Retrospective - Theo Angelopoulos

Theodoros Angelopoulos (born 27 April 1935) is a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. Angelopoulos studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, but after his military service went to Paris to attend the Sorbonne. He soon dropped out to study film at the IDHEC (Institute of Advanced Cinematographic Studies) before returning to Greece. There, he worked as a journalist and film critic. In 1978, he was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.

Angelopoulos began making films after the 1967 coup that began the Greek military dictatorship known as the Regime of the Colonels. He made his first short film in 1968 and in the 1970s he began making a series of political feature films about modern Greece: DAYS OF '36 (Meres Tou 36, 1972), THE TRAVELLING PLAYERS (O Thiassos, 1975) and THE HUNTERS (I Kynighoi, 1977). He quickly established a characteristic style, marked by slow, episodic and ambiguous narrative structures as well as long takes (THE TRAVELLING PLAYERS, for example, consists of only 80 shots in about four hours of film). These takes often include meticulously choreographed and complicated scenes involving many actors. His regular collaborators include the cinematographer Giorgos Arvanitis, the screenwriter Tonino Guerra and the composer Eleni Karaindrou. Angelopoulos is considered by British film critics Derek Malcolm and David Thomson as one of the world's greatest living directors. Roger Ebert has stated that Angelopoulos must care very little for his audience.

Filmography:
2011 MUNDO INVISÍVEL (SEGMENT "CÉU INFERIOR")
2008 THE DUST OF TIME
2007 TO EACH HIS OWN CINEMA (SEGMENT "TROIS MINUTES")
2004 TRILOGY: THE WEEPING MEADOW
1998 ETERNITY AND A DAY
1995 LUMIÈRE AND COMPANY (DOCUMENTARY)
1995 TO VLEMMA TOU ODYSSEA
1991 TO METEORO VIMA TOU PELARGOU
1988 LANDSCAPE IN THE MIST
1986 O MELISSOKOMOS
1984 VOYAGE TO CYTHERA
1983 ATHENS, RETURN TO THE ACROPOLIS (TV MOVIE)
1981 OI REPORTERS (TV SERIES DOCUMENTARY)
1981 CHORIO ENA, KATIKOS ENAS (1981)
1980 O MEGALEXANDROS
1977 THE HUNTERS
1975 THE TRAVELING PLAYERS
1972 DAYS OF 36
1970 RECONSTRUCTION
1968 BROADCAST (SHORT)
1965 FORMINX STORY (UNCREDITED)