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Dustin Hoffman in… Greek board

"The lives of others" in the Athenian theater

Dustin Hoffman is, in duplicate, the protagonist of the upcoming theater season in Athens. That's because both films in which he won an Oscar for Best Actor will be played, prepared, on the board. "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "The Rain Man" -ή «Rainman», they are transferred in the winter to the stages of the Emporikon and Bretania theaters, respectively. A decade apart, the first is his production 1979 and his second 1988, while they are the ones who gave it to him, for the role of Ted Kramer and Raymond Rabbit the two Oscars of his career, until now at least….

Next to these two film adaptations, and a third, German production, comes to the Athens theater from autumn: The Oscar-winning best foreign film will be shown at the Thision theater (2006) by screenwriter and director Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck "The Lives of Others" -which also set a record number of nominations at the German Film Awards.

More detailed, directed by Eleni Scotti - who alongside her work at Epi Colonos theater with the group NAMMA- and performed by Mirella Papaikonomou, the Kramers will be brought to life by Dimitris Alexandris and Maria Zorba - Meryl Streep then won her first Oscar, for the second female role, as a wife and mother. On the subject of a couple's life after divorce and especially the way their young son experiences it, the production also won the Oscar for Best Picture 1979 while also achieving great box-office success. Directed and written by Robert Benton _based on the book by Avery Corman. The Greek production of Hellenic Theamaton for the Emporikon theater stage, includes among its contributors Dimitris Papadimitriou (music) and George Gavalas (scenery). Also playing are Athina Maximou, Christodoulos Stylianou, Dimitris Mavros and (alternately) three children.

Dimitris Lignadis brings to the stage of the central Bretania theater "Man of the Rain" with Christos Chatzipanagiotis and Yiannis Stankoglou, in the roles of the two brothers played by Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, in the late 80s. The movie, directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass, it received rave reviews at the time, and alongside Hoffman's Oscar, it also won an Oscar for Best Picture, Director and Original Screenplay. Its theme is the story of a selfish yuppie, by Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his estranged father has died and left his entire fortune to his other son, the autistic Raymond, whose existence he was completely unaware of. The film was also a box office success…

End at Thision of Tournavitou Street, Alice Danezi – Knutsen, whom we met through the theater "Festen", in the same place six years ago, suggests "The Lives of Others", in the translation of Eris Kyrgia and the scenery of Kiki Pitta. This is the play by Albert Ostermeier based on the film by Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck: Based in East Berlin 1984, the play deals with the story of the famous playwright Georg Dreimann and his actress partner Christa – Maria Silland being watched by the Stasi spy, Gerd Whistler at the indirect prompting of the infatuated minister Bruno Hepf. When the spy as an uninvited "guest" and witness to the lives of others begins to harbor feelings of sympathy for the unsuspecting couple, nothing can stay the same anymore. Actors play: Anna Masha (Krista – Maria Silland), Manolis Mavromatakis (Gerd Whistler), Fanis Mouratidis (Georg Dreyman), Costas Berikopoulos (Bruno Hepf), Giorgos Symeonidis Mr. a. It is a production of the Lykofos company of Giorgos Lykiardopoulos.

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Free screenings of European films

Film program of European cinema from the Society of Greek Directors

The screenings of European films, including Greek ones, continue in the small summer hall of the garden of the Association of Greek Archaeologists, Hermou 134-136 in Thisio.

"Paradise Cinema" movies have already been shown, "The Choir of Charitonos", "Mad Pierrot", "Plato Academy", "Summer Stories" and "Let the Women Wait".

Screenings take place every week, Tuesday and Thursday, time 21.30 pm. μ. and entry is free.

The effort is a collaboration between the Society of Greek Directors and the Hellenic Association
Archaeologists.

