Friday, December 16, 2011

CV VICKY NIKOLETOU


CV VICKY NIKOLETOU
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2439951/


O Jerusalem (2006)


A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

The looser takes them all - Ο χαμένος τα παίρνει όλα / 2002


A lonely Man in his 40’s wanders with a canary named Belafonte, cigarettes, beers and pills to keep him company... He has no future and no present, only a past, a cloudy mind, poor health and a face that cops love to hate. Not to mention his obsession with “the Apocalypse of John”… 
The Man roams the city's streets, amongst the "women of his life". Tough chicks, casual flings, dark nights, filthy bars and strip joints, shady activities, and small hopes...
He works, when he wants or needs to, for "Fatty" a corrupted detective.
He steals, when he wants or needs to, from the usual known-unknown people that cross his path. Then, he meets the 19 year-old Kid... 

The Man finds a companion in the face of the Kid, who is willing to follow his escapades without asking too much…
They roam together now, surrounded by chicks, money, enemies, drugs, cameras, chases, and murders… The nights become dangerous and the days become strange.
Three women: Elsa, Miss Raspberry and Black Beauty join them as they decide to go for "the big money". Although they all have different reasons, the dream they share is to escape... To flee from the bar ELDORADO and move to an exotic island...
But without betraying the innocence of their own decadence, or the last drops of their feelings of affection. 

The adventure seems amusing before it becomes dangerous; and the journey to Heaven or Hell is certain – for those who can stand it…



MAN AT SEA / 2011

After a long separation following the death of their son, Alex and Kate meet again on board the oil-tanker Sea Voyager. That same day, Alex rescues thirty adolescent immigrants adrift in the Mediterranean. No country grants asylum, and the manager of the nearly bankrupt ship owner insists that Alex deal with the situation promptly. But each one of his efforts leads to a dead end. And while some members of the crew grow fond of certain teenagers, including Kate who gives motherhood a second chance, the majority feel that their “guests” have overstayed their welcome. Unable to handle the tension and wrapped up in his depression, Alex makes a series of wrong decisions, until he finally finds the courage to rise above the situation.



Ταξίδι στη Μυτιλήνη - Journey to Mytilene / 2010

Προσθήκη λεζάντας
Veteran filmmaker Lakis Papastathis combines nostalgic fiction with his personal experiences when reacquainting with his birthplace – Mytilene, on the Aegean island of Lesbos. Christos Hatzipanayotis plays Kostas – who is, ostensibly, an on-screen version of Papastathis – a filmmaker who returns from working in Paris to his childhood home after inheriting the family residence. His return sees him amiably reacquainted with relatives and friends; fond reminiscences facilitate a connection between the older, wiser Kostas and the same man as a ten-year-old boy. However, Kostas has to manage a daunting confrontation with a dark time in his family’s history, along with his relationship with Eleni – a young woman working at a nursing home on the island.



Director: Lakis Papastathis



CANTEEN - KANTINA / 2009


Η καντίνα Νίκος χτυπάει την κρίση και ταίζει όλους τους πεινασμένους περαστικούς οδηγούς!
Ο πιο καθαρός αλλά και υψηλής ποιότητας που θα βρείτε απο οπουδήποτε!!!
Ειλικρινά αξίζει να τον επισκεφτείτε και να δοκιμάσετε τις γεύσεις του και με δώρο την σαλάτα...
Καλαμπουρτζής ο Νίκος και με μεγάλη χαρά να σας εξυπηρετήσει αλλά πάνω από όλα να σας ΧΟΡΤΑΣΕΙ!!!
Εγώ τον δοκίμασα και όταν θα ξαναβρεθώ στην Δράμα,θα είναι προτεραιότητα μου να ξαναδοκιμάσω τις πλούσιες μερίδες και γεύσεις του....

SMALL REVOLTS - ΜΙΚΡΕΣ ΕΞΕΓΕΡΣΕΙΣ / 2009

A small town in northern Greece: the film begins with Anna’s monolog in a theater rehearsal in a coffee shop. Manos, obsessed with Panselinos (a 13th century Byzantine painter), himself hidden inside a trivial life, watches her. It is the turning point for both of them. Anna, married to an abusive man, is mesmerized by Manos’ paintings and his kindness. They develop a powerful passion. Anna is pregnant; against all odds, she decides to keep the baby and leave her husband. After some time, Manos and Simeon, Manos’ friend who used to be a monk, travel to Anna’s town. Anna is there with her baby. The full moon promises its own light – nothing more, nothing less.


