Παρασκευή 11 Οκτωβρίου 2013
Σάββατο 7 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
Lanthimos in Top-20 directors to watch for NYTimes
Lanthimos in
Top-20 directors to watch for NYTimes
20 Directors to Watch
This is a list of 20 filmmakers to watch. Other than their relative
youth — one turned 40 a few months ago, and several more will join him soon —
they share little besides passion and promise. But bringing them together, and
shining a light on their accomplishments and their potential, seems especially
urgent as another new season of serious moviegoing gets under way. Here’s why:
We are living in a time of cinematic bounty. In multiplexes and beyond, movie
lovers have a greater, more dizzying variety of choices — and of screens, large
and small — than at any time in history.
Yorgos Lanthimos
A group of four people — a cult, a start-up company or something else
entirely — provides grieving families with the peculiar but surprisingly
popular service of impersonating dead loved ones. A mother and father live with
their adult children, who they have raised in isolation from society and
educated in a belief system built around bizarre superstitions and an esoteric
vocabulary. These are the premises of “Alps” and “Dogtooth,” the most recent
features by the Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos. The world of his films is
very strange but also uncannily recognizable. It is not a place of fantasy or
allegory but a zone of possibility protruding at an odd angle from what we
might understand as reality. He does not explain his surreal conceits but
rather presents them with naturalistic rigor, as if he were shooting
documentaries of his own dreams. Or perhaps of a culture’s nightmares.
While the political and economic unraveling of his homeland do not
figure directly in “Alps” or “Dogtooth,” Mr. Lanthimos is part of a generation
of Greek filmmakers who have come into their own in a period of profound and
terrifying crisis. And the feeling of malaise, of living in a condition of
hollowed-out meanings and foreclosed possibilities, haunts his characters, in
particular the young ones. The adult children in “Dogtooth” inhabit a doomed
wonderland, while the ghoulish entrepreneurs of “Alps” fall prey to the
emotional chaos their project is designed to hold at bay.
Official web page: http://www.lanthimos.com
Τετάρτη 4 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
70th Venice Film Festival poster pays tribute to Angelopoulos and Fellini
70th
Venice Film Festival poster pays tribute to Angelopoulos and Fellini
The cinema of Theo Angelopoulos and of Federico
Fellini is celebrated in the image chosen for the new official poster of the
70th Venice International Film Festival.
The festival, directed by Alberto Barbera and organized by the Biennale
di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, will be held at the Lido from August 28
to September 7, 2013.
Created by Simone Massi - the animator, director and illustrator of the
festival’s opening sequence - the image recalls a frame from the film by Theo
Angelopoulos, Eternity and a Day (1998), starring Bruno Ganz. A man seen from
behind waves his arms at a boat which, in the distance, is carrying a child and
a rhinoceros.
A tongue-in-cheek reference to last year’s poster (which was inspired by
Federico Fellini’s 1983 film, And the Ship Sails On), the poster “marks both
continuity and a break with the past. It also invites viewers to look beyond,
to roam using their imagination.”
The coordinated visual identity and image of the Venice Film Festival
has again been handed to Milan’s Studio Graph.X, based on the drawings by
Simone Massi.
Τετάρτη 28 Αυγούστου 2013
Greek triumph in backstroke at 4th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships
Greek triumph
in backstroke at 4th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships
4th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships 2013, Dubai
Apostolos Christou (GRE) swept through the pool with a fine sub-55sec
effort in the men’s 100m back, ensuring a great start of the second day’s
afternoon session. The Greek’s win was never in doubt, he clocked a new
Championship Record. The battle for the silver was a tight one, Danas Rapsys
(LTU) had the better touch-in ahead of Grigory Tarasevich (RUS), by 0.09sec.
Σάββατο 24 Αυγούστου 2013
«The Night Patrols»: Larry Gus new video
«The Night
Patrols»: Larry Gus new video
Hear now: L.A. producer Madlib feted by Larry Gus on
new mixtape
Sometimes it can take a Greek to remind Angelenos — and the rest of the
world — of talent living in our own vicinity. Specifically, producer Larry Gus,
whose recent work for DFA has been on repeat for nearly the entire year, has
collected into one essential mix the fantastic creative output of beat producer
Madlib.
