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AMEN
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Filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Missing) tackles the Vatican's unwillingness to oppose the Holocaust in this intense drama. When Nazi officer Kurt Gerstein (Ulrich Tukur) learns that his invention, Zyclon B, is being used to exterminate Jews, he tries to inform Pope Pius XII (Marcel Iures) of the Nazi's atrocities. His pleas fall on deaf ears, but he finds a sympathetic supporter in Father Riccardo Fontana (Mathieu Kassovitz), a man who risks his life to convince the Vatican of the horrors of the Nazi regime. Costa-Gavras---France---2002---132 mins.
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ANGEL (KATAKOUZINOS)
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A dark, gripping drama of love exploited and revenge taken, Angel was the first openly gay Greek film to receive major theatrical distribution domestically and abroad. A handsome young Athenian believes he may have found an escape from poverty and his alcoholic father when he falls for a macho sailor who promises him a better life. Their life together is far from blissful, however, as Angel's new lover puts him to work on the streets as a transvestite prostitute. When his dangerous and humiliating new profession finally overwhelms him, Angel strikes back through violence. "...bold, realistic, sensitive and skillfully made..." (Variety). In Greek with George Katakouzinos---Greece---1982---120 mins.
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ATTENBERG
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Like the characters in Dogtooth (whose director acts in this film), 23-year-old Marina (Ariane Labed) has a peculiar relationship with social norms. In Marina’s world, the only pleasures worth pursuing are found in the relationship with her father (Vangelis Mourikis), the music of Suicide, the nature documentaries of Sir David Attenborough, and the time spent walking and squawking like a penguin with her best friend, Bella (Evangelia Randou). But as she enters an awkward sexual relationship with an engineer--while counting down the days until her father’s life is claimed by an unspecified terminal illness--it becomes clear that the idiosyncratically-principled Marina is not immune to change. In Greek with English subtitles.
Athina Rachel Tsangari---Greece---2010---97 mins.
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ATTILA '74
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An extraordinary and devastatingly powerful film, Attila 74 confronts the real-life tragedy of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. The film "is history in the making. Remarkably, Cacoyannis manages to sustain at once a passionate engagement and a wide historical view--perhaps because he is seeing events always in terms of people" (Times of London). The film, wrote the L.A. Times, "is at once a deeply personal record and a formal work of art with a structure and a tragic sense of the inevitable, worthy of Euripides." In Greek with English subtitles. Michael Cacoyannis---Greece/Cyprus---1974---103 mins.
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AVIDA
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"Somewhere between Monty Python, Jacques Tati and a slideshow of New Yorker cartoons" (Variety) lies this surreal, black-and-white comedy from French filmmakers Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern (Aaltra). They also appear as two would-be kidnappers, whose plan to snatch an obese wealthy woman's dog unravels when they are enlisted to assist her, Avida (Velvet D'Amour), in her own death. Featuring Eric Martin, Claude Chabrol, Fernando Arrabal, Mathieu Kassovitz, and Jean-Claude Carriere. An Official Selection at Cannes. In French, Spanish, and English with English subtitles. Benoit Delepine/Gustave Kervern---France---2006---83 mins.
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BETRAYED
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Greek director Costa-Gavras investigates white hate groups in America in this controversial drama. Debra Winger stars as a novice FBI undercover agent sent to locate and identify rural political unrest in the heartland. She finds there are two sides to the widower father played by Tom Berenger and both are heavily armed. With John Heard and John Mahoney. Costa-Gavras---USA---1988---127 mins.
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BLACKMAIL BOY
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Called a "Greek tragedy, Jerry Springer style" (Boston Phoenix), this sudsy drama plays like vintage Almodovar transplanted to the Mediterranean. Yanni Tsimitsellis stars as Christos, a hunky 20-year-old who beds every man and woman in his sight. When a wealthy land developer (Akyllas Karazisis) falls for Christos' charms, the backstabbing youngster uses his access to blackmail the gay tycoon for land for his family. In Greek with English Thanasis Papathanasiou/Michalis Reppas---Greece---2003---100 mins.
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CACOYANNIS COLLECTION
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Four exceptional films from Michael Cacoyannis, one of the pivotal figures in the history of Greek cinema. In Stella (1955, 92 mins.), the film that introduced the world to Melina Mercouri, a fiery nightclub singer defies the rules of conventional morality. In A Matter of Dignity (1957, 101 mins.), Cacoyannis creates a cynical portrait of Greek upper-class life in the story of a family torn apart by social conceit. A Girl in Black (1956, 101 mins.) concerns a writer who falls in love with a timid girl from a disgraced household. And the extraordinary and powerful Attila 74 (1975, 103 mins.) confronts the real-life tragedy of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. All four films are in Greek with English subtitles. Michael Cacoyannis---Greece---1955-1975
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CAFE AU LAIT
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In this audacious comedy from Mathieu Kassovitz, director of La Haine (Hate), an interracial romantic trio comes to grips with joint parenthood. A beautiful, pregnant young West Indian woman has two lovers, an African Muslim law student and a Jewish bicycle messenger, who hate one another. When she refuses to reveal which of them is the father of her expected child, they are forced to get along. In French with English Mathieu Kassovitz---France---1994---94 mins.