O διαχειριστής - THE BUILDING MANAGER / 2009

A gently ironic portrait of a midlife crisis. Pavlos takes over the job of building manager just as a sewage pipe bursts. Will Pavlos succeed in fixing the broken sewage pipe before he can fix his own wrecked life? Director Hoursoglou succeeds in creating a faithful, entertaining, and even touching portrait of "ordinary" interpersonal relations. Written by Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 

Director: Periklis Hoursoglou

Friday, December 9, 2011

Μέγας Αλέξανδρος ο Μακεδών / Alexandre Le Grand, Macedonien / 2011




Alexandre le Grand a un statut tout à fait unique au regard de l’histoire.
Il est un héros, pour les Grecs et les Romains, un prophète pour les Arabes, un mythe pour les occidentaux. Il a, à lui seul, hellénisé le monde antique jusqu’aux confins de l’Inde en poursuivant sans relâche son ennemi juré Darius, le grand roi des Perses.
Mais derrière le fracas perdu de ses grandes batailles que reste-t-il d’Alexandre ?
Une multitude de représentations du héros, à travers les âges, les styles, les pays. Une figure légendaire inspirant tant et tant jusqu’aux artistes d’aujourd’hui.
Pourtant, du « réel » d’Alexandre, de ce qui l’a entouré, de ce qu’il a vécu, que savons-nous vraiment ?
La plus grande partie des documents ont disparu. Quantité de discours prêtés à Alexandre sont des faux ou des reconstitutions fantaisistes ou intéressées. Les seuls documents véritables qui nous parlent de lui et de son temps ont tout d’abord été retrouvés inscrits dans la pierre dans les cités grecques d’Europe et d’Asie.
Une inscription, notamment, rappelle les conditions imposées aux peuples et aux cités grecs qui adhérèrent à la Ligue de Corinthe en -338 après la victoire de Chéronée par Philippe II, le père d’Alexandre, qui en fût le premier général en chef.
C’est à partir de cette ligue qu’Alexandre put lever son armée et partir pour les confins du monde.
Un royaume qui, au nord de la Grèce, suscite haine et fascination de la part de toutes les cités grecques.
Point de départ et épicentre du film : La Macédoine. Ce royaume qui a vu naître Alexandre. Le royaume de son père, Philippe qui, en –338, vient de faire plier devant lui les cités d’Athènes et de Thèbes.
Or que savons-nous de ce royaume, de son histoire, de sa supériorité ?

Great Alexander Louvre Museum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEgXNdrQCSo&feature=related




ALEXANDER THE GREAT (Pictures from the documentary's production)

DIRECTOR: Bernard George 
PRODUCTION: Le musée du Louvre, Arte, Les Films du Tambour de Soie, Minimal Films, ERT

WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY ON LINE:
https://vimeo.com/34132970


Thursday, December 8, 2011

Un bruit qui rend fou / 1995

The complexly interwoven lives of the residents of an isolated Greek island form the basis of this psycho-sexual drama from iconoclastic film-maker Alain Robbe-Grillet. Living on the island are a few native Greeks, several Chinese, who spend their days playing mah-jongg, Nordmann, a boozy screenwriter, and seductive Sarah la-Blonde, the madam at the Blue Villa, the town whorehouse, in which Sarah hides Santa, alias Lotus Blossom. Sarah is teaching Santa to sing an aria from Wagner. One day, Frank, who could be a ghost, arrives on the island. At first he never speaks and appears to be looking for something or someone. It is later learned that he was involved in the supposed death of Santa, who just might be Nordmann's daughter. It is up to the local police chief, Thieu, to figure out what parts of the story are true and what parts are fiction.



Alain Robbe - Grillet pour UN BRUIT QUI RENT FOU

Directors: Dimitri de Clercq, Alain Robbe-Grillet

Writers: Dimitri de Clercq (adaptation), Alain Robbe-Grillet (dialogue)

IMDB:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114774/

L'écrivain public / 1993

Pour retrouver les ardeurs de la belle Fanny, qui fut la femme de sa vie, Jacques demande a un ecrivain public de composer des lettres d'amour enflamees pour une belle inconnue que, pretend-il, il vient de rencontrer. No genres have been added yet.

