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1.Amarcord starring: Magali Noël, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Ciccio Ingrassia directed by: Federico Fellini June 16, 2000
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Federico Fellini's 1973 Amarcord is a film that has often been linked with Ingmar Bergman's Fanny & Alexander as films by old men looking back on their youth. While this is true, in the main, the fact is that Amarcord has a loose narrative structure, in which the lives of many characters are detailed in comic vignettes, whereas Fanny & Alexander is a straight drama. The film that Amarcord shares a deeper affinity with is one which was obviously influenced by it; Woody Allen's grossly underrated and terrific Radio Days. Which of those two films is better is debatable, although Allen's film is tighter, shorter, and a bit deeper in characterization. Allen's opening classroom scenes in Annie Hall also owe a debt to this film's school-based scenes. Amarcord is not a masterpiece, on par with ... Read More

2.Antigone starring: Irene Papas, Manos Katrakis, Maro Kodou, Nikos Kazis, Ilia Livykou directed by: Yorgos Javellas May 05, 1998
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OK, so I didn't read the "fine print". I ordered this DVD for my English class. When it arrived, I was distressed to see in fine print across the case, "Greek with English subtitles". My tenth graders were good sports about it, but the subtitles were small on my classroom's 25 inch screen. Just an FYI...

3.Stella starring: Melina Mercouri, Giorgos Foundas, Alekos Alexandrakis, Christina Kalogerikou, Voula Zouboulaki directed by: Mihalis Kakogiannis May 23, 2000
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STELLA / Greece 1955 (3 STARS) 17 December 2003: I had never seen a Greek film before, and Stella made me realize how that was my loss. In one of the most lovable characters ever depicted, Melina Mercouri plays the boisterous character of a night-club singer who's spirit cannot be curbed. The film is light years ahead of its peers and compares with films such as Cabaret which was made decades later. * Even though some of the filmmaking is technically crude, the Director's vision shines through and Stella's motivations are painstakingly established with the skill of an auteur. Greek culture with its boisterous cacophony is showcased with pride, as we discover that Stella despite her frolicking ways sets herself the highest standards of integrity and is one of the most honest people you will ever ... Read More

4.A Matter of Dignity starring: Minas Christidis, Mary Chronopoulou, Despo Diamantidou, Nikos Fermas, Dimitris Hoptiris May 23, 2000
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This work is outstanding. The acting and story line make this Greek Movie Classic a joy to watch. The theme brings one back to the situation in Greece that is long gone but the underlying human story is still relevant today.

5.Landscape in the Mist starring: Michalis Zeke, Tania Palaiologou, Stratos Tzortzoglou, Eva Kotamanidou, Aliki Georgouli directed by: Theodoros Angelopoulos November 11, 1998
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There is a superlative scene in Theo Angelopoulos's 1988 film Landscape In The Mist ( or Topio Stin Omichli) that is amongst the best filmic depictions of sexual abuse ever shown, and should be shown as a primer to Hollywood directors on how to be subtle and poetic, especially when dealing with such terminally PC topics. In it, the young ten or twelve year heroine of the film, Voula (Tania Palaiologou), who is on the run, in search of her nonexistent father (whom her never seen onscreen mother has told the children resides in Germany, even though she has no idea who their father/s is/are), with her five or six year old brother Alexandre (Michalis Zeke), has hitched a ride with a nameless truck driver (Vassilis Kolovos). After he tries to dump the kids off at a truck stop diner, but they follow him, he pulls ... Read More

6.A Girl in Black starring: Ellie Lambeti, Dimitris Horn, Giorgos Foundas, Eleni Zafeiriou, Stephanos Stratigos directed by: Mihalis Kakogiannis May 23, 2000
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Writer director, Cacoyannis has done numerous films and probably the most popular is the 50's movie, Zorba the Greek which starred Anthony Quinn. This black and white 1956 Greek film tells the story of a family two adult children, Marina, a beautiful young woman, her brother Mitso, now unemployed, and the mother, who became a widow at 32. The father was a merchant with wealth and now, the family's home is in disrepair and they are hounded by shame, hate and death, and more recently toward the mother, who is looked upon as a [...], simply because she needs love and affection too. When two men arrive from Athens for relaxation and the family rents the upstairs to the men, and the writer, also known as a playboy, falls for Marina. The young men in the community, mostly strapping handsome ... Read More