The screening program continues in August with the following films:

Thursday 02 August 2012 "A Tender Kiss", directed by Ken Loach
Tuesday 07 August 2012 "Chiu", directed by Maki Papadimitratou
Thursday 09 August 2012 "A Story of Love and Anarchy", directed by Lina Wertmiller
Tuesday 21 August 2012 "Common Quiet Hours", directed by Katerina Evangelakou
Thursday 23 August 2012 «Match point», directed by Woody Allen
Tuesday 28 August 2012, “What did you do in the War, Death;», directed by Dino Katsouridis
Thursday 30 August 2012 "The Voice of the Moon", directed by Federico Fellini.

Show time 9.30pm. μ. Free Entry

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Maybeshewill in Greece, for two concerts

Catch The Soap Productions and Lovelight Productions present the British post rock band «Maybeshewill», who will give two concerts in our country Friday 21 September in Athens and on Saturday 22 September, in Thessaloniki.

Explosive guitar outbursts, enchanting interludes and exciting electronic interventions, in a sound that transcends manners with ease, offering a much-needed breath of creative freshness to the modern instrumental rock scene. Οι Maybeshewill, the outstanding British post rock quartet, they are coming for two unique appearances in Athens and Thessaloniki, on the An Club and Eightball Club stages, on Friday 21 and Saturday 22 September respectively.

Formed it 2005 by Robin Southby and John Helps, they prove from their very first steps their special musical vision and their uncompromising philosophy. The special mix of heavy guitar rock, electronic beats, and cinematic music composition is clearly captured on the band's stunning debut “Japanese Spy Transcript” – a debut that will manage to catch the eyes of fans of the fresh post rock sound worldwide from the first moment. The record will be released by Robot Needs Home, the indie label founded by Maybeshewill themselves with the sole purpose of supporting the Leicester scene - from which they emerged - true to their sense of camaraderie and DIY ethos.

The sequel will be just as dynamic as his "Not for Want of Trying". 2008 to emerge from the (extremely selective) Radio 1 of the BBC as album of the week and with last year's “I Was Here For A Moment, Then I Was Gone” establishing them as one of the most important names in instrumental/post rock/electronica, Maybeshewill will continue to grow their already large fanbase with joint appearances alongside equally important names in the post rock scene, but also with world sold out tours in Europe and Asia. Almost three years after their unforgettable appearance on Greek soil, the unique Maybeshewill hopefully return to Athens and Thessaloniki on 4 and 5 May respectively to show us the most mature and creative side of their career.

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Knife, Carotone, Starovas, Aranguren – Summer tour

The dynamic presence of Lavrentis Machairitsa continues this summer, since he will tour with Tonino Carotone among others, Piluka Arangure, while he will once again be joined by Dimitris Starovas in concerts throughout Greece.

Lavrentis Machairitsas, after the unique success of his new double CD entitled "Angels Still Live in the Mediterranean", which was released in April 2012 from EMI, and in which Lavrentis Machairitsas and Tonino Carotone perform two amazing duets, "Like an American" and "Bittersweet" – which have already experienced great radio success – and the big Concert that will take place at the Kallimarmaro Stadium on Monday 9 July (with the presence of great foreign and Greek artists, like Adamo, or Branduardi, o Christophe, etc.), has the honor and pleasure to tour for the first time throughout Greece, with an elite foreign artist, the subversive Basque troubadour, τον Tonino Carotone!

Ο Tonino Carotone, brainchild of Manu Chao, begins his solo career 2000 with the album Mondo Difficile and the success of Me cago en el amor that made half the world crazy, singing E un mondo difficile…and uncertain future… The gentleman in the amazing suit, the big hairdo and the floppy hat, is an authentic exponent of contemporary folk music that carries the spirit of the street, with humor and obvious social sensitivity. His songs exude something old-fashioned yet highly entertaining, and his lyrics are often ironic., sarcastic or even surreal. In his music, combines elements from punk with great mastery, will, reggae, latin, rock but also from Spanish, Italian, French, and Mexican folk music.

The versatile... "Agamos Thytis" Dimitris Starovas, whose humorous and artistic talent each time overflows with a unique combination of good music, subversive verse, satire and self-mockery! Each of his appearances takes on the dimension of an essential communicative explosion with comments, songs and laughter from everyone. Of the same, of the musicians and the audience! The group of men is graced with the presence of the impressive Spanish singer Piluka, former associate of Amparanoia and permanent partner of Tonino Carotone.

