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Curzon on Demand: The Double Life of Veronique

18 April 2012 6:43 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Andrew Pulver reveals the sixth of seven films to be offered for free to Guardian Extra members through Curzon on Demand

Krzysztof Kieślowski's dream-fable of women's parallel lives recalls a time of unapologetically highbrow film-making

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Not so long ago, in the early 1990s in fact, art cinema actually mattered – far more than thrillers with TV-show-quoting hitmen or superheroes in tight trousers. Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski was then the leading figure in what we now realise was the last gasp of a certain kind of high-minded, unapologetically intellectual film-making; its cut-off point, in retrospect, was the defeat of Kieślowski's Three Colours Red by Pulp Fiction at the 1994 Cannes film festival.

Perhaps, if we analyse the period more closely, this »

- Andrew Pulver

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Theo Angelopoulos: a career in clips

25 January 2012 4:25 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Greek director Theo Angelopoulos has died in a road accident aged 76. Here we look back at his body of work, which included The Travelling Players, Ulysses Gaze and Landscape in the Mist

The Travelling Players (1975)

Theo Angelopoulos's breakthrough film is a political allegory in disguise; a leftist analysis of democracy, fascism and national identity, shrewdly gussied up as the tale of a theatre tour through the Greek provinces and shot under the noses of the country's military junta. Rigorous, spartan, and yet brimming over with pungent mythic allusions, The Travelling Players established its creator as one of the most distinctive European directors of his generation.

Landscape in the Mist (1988)

The director hit the road again with this stark, soulful tale of two runaways in search of their missing father. The way ahead leads through misty towns and snowy wilderness, while the early social-realist air tilts, by degrees, towards surrealism. »

- Xan Brooks

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Theo Angelopoulos Dead After Being Hit by Motorcycle: Landscape In The Mist, Eternity And A Day

24 January 2012 2:47 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos died earlier today at a hospital near Athens. Angelopoulos had suffered serious head injuries after being hit by a motorcycle while crossing a road. He was 76. [Addendum: Angelopoulos died while filming The Other Sea, the third installment in a trilogy initiated with The Weeping Meadow and The Dust of Time (see below).] Known for his deliberately paced, dreamlike films, Angelopoulos and his movies won a number of awards from critics and at film festivals around the world. In 1995, for instance, Angelopoulos' Ulysses' Gaze won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Upon receiving his runner-up award, a none-too-pleased Angelopoulos' told those in attendance: "If this is what you have to give me, I have nothing to say." He then walked off without bothering to pose for photographers. Having learned their lesson, three years later Cannes' jurors gave Angelopoulos' the Palme d'Or for Eternity and a Day. Among Angelopoulos' other films are Voyage to Cythera,, Days of 36, The Travelling Players, and the slow-moving but unbelievably beautiful Landscape in the Mist. »

- Andre Soares

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