For those unfamiliar, the artist born Otis Jackson Jr. (but also known
as Quasimoto, Beat Konducta and Joe McDuphrey, among dozens of other names) has
over nearly 20 years produced countless deep, abstract jazz and soul-inspired
grooves.
Artists including Mos Def, Erykah Badu, MF Doom, Ghostface Killa, Joey
Bada$$ and dozens more have harnessed Madlib's beats for their rhymes, and Gus
examines some of the best in a selection that blends foundational sample
material with Madlib’s repurposing to craft what amounts to a sonic docudrama
of a master musician.
Σάββατο 20 Ιουλίου 2013
Design Awards 2013 for Athens pastry shop from Travel & Leisure / Διεθνές Βραβείο design για τον Στέλιο Παρλιάρο από το “Travel and Leisure”
Design
Awards 2013 for Athens pastry shop from Travel & Leisure
Best Retail Space – “Sweet Alchemy” by Stelios
Parliaros, Athens
Designed by Stelios Kois for Kois Associated Architects
A confectionery and pastry shop in Athens, Sweet Alchemy creates an
atmosphere of mystery around its many delicacies, presenting them in glass-topped
cases in a space that feels a bit like a sorcerer’s workshop. Jars, bottles,
bins, and trays of candy, jam, chocolate, and pastry fill the rooms, which are
lit dramatically from above; abundant sunlight is refracted through a dense
grid of tall metal shelves, highlighting the shop’s many unfinished-wood and
concrete surfaces and the very refined sweets on display.
To see more click here
Official web page: www.parliaros.gr
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Τρίτη 25 Ιουνίου 2013
Ikaria - Live long and prosper / Ικαρία: Αφιέρωμα των Financial Times στο νησί της μακροζωίας
Ikaria - Live long and prosper
Scientists are trying
to understand why residents of the laid-back Greek island of Ikaria enjoy such
longevity
Ικαρία: Αφιέρωμα των Financial Times στο νησί της μακροζωίας
Στο προσκήνιο και πάλι το
μυστήριο που ακολουθεί τους ντόπιους και το χρόνο που τους έχει ξεχάσει. Μετά
τους New York Times ήρθε η σειρά των Financial Times να αναφερθούν εκτενώς στην
Ικαρία, τις ομορφιές της, αλλά και τα μυστήρια που κρύβει το νησί. Ο συντάκτης
Chris Moss επισκέφτηκε το νησί και μετέφερε στους αναγνώστες της εφημερίδας την
σπάνια εμπειρία του μέσω ενός οδοιπορικού, συστήνοντας το ανεπιφύλακτα για
διακοπές.
Όπως και τόσοι άλλοι ο Moss
εντυπωσιάστηκε από την ηρεμία, την απουσία άγχους, τη χαρά και τη γιορτή της
ζωής που ξεχειλίζουν στην Ικαρία. Δε μπορούσε φυσικά να μην αναφερθεί στο κύριο
χαρακτηριστικό που είναι η μακροζωία των ντόπιων: «Ένας Ικαριώτης είναι 2,5
φορές πιο πιθανό να φτάσει τα 90 χρόνια απ' ότι ένας Αμερικανός, ενώ κατά μέσο
όρο οι κάτοικοι ζουν 10 χρόνια περισσότερο απ' οποιονδήποτε Ευρωπαίο», τονίζει
εντυπωσιασμένος.
Αναφέρεται μάλιστα και σε μια
έρευνα που έχει ξεκινήσει εδώ και 4 χρόνια μια ομάδα από την ιατρική σχολή
Αθηνών, που πήγε στο νησί, πήρε αίμα από τους κατοίκους και μελέτησε εκτενώς
την καθημερινότητά τους, με στόχο να βρουν την άκρη σχετικά με τη φήμη που
ακολουθεί τους κατοίκους.
«Η μαγεία μπορεί να είναι
κρυμμένη στα γονίδια τους, αλλά από την άλλη μπορεί να είναι κάτι σε ότι τρώνε,
σε ότι πίνουν ή κάτι στον αέρα, το οποίο μπορεί να επηρεάσει και τους
τουρίστες» γράφει ο Moss, αναζητώντας και αυτός την απάντηση στο μυστικό της
μακροζωίας.
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