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

Monanieba (Repentance, 1984)

Tengiz Abuladze by presenting a grotesque realism with a touch of subcutaneous self-sarcasm managed to bury all the fears that had survived for so many years in the USSR.

El Chacal de Nahueltoro (Jackal of Nahueltoro, 1969)

One of the most important political films not only for Chilean cinema but also for the whole South America directed by Miguel Littín.

Až do Mesta Aš (Made in Ash) – Torino 30

Iveta Grófová depicts the bleak life in Bohemia that has gradually become Germany's poor man's Thailand.

Su Re (The King) – Torino 30

Giovanni Columbu directs this artful experimental depiction of Jesus of Nazareth's last day on Earth set in Sardinia with amateur local cast.

El Sicario, Room 164 (2010)

Τhe controversial documentary by Gianfranco Rosi. A retired sicario is narrating his experiences working for the Mexican drug cartels.

QUOTES

Antonioni on directing

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

Sogni d’Oro (1981)

Directed by Nanni Moretti

Roberto Rossellini: Camera’s a ballpoint pen

The camera’s a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it’s not worth anything if you don’t have anything to say.

There has always been violence in art

There has always been violence in art and many psychiatrists believe that it serves as a catharsis rather than a model.

TV vs. Cinema by Jean-Luc Godard

La télévision fabrique de l'oubli. Le cinéma fabrique des souvenirs.