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Cambridge, Sep. 12&16: Angelopoulos Screenings at the Harvard Film Archive

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From: Steffen Pierce <spierce@fas.harvard.edu>

The Harvard Film Archive

presents

Two Screenings of the Film

O MEGALEXANDROS
(ALEXANDER THE GREAT)

by Theodoros Angelopoulos

Friday, September 12 at 7:30 p.m. and
Tuesday, September 16 at 8:30 p.m.

Harvard Film Archive
CARPENTER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS
Harvard University,
24 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138.

Tel: (617) 495-8700


O MEGALEXANDROS

Winner of the Golden Lion award for the best film at the 1980 Venice Film Festival, O MEGALEXANDROS is Angelopoulos' examination of the 'cult of personality.' Set in Greece a few years after the Paris Commune, it is a tale of socialism first deformed and then destroyed by an authoritarian leader. "Through his lens, Angelopoulos looks at things in silence. It is the weight of this silence and the intensity of the immobile stare of Angelopoulos's camera which makes O MEGALEXANDROS so powerful that the viewer cannot break away from the screen. This kind of filmmaking, so personal and unique in its particularity, tends to return to the roots of the cinema. This is precisely what creates the impression of freshness and strength. As for myself, watching this film I deeply felt the pleasure of cinema in the most absolute meaning of the term." -Akira Kurosawa

Angelopoulos is arguably Greece's most important director ever and is one of the top five filmmakers alive today. His cinema constantly challenges, defies and enlightens and given the paucity of screenings of his masterpieces, this event should not be missed.


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