…read an interview with Angelopoulos that I had saved on my computer, where he says that every film he made was more uncertain, contrary to what it might seem, that seniority gives you a degree, a security… He said no. Every film I make seems more mysterious to me. And…
November 30th, 2019