Among them works by Picasso, Matis, Monet and Gauguin

Seven paintings, among them works by Picasso, of Matisse, of Monet and Gauguin, were stolen on the night of Monday to Tuesday from the Kunsthalle Rotterdam, as the Dutch police announced today.

“This morning seven works of art were stolen from the Kunsthalle in Rotterdam. After the permission of the owners, police can now release photos of the works", the police said in a statement.

The burglary took place at approx 03:00 (04:00 Greece time), according to police.

"Police are interviewing potential witnesses and reviewing CCTV footage", the police statement adds, which points out that “according to the first evidence, it appears that the burglary was well prepared".

The works that belonged to the great Dutch collector and billionaire Willem Cordia, they were on loan to the museum for the anniversary 20 years of the Triton Institute. The billionaire's collection has been exhibited in the past, but it was the first time that all these works of supreme historical importance and great value had been exhibited together in an exhibition entitled “Avants Guardes: The collection of the Triton Foundation”.

According to information the robbers “they were waiting” these works quite some time, and the fact that they were all exposed together made the robbery very tempting.

The works are "Harlequin" by Pablo Picasso, "The Woman Reading in White and Yellow" by Henri Matisse, "Waterloo Bridge" and "Charing Cross Bridge" by Claude Monet, the "Woman in front of an open window, the fiancee' by Paul Gauguin, Meyer de Haan's 'Self-Portrait' and Lucian Freud's 'Woman with Closed Eyes'.

"An investigation has been launched and experts are on the scene", said Patricia Wessels, Dutch police spokesman. "We are looking at how (the perpetrators) managed to enter' the museum, Wessels pointed out, "what time and who committed this theft".

Source : protothema.gr

Above 85.000 they saw the film by Yannis Smaragdis in four days

It is relatively difficult to talk about triumph, but everything shows that his last film Yannis Smaragdis "God Loves Caviar" has already touched the pulse of a very large part of the Greek cinema-going public. Possibly of course, to have also touched the pulse of an audience that needs a very good reason to go to the cinema where they otherwise don't usually go. Why indeed, regardless of its quality, the film dealing with the life and state of Ioannis Varvakis is a cinematic event for Greece.

According to the data provided to BIMA by the film's distribution company, Feelgood Entertainment, "Caviar" exceeded the 85,000 tickets during the last four days (it had opened in theaters last year, Thursday 11 October).

The number of tickets is indeed very large although we should remember that the film opened in 119 halls together with those located outside Athens but also in Cyprus. From the 85.000 tickets, Feelgood points out that the 50.000 approximately were cut in theaters in Athens.

According to the same company, the gross opening of "Caviar" is one of the best of the year, while on Saturday 13 October tickets doubled compared to Thursday and Friday and many theaters were turning people away.

Regarding the reception of the public, opinions as always in these movie cases, they are varied.  As we learned from the testimonies of viewers found at last weekend's screenings,  there were spectators who jeered during the screenings but also spectators who applauded standing up after the screening. This image was described to us by a spectator who watched "Caviar" at EMBASSI in Kolonaki Square.

However, it will be of great interest to see how the film moves in its second week of release because it will determine whether "God Loves Caviar" really has a rich future ahead of it or whether it will be a deflated balloon..

Source : tovima.gr

From this week, new shows raise their curtain

The premieres are starting to come out, like mushrooms, after the first crumbs…. From this week, the theater returns to its normal rhythms, with the new shows raising their curtain, almost on a daily basis.


The third bell is about to ring immediately in three central theaters:

Giorgos Kimoulis proposes an "Interview": He interprets a discredited, most, a war correspondent who accidentally meets a TV star _played by Dimitra Matsouka. The relationship that develops between them is …conflict. This is the work of Holman and Van Gogh that we met on the big screen first in the Dutch production with the signature of Theo Van Gogh (2003), and then the American one , the 2007 by Steve Buscemi _who co-starred with Sienna Miller.  Kimoulis directs and co-writes the translation and adaptation with Akis Dimos. The scenography is by Yannis Metzikofs. Premiere on Friday 12 October, in the Athens theater, at 21.00. Performances every Thursday and Friday at 21.00, every Saturday at 18.00 and 21.00 and every Wednesday at 19.00.  

On Friday, Grigoris Valtinos also starts at the Ilisia theater (in the photo on the left), with John Presley's play "The Inspector Comes" in his own performance – directing. With him are Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos and Kerasia Samaras, Manos Zaharakos, Kostas Vasardanis, Eftychia Giakoumis and Stavros Nikolaidis.

Third premiere, on Friday, with "Our Big Circus" of Iakovos Campanellis, the show that toured all summer and is now installed at the Acropolis theater, ushering in the new season. Directed by Sotiris Hatzakis and with music by Stavros Xarchakos, the work written in the post-colonial period, carries its pulse to today. They play: George Armenis, Tasos Nousias, Marina Aslanoglou et al.