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Articles Interview with Tolga Karaçelik on his latest film Butterflies at the 59th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
…rich, people like Theo Angelopoulos, Emir Kusturica, and all those great filmmakers I grew up with. For example, Butterflies has some influences from Kusturica, but I think he does safe comedy and safe drama. My film, on the other had incorporated different kinds of drama, comedy, and melodramatic elements.
March 31st, 2019
Articles TIFF 2018: Body of Evidence
…in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos, 1988) (two children standing on a platform), and Sicilia! (Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, 1998) (a two-man dialogue on a moving train). The segment builds inevitably to documentary images of the Holocaust, which serve as a segue into the fourth section, “L’Esprit de la loi,”…
March 31st, 2019
Articles 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
…Palme d’Or Winner Theo Angelopoulos, and included Danish Festival Consultant Lissy Belaiche, Serbian Actress Mirjana Karanovic, Mexican Production designer Eugenio Caballero, Philippine director Lav Diaz, Hungarian director Gyorgi Palfi, and American director Amos Poe. THE AWARDS Best Feature Film Award – Golden Alexander (40.000 euros): Ajami by Scandar Copti and…
November 30th, 2009
Articles Revanche (2008, Götz Spielman)
…doesn’t veer into Theo Angelopoulos, Bela Tarr, or Andrei Tarkovsky territory with his long takes, his two hour film contains only 210 shots, for an average shot length (ASL) of 35 seconds, which is slower than perhaps 80%, if not more, of films being made today. His takes are for…
February 28th, 2010
Articles The Best of the “Noughties”
…The Weeping Meadow), Theo Angelopoulos (Greece/France/Italy/Germany) McDull, Prince de la Bun, Toe Yuen (Hong Kong), animation Moolaadé, Ousmane Sembene (Senegal/Fr/Burkina Faso/Cameroon/Mor/Tunisia) 2005 Zui hao de shi guang (Three Times), Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan/France) Haze, Tsukamoto Shinya (Japan), 49 min., digital Niu pi (Oxhide), Liu Jiayin (China), digital Nekam Achat Mishtey Eynay…
December 31st, 2009
Articles What is Cinephilosophy? A Bazinian Paradigm, Part 1
…Europe’ (Zanussi in Poland, Angelopoulos in Greece, Tarkovsky and Sokurov in Russia, Janscó and Tarr in Hungary) and the great Japanese directors (Ozu, Mizoguchi, Kurosawa, Naruse, Oshima, Imamura) have tended not to be cinephiles, perhaps because in Budapest or Moscow or Tokyo or Warsaw or Athens there wasn’t a chance…
February 28th, 2009
Articles Montreal, 2004, the Film Year in Review
…The Weeping Meadow, Theo Angelopoulos (Greece) MAAREK HOB (In the Battlefields), Danielle Arbid (Lebanon/France/Belg.) Lu Cheng (Passages), Yang Chao (China) Memoria del saqueo—A Social Genocide, Fernando E. Solanas (Argentina) Parapalos (Pin Boy), Ana Poliak (Argentina) also at the FNC: ANATOMIE DE L’ENFER, Catherine Breillat (France) Whisky, Juan Pablo Rebella &…
January 31st, 2005
Articles Sátántangó
…Tsing Ming-liang, and Theo Angelopoulos). Why is it that the excessively long takes in Sátántangó, many with little action, movement, or narrative development in any conventional sense, are still fascinating and riveting (setting aside, of course, questions of personal taste)? The answer rests in a distinction I will make between…
April 30th, 2002
Offscreen Notes Tonino Guerra
…impressive indeed: (along with the above) Mario Monicelli, Theo Angelopoulos, Francesco Rosi, Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica, Dino Risi, and Paolo Cavara. Perhaps some of the credit behind the mood of stillness and aesthetic “ennui” so much a part of Antonioni, Tarkovsky and Angelopoulos should now be given to this…
March 21st, 2012
Offscreen Notes Koji Wakamatsu: 1936-2012
…which uncannily recalls Theo Angelopoulos dying by a similar cause earlier this year, 24 January 2012, at the same age as Wakamatsu, 76. Wakamatsu had just completed his latest film, The Millenium Rapture (2012), which is playing at Montreal’s FNC (Festival de nouveau cinema). Offscreen has written on two of…
October 17th, 2012