Antonis (Alexandros Nikolaidis) works as a Gastarbeiter (guest worker) at a metalwerks in the German industrial Ruhr area. The short begins in a bar in 1974 where Antonis is drinking with colleague Rainer (Moritz Zeiske) as the television news addresses the fall of the Greek military dictatorship. Antonis was jailed and beaten in Thessaloniki forContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Gastarbeiter: Sidero-Chalvia”: Will the Estranged Bird Fly Home?”
Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)
RKS Literature: A Girl of 19 vs. a Woman of 29 (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“Whereas a girl of nineteen draws her confidence from a surfeit of attention, a woman of twenty-nine is nourished on subtler stuff. Desirous, she chooses her apéritifs wisely, or, content, she enjoys the caviar of potential power. Happily, she does not seem, in either case, to anticipate the subsequent years when her insight will oftenContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Girl of 19 vs. a Woman of 29 (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Journey into Cyprus: East to West”
“Journey into Cyprus: East to West” is a documentary about a 15-day cross Cyprus hike by Yalcin Adal, a Turkish Cypriot, and Stavros Tszortis, a Greek Cypriot both currently living in Melbourne, Australia. As a result of a 1974 invasion of Cyprus by Turkey, possibly a result of Greek political maneuvering and a failed assassinationContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Journey into Cyprus: East to West””
RKS Literature: Feeling the Jealousy of Youth (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“The only physical disparity between Nicole at present and the Nicole of five years before was simply that she was no longer a young girl. But she was enough ridden by the current youth worship, the moving pictures with their myriad faces of girl-children, blandly represented as carrying on the work and wisdom of theContinue reading “RKS Literature: Feeling the Jealousy of Youth (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
RKS Literature: England and its Orgies (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“An Englishman spoke to him from across the aisle but he found something antipathetic in the English lately. England was like a rich man after a disastrous orgy who makes up to the household by chatting with them individually, when it is obvious to them he is only trying to get back his self respectContinue reading “RKS Literature: England and its Orgies (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Armchair on the Pavement”: No Grapes of Wrath Here
A retired Greek army general is coping with dementia. He has trained battalions in warfare but today can’t remember if he has taken his pills. But he does remember a song on the radio that he and Olga his wife danced to at their wedding. And it brings him joy this song so much heContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Armchair on the Pavement”: No Grapes of Wrath Here”
RKS Literature: Switzerland Land of The Sick and Persona Non-Grata (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“…throughout this hotel there were many chambers wherein rich ruins, fugitives from justice, claimants to the thrones of mediatized principalities, lived on the derivatives of opium or barbital listening eternally as to the inescapable radio, the coarse melodies of old sins. This corner of Europe does not so much draw people as accept them withoutContinue reading “RKS Literature: Switzerland Land of The Sick and Persona Non-Grata (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
RKS 2024 Film: “Consumed”: Horror with a Dual Personality
The Butcher Brothers (Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores) add to their horror output with “Consumed” a dual personality horror film. What or who is the real beast here? Beth (Courtney Halverson) and her husband Jay (Mark Famiglietti) are hiking and camping the wilds of New Jersey ostensibly to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Beth beingContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Consumed”: Horror with a Dual Personality”
The 4th International Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Nothing Holier Than a Dolphin”
Several fishermen, a retired sea captain, a woman and a waitress are in a Greek seaside taverna in the evening. The fishing has not been going well with a mistral making the sea too rough to fish in. A man tells a mythical tale about a fishing village in the Mediterranean experiencing rough winds preventingContinue reading “The 4th International Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Nothing Holier Than a Dolphin””
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Taxi”: Three Times Dead and Ready to be Murdered!
It is the early 1990’s in Cyprus and Soulla drives a taxi. In this short she picks up three passengers on three separate trips and she is eager to tell them the taxi was her late husband’s. He died in a barbeque related accident. Every time she relates how his death occurred it is relatedContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Taxi”: Three Times Dead and Ready to be Murdered!”
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