Famed Greek Filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos Will get Retrospective in Los Angeles

The movies of legendary Greek writer-director Theo Angelopoulos – whose “Eternity and a Day” gained the Palme d’Or in Cannes in 1998 – are being screened at a two-month tribute within the Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater close to the UCLA campus in Westwood. The profession retrospective opened on October 14 and can proceed by means of December 18.

Referred to as Landscapes of Time: The Movies of Theo Angelopoulos, the tribute consists of all of the director’s characteristic movies and a number of shorts.

Angelopoulos was a significant power within the Greek movie business from the mid-Nineteen Seventies till his dying in 2012. Drawing on his personal experiences with the tumultuous occasions going down in Greece, his movies usually heart on characters whose private journeys turn out to be intertwined with the tides of historical past.

Whereas many moviegoers have discovered Angelopoulos’ movies uncompromising and difficult, they’re finally rewarded by his work’s distinctive storytelling, epic scale and gorgeous imagery – all components that sustained the director’s wins at a number of top-tier movie festivals over time, together with Berlin, Thessaloniki and Venice, in addition to Cannes.

Along with “Eternity and a Day,” Angelopoulos’ motion pictures embrace “The Travelling Gamers’ (1975), a controversial movie that turned a political pawn in Greece earlier than a print was surreptitiously taken to Cannes; “Panorama within the Mist” (1988), greatest movie winner on the European Movie Awards; and “Ulysses’ Gaze” (1995), awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.

The auteur’s closing characteristic, 2008’s “The Mud of Time” (pictured above), starring Willem Dafoe, follows a filmmaker on a journey to make a movie about his émigré Russian dad and mom because it spans 50 years, shifting throughout continents and between previous and current.

The Angelopoulos tribute, introduced underneath the auspices of the Consulate Normal of Greece in Los Angeles, is supported by the Los Angeles Greek Movie Competition, the UCLA Movie & Tv Archive, and the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Middle for the Examine of Hellenic Tradition, with the collaboration of the UCLA Middle for European and Russian Research.