Margarita Siotou
Posted in Festival Interview

FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: ‘Diane Keaton’ lead actress Margarita Siotou

Blessed with an array of interview opportunities for Georgia Michailidi’s short film ‘Diane Keaton‘ for the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival, the lead actress Margarita Siotou…

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Posted in Cannes World Cinema

Festival de Cannes: Parental Issues, Lies & Control in Dogtooth (2009)

Everything we learn in life comes from the way we are brought into the world, and how our parents teach us. From the accents we…

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Never on Sunday
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Festival de Cannes Review: Pote tin Kyriaki / Never on Sunday (1960)

Prix d’interprétation féminine – Melina Mercouri Writer-director, Jules Dassin (Rififi, Topkapi), and actress, Melina Mercouri, were married in real life, in 1966. Years after meeting,…

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Posted in Uncensored World Cinema

Around the World in 80 Films: Dogtooth

Dogtooth comes from the warped mind of Yorgos Lanthimos, who divided audiences with last years brilliantly wonderful, if not disturbing film The Killing of a…

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Masterpiece Memo: The Greek Blues With Rembetiko

Costas Ferris’ extraordinary, sinfully under-seen, Rembetiko from 1983, begins and ends with the music. Literally. Your ears are in for a real Greek treat – baglamas,…

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100 Explorations of World Cinema – Dah

“[Abbas] Kiarostami gave the Iranian cinema the international credibility that it has today. But his films were unfortunately not seen as much in Iran. He…

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100 Explorations of World Cinema – Sechs

“I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But…

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100 Explorations of World Cinema – Tria

“The heart-wrenching musical drama unfolds as (Costas) Ferris – a respected songwriter – uses the rembetiko as a source of pride amid the chaos. The…

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100 Explorations of World Cinema – Uno

“I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life…

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Review: Suntan

Argyris Papadimitropoulos is an okay director, nothing spectacular, we knew that already. Makis Papadimitriou already proved himself in the recent Chevalier so I wasn’t too…

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