Set In GREECE and LA, 'Bourne 5' to Explore Espionage in a 'Post-Snowden' World: Matt Damon

The actor confirmed that the movie will be set partly in a GREECE under the throes of the economic crisis, partly in Las Vegas, USA. In Damon's own ...

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Watch the 2nd Teaser of Our New Documentary “The GREEK”

GREEK Reporter has undertaken the task to turn meaningful GREEK stories into documentaries and Chatzis' story was one of the first to film. This young ...

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'Bourne 5' Set In GREECE ; Tommy Lee Jones And Julia Stiles In The Cast?

Actor Matt Damon has revealed that the upcoming movie "Bourne 5" may be set in GREECE and new cast members will join the film, including Julia ...

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Top 10 International Films Shot in Greece

The place of the stars is in the sky and they are there to inspire imagination and romance… But when the “stars” decide to come to Greece, they set off a frantic explosion among the cinephile public. From Sophia Loren on “Boy on a Dolphin” film ...

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Matt Damon Says New Bourne Film Inspired By Edward Snowden & Greek Financial Crisis

It has been 8 years since Matt Damon (EuroTrip) played Jason Bourne -- 2007s The Bourne Ultimatum. Since then, the world has changed quite a bit ...

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Greek-French Academy Award Winner Desplat to Close Athens Open Air Film Festival

This year’s Athens Open Air Film Festival will come to an end on Saturday, September 5, with a special screening at the Greek Film Archive. Greek-French composer and Academy Award winner Alexandre Desplat, who performed at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus a few days ago, will attend the special screening of Wes Anderson’s 2009 film

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'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2': Nia Vardalos Talks Sequel Delay, Possible Third Film

Thirteen years after My Big Fat Greek Wedding hit theaters, grossed $241 million at the domestic box office and became one of the most successful ...

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Opa! TODAY goes behind the scenes of the 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' sequel

It's been 13 years since its release, but "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is getting a long-awaited sequel. "We're calling this the Greekquel," the film's ...

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My Big, Fat Greek Sneak Peek

In 2002, My Big, Fat Greek Wedding, written by Nia Vardalos, who also starred in the leading role as Toula Portokalos, came out of nowhere to become the highest-grossing romantic comedy in American film history – and the highest-grossing film of all time never to rise all the way to #1 at the U.S. box […] The post My Big, Fat Greek Sneak Peek appeared first on The National Herald.

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First look at My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 as behind-the-scenes picture released

The first behind-the-scenes look at upcoming film My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 has been released and it's got us feeling all nostalgic. Featuring ...

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Andrew Haigh: ‘It takes a kind of insane self-belief to go on’

The British director won acclaim with his 2001 drama Weekend, about a fleeting love affair between two men. His new film, 45 Years, stars Charlotte Rampling and tells the moving story of an elderly couple facing marital crisis. Here he talks about relationships, identity, and the hard slog of making it in the moviesIt could be used as a new critical yardstick: how long does a film stay with you after you leave the cinema? Can it be dismissed in the time it takes to wipe a cheek with a handkerchief? Director and writer Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, based on a story by David Constantine, is in that rare category of films that continues to move, is subtly shattering and does not loosen its hold. It is about a couple in their 70s, outstandingly played by Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay, who are about to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary when a letter arrives with news that threatens the balance of their marriage and reminds them – and us – of the unknowability of others. The past, as LP Hartley famously put it, is another country and, in this film, what happened there is open to drastic reinterpretation.On a breezy summer morning, I meet Andrew Haigh – good-looking, bearded, engaging – in a hotel in Holborn which everyone appears to be treating like a second office (the room in which we talk is called “The Study”). The film is a new departure for him: his first features were about young gay men. His debut, Greek Pete (2009), described a year in the life of a London rent boy. His second, Weekend (2001), was a melancholy film about a passion that ambushes two men over a single weekend and which achieved cult status at speed. It won Haigh the London Critics’ Circle award for breakthrough British film-maker and he made it on to the New York Times list of 20 international directors to watch (the only UK director on the list). But he tells me now that the difficulty with making gay films is that “because there is so little gay representation on screen” the gay element tends to overshadow other critical issues. And being typecast as a “gay film-maker” can be divisive: “There is still this weird feeling that gay people are fundamentally different from straight people when, actually, we have similar fears and doubts and hopes – although we might have slightly more emotional baggage to drag along for being a minority.” He needed to unburden himself of some of his ideas in a non-gay framework. Continue reading...

