Category: Film
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Greek Cinema at UChicago (Fall 2016)
With the cooperation of Hellenic Student Association of University of Chicago we presented a comedy on Greek Elections and how they influenced a Greek village in Crete. The American Elections were to take place only three days after this screening. A presentation was given by Dr Chrysanthi Koutsiviti to make the film more approachable to…
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Greek Cinema in UChicago (Fall 2015)
MODERN GREEK CINEMA IN UCHICAGO COBB 218/ 6:00’ p.m. – 8:00’ p.m. TUESDAY 10/20 LITTLE ENGLAND Two Greek sisters fall for the same sturdy sea captain in Little England (Mikra Anglia), a lush melodrama from Pantelis Voulgaris that’s based on the bestseller by the veteran director’s better half, Ioanna Karystiani. A woman’s picture in the most positive sense of…
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An homage to the Modern Greek Cinema – Some suggestions
1. Reconstruction (1970), “Anaparastasi” (original title) A woman murders her husband, upon his return home after a long absence, with the complicity of the lover who has relieved her loneliness. Costas Ghoussis, an emigrant recently returned to his native country, is coming back from the fields, a shovel on his shoulder. He pushes open…