Αθηναιοι - The Athenians / 1990

This is a series of intersecting stories. A petty crook and former lover of a lazy ingénue steals the box-office receipts from the Odeon of Herodus Atticus, on the day an important football game is also taking place. There is also the story of the half-mad mother of the ingénue who refuses to put shoes on because she believes that shoes lead people astray. An eccentric grave-digger produces a two-seater coffin for couple-victims of car accidents. The film also tells the story of one of the Odeon's cleaning women and of a watermelon that goes all around the city, pursued by a tired theater technician and his sister, who is a tour guide. The impresario conducts an inquiry after the theft, but the thief and his two associates, the ingénue and the technician, use what was stolen to set up a small theatre. Small everyday stories and comic incidents combine to create a portrait of modern-day Athens.


Λαβύρινθος - Labyrinth / 1988 (short animation)

Η ταινία στηρίζεται σε μια ιδέα του Ν. Γιαννόπουλου: Κάποιος αποφυλακίζεται. Καθώς περιπλανάται, καταλαβαίνει ότι βρίσκεται σε ένα λαβύρινθο. Ο λαβύρινθος αυτός είναι...

Director: Giorgos Baganas

Κλειστό Κύκλωμα - Closed Circuit / 1989

This is the story of divorced couple, of two young people who have a seven -year old daughter.
The little girl lives with her mother, and her father lives in the same neighbor­hood, so that she can visit him often. The father comes up with the idea to ins­tall a closed TV- circuit between the two homes, so that his daughter can contact him any time of the day and this feel less the separation of her parents. The mother permits the installation of the circuit...
However, none of the two parents sus­pect that this new means of communica­tion will ruin their clear cut relationship, since the circuit gives them the possibility to interfere in one another's privet live

Director's commentary
This story rhymes. like a poem, like the Ivrics of a song: Ever repeating events in a game of reflections and «mirages» between facing mirrors, a game where everything is the same and different at the same time.
The heroes struggle in the «whirlpool» of a realitv where charm is svnonvmous to the uncertainty. the mistakes, the con­tradictions and the retrogressions that characterize their begaviour. Nevertheless they make no effort to escape.
Charmed by this dangerous communica­tion game, thev try to live with one another, relying solely on their insticts. st) thev improv ise.
Fort theY know that «katharsis» will not come, unless they master the rules ol the game.




Το Βλέμμα του Δαίδαλου - Dedalo's look / TV 1985

The dominant subject of this telefilm titled "Dedalos' look" is time.
Through an ordinary relationship between a young film-director and a journalist, who work together on a documen­tary on the great author Nikos Kazantzakis, arises the ques­tion of our link with the past and whether it exits.
We all feel the need to make history, but we eventualy realise that we cannot bring back or recreate the past through facts and people only.
There are other elements as well (such as the wishes, the ambitions, the secret thoughts, the different attitudes towards behaviors and statements) which, though absolute­ly necessary for the objective evaluation of the past, are often omitted, being forgotten as time goes by.
When the hero of the film reaches this conclusion, he leaves the documentary on Kazantzakis unfinished seeing it like a puzzle, some pieces of which are missing, while even those existing are not necessarily put in the right place.
His girlfriend, the journalist, firmly disagrees with this at­titude, considering it to be a luxury in our times' conven­tionalism
This disagreement puts an end to the young couple's relationship that was built on their common effort in creating the documentary.
The creators of this film, while never aiming at convincing the spectator, try to make as clearly as possible their point on an existential problem, naturally seen through their own angle.



Big Blue - Le grand bleu / 1988

Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques' father, who was a diver too, died in the Mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and Jacques lost contact. After several years, Enzo and Jacques had grown up, Johanna, a young clerk in a security office, has to go to Peru. There she meets Jacques who works for a group of scientists. He dives for some minutes into ice-cold water and the scientists monitor his physical state that is more like a dolphin's than a human's. Johanna can not believe what she sees and gets very interested in Jacques but she's unable to get acquainted with him. Some weeks later, back in her office, she notices a championship for divers that is supposed to take place in Taormina, Italy. In order to see Jacques again she makes up a story so the firm sends her to Italy for business purposes. In Taormina there is also Enzo, the reigning diving world champion. He knows that only Jacques can challenge and probably beat him. This time Johanna and Jacques get closer, but Jacques, being more a dolphin than a man, can not really commit and his rivalry with Enzo pushes both men into dangerous territory...



