Theo Angelopoulos

This day 20 years ago marked one of the greatest triumphs of Greek cinema when acclaimed director Theo Angelopoulos won the coveted Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for Eternity and A Day. The haunting film about a man at the...

Three years have passed since famous Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos passed away at the age of 76, after being involved in an accident while shooting his latest film "The Other Sea" in Athens, Greece. However, the Greek Culture Foundation...

Significant films, representative of Greek cinema, will be screened at the 36th Cairo International Film Festival that is scheduled to take place from November 9 to 18, since Greece is the guest of honor country this year. Organizers chose to close the...

A tribute to the Greek cinema will be held in Brussels in the next four months to honor the Greek Presidency. The event is an initiative of the Royal Belgian Film Archive (Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique - CINEMATEK) and the...

Today, the Center for Modernism Studies of the University of New South Wales is organizing a symposium for the great Greek auteur Theo Angelopoulos. According to the official announcement, important speakers of the university will analyze the continuities and ruptures...

An Athens summer cinema called Ciné Attikon will be renamed "Theodoros Angelopoulos," to honor the internationally distinguished work of Greek filmmaker Angelopoulos who died in 2011 in a street accident during the shooting of his last film. The renaming ceremony will...

The Berlin International Film Festival 2012 will present two special screenings in its programme, paying tribute to the recently deceased Greek filmmaker Theodoros Angelopoulos and German actor and filmmaker Vadim Glowna. The Greek award-winning director (77) was killed in a...

Hollywood based film producer Alexis Varouxakis writes a personal note about Theo Angelopoulos and sheds light on this Great Greek director as a mentor. "I was 19 when I came to work on the set of 'Eternity and a Day'. It was the first time I was on a film set, the first time I met an actor - since then you very kindly let me into your house and your family. You gave me direction when I needed it," Varouxakis continues.

The Greek Orthodox Community (GOC) of NSW will hold a special event in memory of the recently deceased Greek filmmaker Theodoros Angelopoulos on February 12 at its suburban premises in Lakemba, at 17:00. The event will include the screening of...

During a TV interview that director Theo Angelopoulos gave in Bulgaria, Theo said that while he has been to Sofia for the International Film Festival, the only thing that he had to say to the audience was: "Only a...