Lavrentis Machairitsas, ο Tonino Carotone, o Dimitris Starovas and Piluka, they promise a program full of twists and surprises! The audience will be able to enjoy a special musical performance with great performances and distinctive voices, as well as an exciting marriage of Greek and foreign repertoire, they will take us on a journey… throughout the Mediterranean, because "Angels still live in the Mediterranean".

TOUR SCHEDULE
03/8 Naxos– A’ Primary school
04/8 Paros – Parikia Municipal Stadium
06/8 Tinos – Baths
08/8 Kefalonia - Sami bathing beach
09/8 Ithaca – Gymnasium garden theater
13/8 Zante– Open Theater
18/8 Kassandra of Halkidiki – Amphitheater of Siviris
22/8 Sparta – Sainopouleio Amphitheater
17/9 Patras

Ticket Prices: 12 euro (presale) & 15 euro (fund)

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Pioneering filmmaker Chris Marker has died

The "Farewell Station" from his classic films

At the age 91 years, a day after his birthday, the French pioneer filmmaker Chris Marker died, who was recognized as one of the most important documentarians of post-war cinema.
Born in Neigi on 29 July, Christian Francois Bouchet Villeneuve, as his real name was, began by writing poems and literary essays to later turn to cinema, with the first film "Olympia 52" filmed in 1952.
Marker's film that put him in the pantheon of top filmmakers is his 28-minute masterpiece Farewell Station («La Jetee d’Orly»), production 1962 , a sci-fi war thriller that etched itself into the memory of the cinephile audience and was remade 1997 by Terry Gilliam as the "12 Monkeys". 1978 his film The Deep Sky is Red was a rather negative critical account of the events of May 1968 in a film-memoir on recent political history.
At the end of his decade 1980, 13 Greek words/concepts on which philosophers discuss , mathematicians , artists and intellectuals ,prompted Marker to compose The Owl's Legacy (1989), an embroidery 13 thirty-minute documentary.
The pan-Hellenic premiere of the above composition took place at the 24th "Cinema and Reality" festival.
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Greek presence at the Venice festival

George Zois' upward trajectory continues with the "Final Titles"

Another Greek success in the cinematography took place today, as announced by the Venice Film Festival, the short film "End Titles" by the director Giorgos Zois was selected to be screened in the Orizzonti section of the 69th Film Festival to be held by 28 August until 8 September. It is not the first time that Mostra hosts the director. As you know, the prominent course of the "Casus belli", of Zoi's previous film, started at the Venice festival 2009.

Zois' film is the only Greek presence at this year's Mostra, whose competitive program appears quite reduced with 17 just titles. Among them Terrence Malick's latest film "To the wonder" with Rachel McAdams and Ben Affleck, Harmony Korine's "Spring speakers" with James Franco, Brian De Palma's 'Passion', also with McAdams but also Marco Bellocchio's latest film "Bella addormentata" starring Tony Servillo, main actor in the unfinished film of Theodoros Angelopoulos "The other sea"

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From ancient Olympia to the ideal of Olympism

Great exhibition in Berlin on the religious, political and social person of the city

A bridge of culture, of trust and cooperation between Greece and Germany is being built these days in Berlin, a few steps away from the old cold war wall: The Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum in Niederkirchnerstrasse - opposite the German Ministry of Economy- is preparing to welcome the exhibition "Olympia: Myth, worship, matches", which will give German visitors the opportunity to get to know the place, the people, the everyday life and history of the holy city-symbol of the Olympic Games and to witness the birth of the sports ideal.

On the occasion of the Olympic Games starting in London in a few days, the exhibition will present to 3.500 sq.m. through 1.000 exhibits the sacred site of ancient Olympia and many aspects of ancient Greek worship and daily life "known to you Greeks, but unknown to the general public of Europe, which we must demonstrate and explain", pointed out Gereon Zyvernich, director of the Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum, during a press conference in Athens, at noon on Tuesday 24 July, which was also attended by the Deputy Minister of Education, of religion, Culture and Sports (Ministry of Health) Kostas Tzavaras, the director of the Hellenic Cultural Foundation Eleftherios Economou, the general secretary of Culture of the Ministry of Culture Lina Mendoni and the general director of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki.