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First Greek Animated Movie Presented at Kalamata Filmhouse

Filmhouse, Kalamata’s new film club is participating in the “Cultural Summer” event organized by the public welfare institution Faris and the Municipality of Kalamata, Peloponnese. The film club will present the first Greek animated feature film “From Earth to the Moon” as inspired by creator Angelos Spartalis at Cafe Cine, in Kalamata west beach), on

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“The Lobster” to open the Anonimul Festival

Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster,” winner of the Jury’s Award at Cannes 2015, will be screened at the opening of the Anonimul International Independent Film Festival, which will take place on August 17-23 in Danube Delta’s Sfantu Gheorghe. Greece’s Yorgos Lanthimos became known after “Dogtooth,” his 2009 film, won the Un Certain Regard Award in Cannes […]

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The 10 best things to do this week

From Ben Whishaw’s contribution to the Greek tragedy theatre boom to rockumentarian Julien Temple talking about his Wilko Johnson biopic, here are some of the most interesting cultural activities over the next seven daysTHEATREBakkhai Continue reading...

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Greek drama: director Costas Gavras on reflecting a country in crisis in film

Franco-Greek filmmaker "Costa-Gavras":http://www.filmdirectorssite.com/constantin-costa-gavras has been watching the country of his birth lurch…

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Noted German Film Maker on Ancient and Modern Greece

  NEW YORK – In great cities like New York, everything comes together. On June 16 the television program LIVE From The New York Public Library (NYPL) and the Onassis Cultural Center presented renowned German author and film maker Werner Herzog in conversation with LIVE’s host Paul Holdengraber. Their fascinating discussion ranged from ancient Greece’s […] The post Noted German Film Maker on Ancient and Modern Greece appeared first on The National Herald.

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John Stamos is all smiles on My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 set after DUI

That film was centred around middle-class Greek American woman, Toula, who falls in love with non-Greek upper middle class Protestant Ian.

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3rd Annual Syros International Film Festival Kicks Off in July

Syros is a magical island with a strong cultural and industrial past, and an urban aura that few places in Greece have. It is no wonder that the island hosts not one but many festivals from classical music to animation. The annual Syros International Film Festival has been scheduled to take place between July 3 and 12. Traditional spaces across the island will be used as screening areas in an attempt to highlight the island’s heritage while the program will include independent films, thematic screenings, workshops, lectures and exhibitions. This year the organization team opted to launch a research laboratory-residency for audiovisual arts, to be held at the Monastery of Ano Syros, as well as a drive-in cinema at Posidonia. The opening ceremony will include MAKI, a cinema-performance group from Grenoble, France, who have prepared a unique projection-performance using 16mm film. The festival’s first series of lectures and debates will be hosted at the Apollo theater and their aim is to map the transition from film to digital format. The list of speakers includes names such as film directors Peter Greenaway, Albert Serra and Eva Stefani. The festival will include a thematic program called “Where: Cinemas of Place,” with modern and classic films, both documentaries and fiction of Greek and foreign origin. A drive-in cinema will also be part of the festival, as well as the “One Off” program, a unique look at American filmmakers who have only completed one feature film.

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Fascinating Flicks at 9th Los Angeles Greek Film Festival

 By Vasilis Papoutsis – West Coast Correspondent LOS ANGELES – The LA Greek film festival concluded its five day run at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood with the spectacular Orpheus Awards  ceremony, honoring two hugely successful Greek-American professionals in the entertainment industry and giving out top awards in each category of the 35 films shown. The […] The post Fascinating Flicks at 9th Los Angeles Greek Film Festival appeared first on The National Herald.

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3rd Annual Syros International Film Festival Kicks Off in July

Syros is a magical island with a strong cultural and industrial past, and an urban aura that few places in Greece have. It is no wonder that the island hosts not one but many festivals from classical music to animation. The annual Syros International Film Festival has been scheduled to take place between July 3 and 12. Traditional spaces across the island will be used as screening areas in an attempt to highlight the island’s heritage while the program will include independent films, thematic screenings, workshops, lectures and exhibitions. This year the organization team opted to launch a research laboratory-residency for audiovisual arts, to be held at the Monastery of Ano Syros, as well as a drive-in cinema at Posidonia. The opening ceremony will include MAKI, a cinema-performance group from Grenoble, France, who have prepared a unique projection-performance using 16mm film. The festival’s first series of lectures and debates will be hosted at the Apollo theater and their aim is to map the transition from film to digital format. The list of speakers includes names such as film directors Peter Greenaway, Albert Serra and Eva Stefani. The festival will include a thematic program called “Where: Cinemas of Place,” with modern and classic films, both documentaries and fiction of Greek and foreign origin. A drive-in cinema will also be part of the festival, as well as the “One Off” program, a unique look at American filmmakers who have only completed one feature film.

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