7.Earth & Water starring: Earth & Water February 25, 2003
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Writer director, Cacoyannis has done numerous films and probably the most popular is the 50's movie, Zorba the Greek which starred Anthony Quinn. This black and white 1956 Greek film tells the story of a family two adult children, Marina, a beautiful young woman, her brother Mitso, now unemployed, and the mother, who became a widow at 32. The father was a merchant with wealth and now, the family's home is in disrepair and they are hounded by shame, hate and death, and more recently toward the mother, who is looked upon as a [...], simply because she needs love and affection too. When two men arrive from Athens for relaxation and the family rents the upstairs to the men, and the writer, also known as a playboy, falls for Marina. The young men in the community, mostly strapping handsome ... Read More

8.Ghost of a Chance (Sub) starring: Emilios Chilakis, Maria Solomou, Spyros Stavrinidis, Mei Sevastopoulou, Stelios Christoforidis directed by: Vangelis Seitanidis April 29, 2003
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This premiere film for the Greek writer/director Vangelis Seitanidis made the festival rounds within the European continent as well as the United States, gaining the Best Film award at the Thessaloniki Fest in 2001, where Seitanidis was also accorded honours as Best New Director, and where third billed in this film Spyros Stavrinidis garnered the Best Supporting Actor prize. From this same event, Seitanidis took home a trophy for Best Screenplay of the Year, given by The Hellenic Association of Playwrights. The picture's American debut occurred at the 2003 Houston Worldfest where it gained many admirers, and it was well received in 2004 at San Francisco's Greek Film Festival. All of which may cause a discerning viewer to wonder if the competition was something less than potent for a piece that provides only passable ... Read More

9.From the Edge of the City (Sub) starring: Vasias Eleftheriadis, Constantine Giannaris, Kostas Gogos, Nikos Kamontos, Anestis Konstantinidis directed by: Constantine Giannaris September 11, 2001
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A Picture This production, it is about a bunch of kids who are Russian immigrants to Greece, the movie is spoken in two languages, Russian and Greek. The plot revolves around Sasha, a seventeen very attractive young man. Sasha is bisexual as most of his friends. His family are Russian and his father feels he is a looser. Sasha's friends hustle for extra money, including himself. However, he prefers women over men. There seems to be an interview between Sasha and an unseen man throughout the entire movie, perhaps in prison, because of what he does at the end of the movie. The movie focus on the perils of growing up in a city. There are the typical hang out places, lots of drugs and booze (one guy dies from an overdose, Anestis), the club scenes, the street dancing. The kids are all nice and cute. There are the prostitutes ... Read More

10.Signs of Life starring: Peter Brogle, Wolfgang Reichmann, Athina Zacharopoulou, Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg, Wolfgang Stumpf directed by: Werner Herzog November 11, 1998
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No filmmaker's career has been more defined and structured by the musical choices he has made than German film director Werner Herzog; and this claim is evident from his first full length feature, 1968's Signs Of Life (Lebenszeichen), which he made when he was twenty-four and released when he was twenty-five, after writing the script when he was twenty-one, but getting the idea for it, he claims, when he was fifteen or sixteen. Oddly, the film also gives a story credit to someone named Achim Von Arnim. Nonetheless, it is an extraordinary film, not because it is so technically brilliant, but because it espouses such a mature artistic touch. A good counterpoint to this film would be Martin Scorsese's debut film, Who's That Knocking At My Door? Scorsese's film shows much talent, but it is the art of a young man, whose protagonist is suffering the ... Read More

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