Film classics at the Trianon
Organized by the Greek Film Center, tribute takes
place on Saturday afternoons and runs to April 23
Kathimerini (Athens)
Thursday February 10, 2005
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.
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