TagVangelis Mourikis

Comedy, Sarajevo 2015, Tallinn 2015, Thessaloniki 2015

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Chevalier – Sarajevo 21

Athina Rachel Tsangari tries to find Who’s the Best in General with a deadpan odd satire that dismantles masculinity and makes Greek Weird Wave to go feel-good. Special Jury Mention at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival.

REVIEWS

Tôkyô Sensô Sengo Hiwa (The Man Who Left His Will on Film, 1970)

Nagisha Ôshima is performing a requiem for Japanese New Wave and he is covering everything, from the sociopolitical changes till his own alienation that he feels as an artist.

Stachka (Strike, 1925)

The debut feature film by Sergei Eisenstein and the first archetypical example of pure communist propaganda.

Algunas Chicas (Some Girls) – Venice 70 Orizzonti

A rather obscure and off beat thriller by Santiago Palavecino that is set contemporarily in dream and reality.

Perfect Sense (2011)

A dysfunctional dramatic romance which takes place in an apocalyptic dystopic period directed by David Mackenzie.

Le Magnifique (The Magnificent, 1973)

The instant cult French espionage parody by Philippe de Broca with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset.

QUOTES

Kieślowski and the magic of screen

As an audience, you find yourself in a state of tension because you're in a world shown to you by the director.

Jafar Panahi: I don’t like political movies.

I’m not a political person. I don’t like political movies. But I take every opportunity to comment on the social issues. I talk about the current issues.

John Cassavetes on Art

Art, meaning that we will enjoy ourselves and express ourselves freely.

Introduction to Faces by John Cassavetes

Society must chuck its petty prejudices and false idols and if necessary start again from a new beginning where men as well as women can be kind to themselves.

But the cinephile is…

But the cinephile is… a neurotic!