Director: Luc Besson


Writers: Luc Besson (story), Luc Besson (screenplay)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095250/

Liban, le pays du miel et de l'encens / 1988


Fournier, a doctor, arrives in Beirut, having previously practised in Paris. He is met by Morin, another doctor who is disillusioned with the situation in Beirut and wishes to return to Paris.
Médecins des hommes (TV series 1988)

Director: Maroun Bagdadi


Writers: Maroun Bagdadi, Didier Decoin

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0655664/


Olympus Force: The Key (1988)


A group of terrorists hijack a bus in modern Greece. The gods intervene...

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Mangeclous (1988)


French/Israeli filmmaker Moshe Mizrahi wrote and directed this adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen. Set in 1938, it tells the farcical story of a band of five French speaking Greek Jews who seek to have their status as self-appointed ambassadors of a Palestinian Zionist state recognized by the League of Nations in Geneva. The five are played by veteran French comic actors Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jacques Villeret, Jacques Dufilho and Jean-Luc Bideau. The film follows their rambling odyssey from their native Greek island to Marseilles to Geneva, where they involve a Polish Jewish immigrant (played by actor/singer Charles Aznavour in their scheme.



Director: Moshé Mizrahi

Ο Παράδεισος ανοίγει με αντικλείδι - Flying Ants / 1987


In Athens during the 1950s, two children meet an acrobat (Ian Dury) and his assistant, who make their living doing dangerous stunts. When the assistant is arrested, the children decide to help the acrobat rescue her. The police chase them, but they manage to escape thanks to the acrobat’s balloon. 

Director: Vasilis Boudouris

Η Φωτογραφία - La Photo / 1987


Un film qui mêle les genres : sur fond politique (le régime militaire des colonels dans la Grèce de 1971, et la difficulté d'intégration des immigrés à Paris), c'est une comédie de mœurs en même temps qu'un suspense tragique et une allégorie poétique.
L'argument en est simple : Ilyas, qui a quitté la Grèce qui est alors sous le régime des Colonels, fait tomber la photo d'une chanteuse et dit à son cousin que c'est sa sœur. Gérassimos tombe amoureux de la photo, et Ilyas pousse jusqu'au bout ce mensonge avec beaucoup de mauvaise conscience, car il s'est mis à aimer passionnément son cousin.
Une amitié-passion entre le jeune Ilyas et son cousin « parisien » Gérassimos, qui se développe sur fond de trahison, et ne peut qu'aboutir au drame :  
Amitié-passion entre deux hommes, sorte d'homosexualité sans sexe, retardement infini de l'orgasme pris de vitesse par le mécanisme tragique, "La Photo" va plus loin que la simple idée de sexe suggérée par le mot homosexualité, peut-être justement parce que le film ne montre pas de sexe.
Tuer par amour
L'amitié que porte Ilyas pour Gérassimos contient en elle le germe de la trahison. Le jeune trahit moins par volonté délibérée de trahison qu'en raison de l'intervention du destin, donc d'un élément qui lui échappe. Il y a cette photo qui occasionne un petit mensonge, sur lequel il lui est désormais impossible de revenir. Il est pris alors entre l'amour réel qu'il porte à cet homme et l'impossibilité de lui révéler sa trahison. Quant au personnage féminin du trio de "La Photo", il est mythique, il représente une sorte d'idéal de la féminité pour lequel Gérassimos s'est enflammé. Et c'est pour que Gérassimos ne soit pas déçu par la réalité, qu'Ilyas, par amour, provoquera sa mort.




L'arbre sous la mer (1985)

Mathieu, un jeune géologue, d'esprit très cartésien, se rend sur une petite île grecque pour y étudier les arbres pétrifiés. Cette île n'est habitée que par un pêcheur et sa fille, étrange personnage qui passe sa vie dans la mer et prétend y rencontrer un être avec lequel elle se sent en parfaite harmonie : un dauphin. Peu à peu, sous l'effet de la magie de l'île, Mathieu abandonne son assurance et ses certitudes. Lentement, cette envoûtante fille de l'eau va l'attirer dans son monde.