"Through the exhibition it becomes clear what Greece has offered to Europe", the German director commented and the Greek deputy minister remarked that in our troubled times, and on the day of the celebration of 38 years since the restoration of democracy in Greece, "Olympia marks the course of human civilization, opposes the eternal to the perishable and sends a powerful message that reminds us that “Greek way” continues to inspire and move the peoples of the world".

The report is structured in three main thematic sections. The first presents the history of the ancient sanctuary of Olympia from the beginning of the 1st BC. millennium to the end of the Roman times, the political dimension of Olympia and its contribution to the formation of Hellenism are demonstrated and presented, through vows, representations on vases and other findings, the religious function of the sanctuary, the deities and heroes that were worshiped and the cult ceremonies that took place there.

The second section traces the history of excavations and research in ancient Olympia, by French archaeologists’ first it 1829 and by German archaeologists the 1875, following the thread of archaeological excavations in the area up to the present day.

The third section focuses on sport in Olympia and its social significance. In the rooms that will host this module, visitors to the exhibition will see records, dumbbells and other sports instruments and through angiography and digital representations will be informed about the types of ancient sports. They will also have the opportunity to admire portraits of distinguished spectators of the Games as well as coins and medals that confirm the pan-Hellenic importance of the Games.

1.000 exhibits – 150 are exhibited in a world premiere

Most of the exhibits in the exhibition come from Greek museums, mainly from the Archaeological Museum of Olympia, the National Archaeological Museum and the Numismatic Museum. Overall 564 ancient works will depart for Berlin, together with three modern copies, two models and eight modern commemorative medals. In the exhibition they lend exhibits in total 21 major European museums and institutions, including the Louvre Museum, the Vatican Museum, the Archaeological Museum and Sculpture Gallery of Munich and the National Museum of Rome.

150 Greek findings from excavations of the last decade in Mycenae and elsewhere will be presented for the first time to the general and scientific public and will be published in the catalog accompanying the exhibition.

Exactly 40 years after the last exhibition on the subject of the Olympic Games in Germany, the 1972, at the Munich Olympiad, for the first time such a large number of Greek exhibits cross the borders and are loaned outside of Greece, "an event that expresses trust and is a manifestation of the close bond between the two countries", underlined the director of the Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum.

The exhibition, which is prepared by 2010, organized by the initiative of the Hellenic Cultural Foundation in Berlin and co-organizers the Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum, the Ministry of Education, of religion, Culture and Sports, the German Archaeological Institute and the Berlin State Museums Antiquities Collection and is under the auspices of the President of the Hellenic Republic and. Karolos Papoulias and the President of the Federal Republic of Germany Mr. Joachim Gauck.

Catalogs in German, in English and Greek accompany the exhibition, with essays and descriptions of the exhibits, fruit of cooperation 60 distinguished Greek and foreign scientists.

However, the ambitious exhibition seems like an expensive luxury for the poor economy of the Greek state, the director of the Hellenic Cultural Foundation Eleftherios Economou, answering a question, clarified that "the Greek government was not burdened at all with the costs of the organization". German and Greek private individuals support the exhibition with sponsorships, including the German Savings Banks and the Greek institutions Latsis and Leventis, while Qatar will finance the publication of the English and Greek catalogs.

The exhibition will be hosted by 30 August 2012 until 7 January 2013 at the Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum in Berlin and will then be transferred to Doha, Qatar, where it will be presented at the Sports and Olympic Museum from 28 Of March 2013 until the end of October 2013, supplemented by an appendix on the history of the modern Olympic Games, where evidence from the Athens Games will be presented 1896 and 2004. The final destination of the exhibition will be the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, where we will see her in the winter 2014.

Source : tovima.gr