There are few tropes older than one about a person in a desperate search for something in a foreign land. With the refugee crisis that occupied the headlines in the not so distant past, the trope evolved to a sub-genre of its own, to so-called migration cinema. On the surface, “Pari”, a European co-production film by an Iranian filmmaker Siamak Etemadi, could be confused with such a film. But this Berlinale title that premiered in Panorama section of the festival is something completely different: a unique cinema experience that defies simple labeling.
“Pari” is screening at Berlinale 2020
We meet our eponymous protagonist on a plane to Athens. She is played gracefully by Iranian-German actress Melika Foroutan as a quiet, dignified woman who radiates with kindness and whose face, framed by hijab and some of the visible tar-black hair, is still beautiful. Pari is coming to Athens together with her bearded...
“Pari” is screening at Berlinale 2020
We meet our eponymous protagonist on a plane to Athens. She is played gracefully by Iranian-German actress Melika Foroutan as a quiet, dignified woman who radiates with kindness and whose face, framed by hijab and some of the visible tar-black hair, is still beautiful. Pari is coming to Athens together with her bearded...
- 2/26/2020
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
Presenters and winners voice concerns about lack of funding in Greek film industry.
Elina Psykou’s drama Son Of Sofia was the big winner at the Iris Hellenic Film Academy (Helfiac) Awards on Monday evening (April 23), winning five prizes from 13 nominations, including best film and director.
The Last Note from veteran director Pandelis Voulgaris and Dora Masklavanou’s Polyxeni won four awards each.
Son Of Sofia, which won the best international narrative feature award at Tribeca 2017 and played at Sarajevo, Jeonju, Moscow, Stockholm, Cottbus, Gijon, Kolkata and Carthage festivals, was also awarded best screenplay for Psykou, best supporting actor for...
Elina Psykou’s drama Son Of Sofia was the big winner at the Iris Hellenic Film Academy (Helfiac) Awards on Monday evening (April 23), winning five prizes from 13 nominations, including best film and director.
The Last Note from veteran director Pandelis Voulgaris and Dora Masklavanou’s Polyxeni won four awards each.
Son Of Sofia, which won the best international narrative feature award at Tribeca 2017 and played at Sarajevo, Jeonju, Moscow, Stockholm, Cottbus, Gijon, Kolkata and Carthage festivals, was also awarded best screenplay for Psykou, best supporting actor for...
- 4/24/2018
- by Alexis Grivas
- ScreenDaily
Year: 2010
Directors: Yorgos Noussias
Writers: Claudio Bolivar, Christos Houliaras
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 7 out of 10
Set just minutes after the ending of the first installment, ‘To Kako: Evil’; To Kako - Evil in the Time of Heroes is a Greek zombie movie directed by Yorgos Noussias, and it’s completely insane. It begins with a group of warriors in ancient Greece, sitting around a camp fire telling jokes (specifically Mrs. Wallace’s ‘Ketchup’ joke from Pulp Fiction – first of about a dozen Tarantino references) before being attacked by bloody zombies. Spin forward two thousand years and we’re in modern Athens and the same thing is going on. Our heroes from the first film are still fleeing the zombie hordes and seeking shelter at the cook’s house, along with a rag tag bunch of survivors including someone we had been led to believe had died in the first film.
Directors: Yorgos Noussias
Writers: Claudio Bolivar, Christos Houliaras
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 7 out of 10
Set just minutes after the ending of the first installment, ‘To Kako: Evil’; To Kako - Evil in the Time of Heroes is a Greek zombie movie directed by Yorgos Noussias, and it’s completely insane. It begins with a group of warriors in ancient Greece, sitting around a camp fire telling jokes (specifically Mrs. Wallace’s ‘Ketchup’ joke from Pulp Fiction – first of about a dozen Tarantino references) before being attacked by bloody zombies. Spin forward two thousand years and we’re in modern Athens and the same thing is going on. Our heroes from the first film are still fleeing the zombie hordes and seeking shelter at the cook’s house, along with a rag tag bunch of survivors including someone we had been led to believe had died in the first film.
- 11/5/2010
- QuietEarth.us
So, Greek zombie flick Evil In The Time Of Heroes. Where to start? It's ridiculous, frequently abandons any pretence of making logical sense, sticks two fingers up at audience expectations and includes Billy Zane, for no apparent reason. It's also one of the most purely entertaining genre films in years. That's a rather more subjective judgement than usual, given Heroes comes with some nasty flaws, but it's so consistently, hysterically audacious and stupidly excessive it's very difficult not to love it regardless.
Confusing, perhaps, but let's shorten it to Heroes as technically this is the sequel to the earlier Evil - no subtitle, little seen outside of Greece. (Though it's really not necessary to have seen the first to appreciate the second.) So to be fair to Heroes, it makes no bones about being a work of absolute fantasy where plot is practically superfluous, and once it's got the opening...
Confusing, perhaps, but let's shorten it to Heroes as technically this is the sequel to the earlier Evil - no subtitle, little seen outside of Greece. (Though it's really not necessary to have seen the first to appreciate the second.) So to be fair to Heroes, it makes no bones about being a work of absolute fantasy where plot is practically superfluous, and once it's got the opening...
- 11/3/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Year: 2009
Directors: Yorgos Noussias
Writers: Yorgos Noussias & Claudio Bolivar & Christos Houliaras & Petros Nousias
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Joseph Proimakis
Rating: 6 out of 10
[Editor's note: Special thanks to Joseph Proimakis of Movies for the Masses for the following review]
Starting off with an impressive opening sequence, Evil in the Time of Heroes will catch Greek speakers off guard by employing Ancient Greek dialogue, but then again, the film’s greatest catch, is the premise that the Evil that spread over modern day Athens three days ago (or 5 years ago, in the viewers’ timeline, when the original film wowed local audiences and critics alike) had its roots in ancient times and made its first appearance 2,800 years ago.
Hopes of well-tanned hunks prancing around in sandals, capes and underwear chopping undead heads off of undead bodies, are quickly put to rest, though, as the ancient-time version of the story proves to be an under-used subplot, that only comes to surface in time to remind you that there’s a better story there,...
Directors: Yorgos Noussias
Writers: Yorgos Noussias & Claudio Bolivar & Christos Houliaras & Petros Nousias
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Joseph Proimakis
Rating: 6 out of 10
[Editor's note: Special thanks to Joseph Proimakis of Movies for the Masses for the following review]
Starting off with an impressive opening sequence, Evil in the Time of Heroes will catch Greek speakers off guard by employing Ancient Greek dialogue, but then again, the film’s greatest catch, is the premise that the Evil that spread over modern day Athens three days ago (or 5 years ago, in the viewers’ timeline, when the original film wowed local audiences and critics alike) had its roots in ancient times and made its first appearance 2,800 years ago.
Hopes of well-tanned hunks prancing around in sandals, capes and underwear chopping undead heads off of undead bodies, are quickly put to rest, though, as the ancient-time version of the story proves to be an under-used subplot, that only comes to surface in time to remind you that there’s a better story there,...
- 9/30/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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