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CHERRY ORCHARD
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Chekhov's masterful play about a Russian family's decaying aristocratic status comes to the screen through the tasteful direction of Michael Cacoyannis (Zorba the Greek, Stella). Charlotte Rampling and Alan Bates head a fine cast, which includes Katrin Cartlidge and Michael Gough. "...essential viewing for lovers of Chekhov...a stark reflection of the way history has shaped the character of the Russian people" (Stephen Holden, New York Times). In Michael Cacoyannis---Greece/Cyprus/France---1999---137 mins.
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CONSTANTINE GIANNARIS SHORT F
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Three short films directed in Great Britain by the award-winning Greek filmmaker Constantine Giannaris (From the Edge of the City). This includes Caught Looking (1991, 35 mins.), which won the Teddy Award at the Berlin film festival. It's a subversive story about a gay man whose fantasies are played out in virtual reality with the help of a new computer program. In North to Vortex (1991, 55 mins.), a gay road movie, a bisexual poet picks up two hitchhikers as he makes his way out west. Lastly, A Place in the Sun (1994, 45 mins.) features a jaded Greek gentleman who falls for an 18-year-old Albanian boy. In English. Constantine Giannaris---Great Britain---1991-1994---135 mins.
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DAD ON THE RUN
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In this screwball comedy, a young Jewish father is entrusted with the duty of burying his newborn son's foreskin after the bris in accordance with Jewish tradition. When the father loses the foreskin, a crazy chain of events begins that leads him all over Paris. "An uproarious French comedy farce about tradition, lust and love" (Toronto Jewish Film Festival). In French with English subtitles. Dante Desarthe---France---2000---90 mins.
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DAYS OF 36
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One of earliest features from Greek filmmaker Theodore Angelopoulos, Days of '36 is a critique of dictatorial social repression in contemporary Greece as told through the relatively straightforward story of a prisoner who, in 1936, takes a conservative politician hostage on a visit to his jail. Even here, Angelopoulos' fluid, lengthy, and mobile sequence shots predominate. Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize Forum of New Cinema at the 1973 Berlin Film Festival. In Greek with optional English, Greek, and French subtitles. Theo Angelopoulos---Greece---1972---105 mins.
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DELICATESSEN (SPECIAL ED)
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Imagine the Coen brothers remaking Terry Gilliam's Brazil on speed and you get the idea of this film, set in a vaguely post-nuclear Paris. The action unfolds in a decaying building, where a war breaks out between a group of innocents, cannibals and militant vegetarians. With Dominique Pinon (Diva), Laure Dougnac, and Claude Dreyfus. In French with English Jean-Pierre Jeunet/Marc Caro---France---1991---95 mins.
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DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR
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A delightful fast-paced comedy of royal intrigue set in 17th century Spain. Louis de Funes is the evil, all-powerful minister of the King of Spain, and Yves Montand is his clever servant. "Refreshing... the settings are splendid... the gags are non-stop" (The New York Times). In French with Gerard Oury---France---1976---85 mins.
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DOGTOOTH
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In this adults-only art film about a cloistered, f'ed-up family, a trio of teenage-ish siblings is imprisoned, homeschooled, and sexualized on the grounds of their parents' eerily tranquil, hedge-fortified estate. Imagine The Village with only one family, The Virgin Suicides with two demented parents, or The Shining with less blood.
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EARTH & WATER
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"...a ravishing portrait of the stark contrast between rural and urban life in modern Greece" (Harvard Film Archive). A shepherd becomes passionately involved with a local girl but must flee to the city to escape the violence of her disapproving family. Witnessing the corruption of urban life, he is changed forever, losing any chance for a return to the innocence of his past romance. In Greek with English subtitles. Panos Karkanevatos---Greece---1999---112 mins.
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ELECTRA
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Irene Papas shines in the first film in Michael Cacoyannis' Euripides trilogy. Some consider this to be among the finest screen adaptations of classical Greek tragedy. Papas is an undeniable force, commanding the screen as the daughter who plots the murder of her mother as an act of vengeance for the death of her father. An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. In Greek with English subtitles. Michael Cacoyannis---Greece---1962---113 mins.
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ETERNITY AND A DAY
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From master filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos (Ulysses' Gaze, The Traveling Players) comes the 1998 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winner. Bruno Ganz (Wings of Desire) stars in this poetic, haunting and abundantly beautiful film, playing a dying man trying to make peace with his past. He finds a surprising source of hope when he encounters a young Albanian orphan. "A masterpiece that recalls such classics as Bergman's Wild Strawberries and Kurosawa's Ikiru" (Kevin Thomas, Newsday). In Greek with Theo Angelopoulos---Greece---1998---130 mins.
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FROM THE EDGE OF THE CITY
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In this raw, realistic drama, an 18-year-old Kazakhstani immigrant living on the outskirts of Athens works as a male prostitute and tries to survive johns, drug dealers, pimps, gangsters and other obstacles in a country that is not his own. "...it captures a gritty urban reality without moralizing or sentimentalizing its hapless young protagonist" (Stephen Holden, The New York Times). In Greek and Kazahk with English subtitles. Constantine Giannaris---Greece---1998---94 mins.
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