Theo Angelopoulos
Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος) (27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. An acclaimed and multi-awarded film director who dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world. He started making films in 1967. In the 1970s he made a series of political films about modern Greece. Angelopoulos' work, described by Martin Scorsese as that of "a masterful filmmaker", is characterized by slightest movement, slightest change in distance, long takes, and complex yet carefully composed scenes; his cinematic method, as a result, is often described as "sweeping" and "hypnotic." In 1998 his film Eternity and a Day went on to win the prestigious Palme d'Or at the 51st edition of the Cannes Film Festival, and his films have been shown at many of the world's most esteemed film festivals. In 2000 he was the President of the Jury at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival. The life of Theo Angelopoulos, his work, and his passion were the subject of a documentary directed in 2008 by Elodie Lelu. Angelopoulos died late on Tuesday, 24 January 2012, at 76 years old after being involved in a crash with a motorcycle ridden by an off-duty police officer. He was taken to hospital, where he was treated in an intensive care unit but succumbed to his serious injuries several hours later. Description above from the Wikipedia article Theo Angelopoulos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Kurosawa's Way
as SelfEleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover...
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A Special Day
as SelfAt the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.
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40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
as SelfA hstory of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight selection.
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Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine
as uncreditedGreek Theo Angelopoulos traveling from Athens to Ostia, the Roman beach where Pasolini was...
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The Reconstruction
as Journalist (uncredited)A magistrate reconstructs the murder of Costas Ghoussis, a labourer who was killed by his wife...
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Kierion
as uncreditedAthens 1967. The political assassinations and the background between the government and foreign...
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Champions: A Comic Tale
as SelfA comic tale. The issue of film education has been a Gordian link for many years in Greece....
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The Other Stage
as SelfMichel Demopoulos directed only one film in his life: a documentary about the shooting of Theo...
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A City Runs Through the Festival
as SelfA City Runs Through the Festival is an anatomy of the Festival through the eyes of its own audience.
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Jimmy the Tiger
as uncreditedA Greek strongman seduces a young tourist and spend the day with her. "Jimmis the Tiger" is a...
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Robbery in Athens
as uncreditedThree young people have decided to rob the safe of the estate agent Thomas Christidis, whose...
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Balkan Landscapes: The Gaze of Theo Angelopoulos
as HimselfTheo Angelopoulos recalls the defining moment in 1964 that led to him to live his entire life in...
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Theo on Theo
as uncreditedAn interview with Japanese writer and poet Natsuki Ikezawa at Angelopoulos' home in Greece.
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Kiarostami in Close up
as as SelfA documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and...
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To Each Their Voice: Theo Angelopoulos & Nikos Panayotopoulos
as HimselfIn the mid-80s, Aegokeros publishing house intended to publish a magazine about film and the...
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Affection to the People
as SelfA documentary about cinema censorship during the dictatorship in Greece (1967- 1974), based on...
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Filming Under Pressure
as SelfA doc made during the nightmarish filming of The Suspended Step of the Stork at Florina.
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Theo Angelopoulos: The Internal Journey
as himselfA deeply personal look at the life of Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos, one of the foremost...
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Έρημος και μόνος για να μου φύγει ο πόνος
as uncreditedA film director, his relationships with women and the expression of his bitterly emotions about...
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The End of an Eternity
as SelfDocumentary that recounts the ups and downs of the shooting of Eternity and a Day (1998),...
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