Kathimerini, Greece
Feb 10 2005

Film classics at the Trianon

Organized by the Greek Film Center, tribute takes place on Saturday
afternoons and runs to April 23

Lovers. Eiji Okada and Emmanuelle Riva in Alain Resnais’s 1959 drama
‘Hiroshima Mon Amour.’ The film will be screened at the Trianon
Filmcenter on April 9.
A multitude of new films may be released at cinemas around Athens
every week, but there are still chances to watch old classics. Once
more, the Greek Film Center presents the “Appointment with the
Classics” series at the Trianon Filmcenter, a program which began
last November and will run to April 23.

Screenings take place every Saturday at 4.30 p.m. and the program for
the coming weeks is as follows: this Saturday, February 12, features
Polish filmmaker Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s 1961 film “Matka Joanna od
aniolow” (Joan of the Angels), set in the 17th century, in which a
Catholic official is summoned to exorcize a nun in a convent in a
small town. The film stars Lucyna Winnicka and Mieczyslaw Voit. Five
shorts by Alain Resnais will be screened on February 19, including
“Nuit et brouillard” (Night and Fog), a 1955 short which proves that
cinema is not just about viewing but also about memory.

A love story that unravels the legends and the pace of life in an
Armenian village is next on the agenda, in Sergei Parajanov’s 1964
film “Tini zabutykh predkiv” (The Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors),
starring Ivan Mikolajchuk and Tatyana Bestayeva, which will be shown
on February 26, while Krzysztof Zanussi’s “Bilans Kwartanly” (A
Woman’s Decision) of 1975, a film where the director seeks the truth
in the face of a woman who tries to halt the ravages of time, will be
screened on March 5. Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 documentary “Chung
Kuo-Cina” (China) will give the audience a taste of China on March
19, to be followed by Dziga Vertov’s “Chelovek s kinoapparatom” (The
Man with a Camera) of 1929 on March 26, considered one of cinema’s
most modern films, in which a man goes around the city with a camera
on his shoulder and documents urban life.

Saturday, April 2’s screening will feature Grigori Kozintsev and
Iosif Shapiro’s take on “Hamlet,” in their 1964 “Gamlet,” starring
Innokenti Smoktunovsky in the lead role; Alain Resnais’s 1959 drama
about love and memory, “Hiroshima Mon Amour” (Hiroshima My Love),
starring Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada, a film that was also shown
in open-air cinemas last summer, will be screened on April 9.

The series will end with Leo McCarey’s classic 1933 comedy “Duck
Soup,” featuring the Marx Brothers, on April 16, and Pier Paolo
Pasolini’s “Mamma Roma” of 1962 on April 23, the story of a
middle-aged prostitute in Rome who decides to quit and stars the
striking Anna Magnani.

The Trianon Filmcenter is situated at 21 Kodringtonos, tel
210.822.2702.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress