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THE VOURDALAK: Trailer And Poster For Adaptation of 18th Century Vampire Tale
When the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, is attacked and abandoned in the remote countryside, he finds refuge at an eerie, isolated manor. The resident family, reluctant to take him in, exhibits strange behavior as...
Interview: FLUX GOURMET Director Peter Strickland Talks Noise-Bands, Gastrointestinal Distress, Ego, Witchcraft, Hats
“I do wonder sometimes if you are perpetuating an archetype of epicurean toxicity with all this culinary hysteria.” That arch line of dialogue can, and perhaps should, act as a litmus test on where you might, or might not, find...
Now on DVD: Yorgos Lanthimos' ALPS From Kino Lorber
This December the 4th sees the DVD release of Greek director, Yorgos Lanthimos' Alps, the highly anticipated follow up to his Academy Award nominated film, Dogtooth.The film ran the festival circuit for a long time before finally being given a...
Yorgos Lanthimos Is Not The Leader of the Greek New Wave: An Interview With The Director Of ALPS and DOGTOOTH
In 2009, Yorgos Lanthimos burst onto the international film scene with his cinematic guide to good parenting, Dogtooth. It won the Un Certain Regard award at Cannes, was nominated for an Oscar, and there was much rejoicing (yay!). The highly...
Review: ALPS Fuses High and Low Culture
[After a run on the festival circuit, ALPS opens for a theatrical run in New York and Florida on Friday, July 13, so we're republishing our review from the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. Check the "Related Links" section for...
ScreenAnarchy's ATTENBERG Review Roundup
Giorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari, the creative team behind Dogtooth, switched roles for their project, and the result is Attenberg, produced by Lanthimos and directed by Tsangari, and poised to begin a limited theatrical engagement in the U.S. tomorrow....
New Theatrical Teaser For Yorgos Lanthimos' ALPS
[I take the following opening paragraph back. It has just been announced that Kino Lorber will be distributing the film in the USA.]There's something strange with the state of US film distribution when a director - in this case Greece's...
TIFF 2011: ALPS Review
"There are many types of lighting receptacles, that come in both professional and consumer grades.""Cold is a word that winter swimmers do not know." This is the icy-precise line-reading one comes to expect from writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos. Those who got an...
Watch A One-Sided Game Of Tennis In Clip From Yorgos Lanthimos' ALPS
The new film from the director of the Oscar-nominated Dogtooth is about to roll out in Venice and Toronto and while existing fans of Yorgos Lanthimos may have an idea of what they're getting in to a new clip has...
The Teaser For Lanthimos' ALPS Declares You Unready For Pop
Should we be surprised that a very odd director has released a very odd teaser for his latest film? I think not.Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos will be hitting both Venice and Toronto with his follow up effort Alps and the...
Four Shots From Yorgos Lanthimos' ALPS
When Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos broke through on to the international film scene with 2009's Dogtooth I doubt even the most fervent early admirers could have predicted the impact the film would have. A controversial and edgy favorite on the...
SFF 2011 - ATTENBERG Review
The Sydney Film Festival brings the best new films from around the world right to the audiences of Sydney. It runs from 8-19th of June and is one of Sydney's biggest annual events.Set in a Greek factory town by the...
IFFR 2011: ATTENBERG review
Last year the International Film Festival Rotterdam showed the currently Oscar-nominated "Dogtooth" by Greek director Giorgos Lanthimos, with Athina Rachel Tsangari listed as associate producer. This year the IFFR shows another collaboration of these two although this time the roles...
New Clip From Rachel Tsangari's ATTENBERG
With Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg about to screen at the festival in Thessaloniki and rumblings of another major festival announcement due any time now, the lads over at Movies For The Masses have just debuted a new clip from the film....
The Most Awkward Sex Of The Year Belongs To Athina Rachel Tsangari's ATTENBERG
When it comes to very odd cult dramas revolving around uncomfortable sexual dynamics it would appear that Greece has cornered the market. Last year it was Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth turning heads on the festival circuit and now Athina Rachel Tsangari...
