The breakout 2009 Yorgos Lanthimos film “Dogtooth” commences a North American theatrical release in a 4K restoration format. Parents confine their three adult children in a family compound in a state of childlike innocence through manipulation, violence and abuse. Sexual perversion including incest is omnipresent. Outrageous falsehoods and childlike games and contests preoccupy the adultContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Dogtooth”: 4K Restoration Opens North America 4July2025”
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RKS 2025 Film: “A Hardworking Robber”: Shining Greek Satire
Satire runs heavily through Greek cinema and it shines in a short film from 2013 “A Hardworking Robber” directed and written by Michael Felanis. Makis, owner of an Athenian jewelry and gift store is slothful, lazy and entirely ignorant about customer service and selling his wares. He spends his time drinking coffee, smoking, playing withContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “A Hardworking Robber”: Shining Greek Satire”
27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Death Plan for a Dog and a Man”: The Oracle of Death in Athens Speaks
The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival runs until 16March2025. Slice and dice your interpretation of the Greek documentary “Death Plan for a Dog and a Man” and you just may have nailed down the last nail of the coffin. For lack of a more sophisticated descriptor this is a “fun” film but one with deepContinue reading “27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Death Plan for a Dog and a Man”: The Oracle of Death in Athens Speaks”
RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “The Philosopher: I Have Something to Say”
Greek cinema is multi faceted, but with a strong satirical tradition frequently directed against the traditional pillars of Greek society; the church, politicians, the military and the bureaucracy. In “The Philosopher” the satirical sword cuts a swath through intellectuals, philosophy, religion, television, academia, book publishers and film production. It is a movie about movie production.Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “The Philosopher: I Have Something to Say””
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”
The 4th Annual Greek Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Operation Star”
“Operation Star” is a WW II film set in Northern Greece. British planned Operation Star mission fails. Eight men, 5 Greek and 3 British, are sent to blow up a mountain railway bridge but are ambushed by the Germans leaving two survivors Major Vasilis Kostakis (Konstantinos Lagos) and Seargent Pavlos Linos (Lefteris Dimiropoulos). They mustContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Operation Star””
The 4th Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Lost on Kythera”
“Lost on Kythera” is a comedic spoof not afraid to jab here and there. It carries on a spoofing and satirical streak like Greek cinema of the 1960’s and 1970’s and at times verges on slapstick. Louie (Louie Betton) and Maria (Nancy Boukli) both university students are twenty months into a romantic relationship and haveContinue reading “The 4th Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Lost on Kythera””
RKS Film: “Xenia” Some Eight Years Later
“Xenia” is a 2014 Greek/Belgian/French production. In Greek Xenia means hospitality towards guests and foreigners and is derived from Xenos meaning foreigner. Given that the main characters in the film Ody (Nikos Gelia) and Dany (Kostas Nikouli) are half Greek and Albanian and that Dany is gay in the Greece of 2014 there is notContinue reading “RKS Film: “Xenia” Some Eight Years Later”
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