Taken at the 50th Thessaloniki Film Festival on the opening night. Great party.
Showing posts with label Thessaloniki film festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thessaloniki film festival. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Werner Herzog - Wild Blue Yonder
German director, Werner Herzog at the 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Werner Herzog at the 50th Thessaloniki Film Festival
Veteren German film maker, Werner Herzog was in Greece today to accept a Golden Alexander award at the 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Herzog, director of 53 movies and documentaries such as Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre, The Wrath of God and Wild Blue Yonder will also be holding a masterclass tomorrow as part of the Greece's most prestigious film event.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Urban Screen project at the 50th Thessaloniki Film Festival
Urban Screen project at the 50th Thessaloniki Film Festival, originally uploaded by Teacher Dude's BBQ.
The Urban Screen project outside the Olympion cinema in Thessaloniki. Part of the 50th Thessaloniki Film Festival.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Jane Birkin
Although Birkin arrived over an hour late she quickly won over the restive audience when it turned out that her luggage had been lost somewhere in Athens airport and that she was wearing dress given by a festival volunteer who'd literally given her the clothes off their back. The British born actress, most famous for her collaborations with French film maker and song writer, Serge Gainsbourg was attending the 50th Thessaloniki Film Festival to receive a life time achievement award and present her latest film, 36 vues du Pic Saint Loup directed by Jacques Rivette
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Dionysis Fotopoulos
Dionysios Fotopoulos, the award winning set designer was in Thessaloniki last night to open a new exhibition of his work hosted by the city's museum of cinematography. The exhibition which is part of 50th Thessaloniki Film Festival will continue until until December.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Greece's film festival opens with glamour, politics and protests
Amidst boycotts, rows over funding and worries over the future of cinema as a whole the 50th Thessaloniki film festival opened last night bringing a touch of silver screen glamour to the northern port city of Thessaloniki.
However, ongoing disputes of how the Greek government's funds the country's movie maκing industry have meant that most local films have nor been entered for competition this year. The protest by a group calling itself Film Makers in the Mist made up many of the country's leading directors was organised in order to demand more transparency over how money raised through taxation on cinema tickets is spent by the government.
Recently elected Pavlos Geroulanos, minister for culture and tourism however, used his speech in the opening ceremony to launch a thinly veiled attack on the previous government's funding policies which he said discouraged pluralism and had helped create a culture of silence and complicity.
In addition to local concerns this year's festival slogan, "Why Cinema?" reflects deeper worries within the European film industry over what the future holds for movies in an era in which new technologies are sweeping away older certainties.
Despite these concerns Greece's largest movie event started off confidently with Soul Kitchen, the work of leading Turkish director Fatih Akin who was later to be seen manning the decks as he DJed the first night party which only finished towards dawn.
The festival which lasts till 22nd November will feature hundreds of full length features, shorts and documentaries as well as a number of concerts, street performances and master classes by film makers such as the veteran German director, Werner Herzog.
50th Thessaloniki Film Festival - opening night
Managed to get crash the Thessaloniki Film Festival twice last night and had a great time, didn't get home to way past my bedtime. As you can see from the photo the opening day party last night was enjoyed by all.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
50th Thessaloniki Film Festival
The 50th Thessaloniki Film Festival opens tomorrow and click here to see the program in English and here to see it in Greek. My pictures below from previous film festivals.
Friday, November 23, 2007
Museum of photography and cinematography - Thessaloniki
There is a great exhibition by the French photographer, Bernard Plossu at the photography museum here in Thessaloniki.
"The Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and the 48th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, with the support of the French Institute of Thessaloniki, present the first retrospective exhibition of the french master of photography Bernard Plossu from November the 13th until January the 4th 2008 at the T.M.P. - The opening of the exhibition will be on Sunday, November 18th-.Τhe works of this exhibition, the first retrospective ever to be held in Greece, invite us to become fellow travelers on his journeys to Europe, Mexico, Africa, India, California, New Mexico, and Latin America (1963 – 2006). Yet all these travels seem to be a scenery-in-motion for the artist who manages to depict in his works fleeing images and emotions, such as absence. In this manner Βernard Plossu succeeds in creating his own lyrical “immaterial writing”.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
John Malkovich at the Thessaloniki film festival.
I had a couple of hours in between lessons and you'll never believe who I bumped into when I decided to take a few photos at the Thessaloniki Film festival John sends his regards, by the way.
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