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    Kathimerini, Greece
    Feb 10 2005

    Film classics at the Trianon

    Organized by the Greek Film Center, tribute takes place on Saturday
    afternoons and runs to April 23


    Lovers. Eiji Okada and Emmanuelle Riva in Alain Resnais's 1959 drama
    'Hiroshima Mon Amour.' The film will be screened at the Trianon
    Filmcenter on April 9.
    A multitude of new films may be released at cinemas around Athens
    every week, but there are still chances to watch old classics. Once
    more, the Greek Film Center presents the "Appointment with the
    Classics" series at the Trianon Filmcenter, a program which began
    last November and will run to April 23.

    Screenings take place every Saturday at 4.30 p.m. and the program for
    the coming weeks is as follows: this Saturday, February 12, features
    Polish filmmaker Jerzy Kawalerowicz's 1961 film "Matka Joanna od
    aniolow" (Joan of the Angels), set in the 17th century, in which a
    Catholic official is summoned to exorcize a nun in a convent in a
    small town. The film stars Lucyna Winnicka and Mieczyslaw Voit. Five
    shorts by Alain Resnais will be screened on February 19, including
    "Nuit et brouillard" (Night and Fog), a 1955 short which proves that
    cinema is not just about viewing but also about memory.

    A love story that unravels the legends and the pace of life in an
    Armenian village is next on the agenda, in Sergei Parajanov's 1964
    film "Tini zabutykh predkiv" (The Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors),
    starring Ivan Mikolajchuk and Tatyana Bestayeva, which will be shown
    on February 26, while Krzysztof Zanussi's "Bilans Kwartanly" (A
    Woman's Decision) of 1975, a film where the director seeks the truth
    in the face of a woman who tries to halt the ravages of time, will be
    screened on March 5. Michelangelo Antonioni's 1972 documentary "Chung
    Kuo-Cina" (China) will give the audience a taste of China on March
    19, to be followed by Dziga Vertov's "Chelovek s kinoapparatom" (The
    Man with a Camera) of 1929 on March 26, considered one of cinema's
    most modern films, in which a man goes around the city with a camera
    on his shoulder and documents urban life.

    Saturday, April 2's screening will feature Grigori Kozintsev and
    Iosif Shapiro's take on "Hamlet," in their 1964 "Gamlet," starring
    Innokenti Smoktunovsky in the lead role; Alain Resnais's 1959 drama
    about love and memory, "Hiroshima Mon Amour" (Hiroshima My Love),
    starring Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada, a film that was also shown
    in open-air cinemas last summer, will be screened on April 9.

    The series will end with Leo McCarey's classic 1933 comedy "Duck
    Soup," featuring the Marx Brothers, on April 16, and Pier Paolo
    Pasolini's "Mamma Roma" of 1962 on April 23, the story of a
    middle-aged prostitute in Rome who decides to quit and stars the
    striking Anna Magnani.

    The Trianon Filmcenter is situated at 21 Kodringtonos, tel
    210.822.2702.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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