 

Director: Philippe Muyl

Το Στίγμα - The Stigma 1982


A young couple (Antonis Kafetzopoulos and Olia Lazaridou) have a baby affected with the Down Syndrome. In order to avoid the difficulties entailed in bringing a child that will never live a normal life, they decided to put an end to its life. That is illegal and the doctors don't take such a renponsibilty. Eventually, the couple with the aid of the girl's mother (Ntina Konsta) will feed the baby with water instead of milk, untill it dies. Their deed will not be noticed but their relationship will never be the same. Finally they will be divorced.


Director: Pavlos Tasios

Writer: Pavlos Tasios

IMDB:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267954/

WATCH ON LINE AT YOUTUBE:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4cY3JJFies


Επικινδυνο Παιχνιδι - Epikindyno paihnidi / 1982


Ένας νεαρός άντρας, ο Κώστας ενώ κάνει διακοπές στη Μυτιλήνη, γνωρίζει την Άννα, μια όμορφη γερμανίδα, σύζυγος ενός πλούσιου έλληνα επιχειρηματία. Ένα βράδυ η Άννα θα περάσει τη νύχτα στο ξενοδοχείο του Κώστα, κι ενώ ο Κώστας κοιμάται, πέρνει το κλειδί του και φεύγει. Την άλλη μέρα τη βρίσκουν νεκρή, ενώ σύντομα θα συλλάβουν τον Κώστα.



The Search for Alexander the Great 1981

1981 miniseries, hosted by James Mason. Starring Nicholas Clay as Alexander the Great and Ian Charleson as Hephaistion.
There are four episodes and, while the historical details of the background are given by James Mason as narrator, the story of Alexandros is told by the people who loved him and were loved by him (Olympias, Ptolemy, Hephaestion, Philip, Cleitus, Aristotle, Bagoas) and by the defeated king Darius: they are gathered together  - dead and alive - for a banquet and they discuss Alexandros' life from their different points of view. The show is very enjoyable and the historical details are always correct. Nicolas Clay (who was a wonderful Lancelot in "Excalibur") is a great Alexandros and he looks very much like Richard Burton who, in my opinion, despite that awful movie, was perfect as Alexandros. Ian Charleson is a great actor (I remember him as Fortinbras in "Hamlet" with Derek Jacobi) but his Hephaestion doesn't persuade me enough, can't explain why, it's jus a feeling, even if the relationship with Alexandros is correctly portrayed, no modern vision of it. Jane Lapotaire (Mary Tudor in "Lady Jane") is a passionate and strong Olympias, Julian Glover a powerful Philip and Gabriel Byrne is very wise as Ptolemy.

DIRECTOR:PETER SYKES

SCRIPWRITER: GEORGE LEFFERTS, SIMON RAVEN 

ΙΣΤΟΡΙΕΣ ΜΙΑΣ ΚΕΡΗΘΡΑΣ - STORIES OF A HONEYCOMB / 1981

This film presents the daily routine, the alienation and conventionality of a group of actors and other people in the film industry.
  

TO ΕΡΓΟΣΤΑΣΙΟ - THE FACTORY / 1981

Giorgos Papyros, a tanner in the countryside, is trying really hard to rescue his small industry, in a rather hard time for small businesses. Giorgos is hoping to get a bank loan, but his request is rejected. So, he turns to a successful emigrant, Apostolis, who wants to marry his daughter, Valentini, who dreams of being an actress. However, this time, it’s his daughter who turns him down, not wanting to get married to someone she doesn’t love- especially after being raped. The poor businessman has nothing but debts, and he has no choice but to become, just like his son, a worker at the nearby factory, whose welfare is also uncertain. 

Director: Tasos Psarras

ΜΠΕΤΤΥ - BETTY / 1979 (short)


Η ταινία κρύβεται πίσω από ένα μακιγιαρισμένο πρόσωπο που μιμείται και συντηρεί τη μυθολογία της βαμπ αφηγείται το 24ωρο ενός τραβεστί, της Μπέττυ. Ο θεατής βλέπει πόση οδύνη και πόση μοναξιά μπορεί να... 

ΠΑΡΑΣΤΑΣΗ ΓΙΑ ΕΝΑ ΡΟΛΟ - PERFORMANCE FOR A ROLE / 1978


On the occasion of a theatrical performance, the tortuous history of modern Greece, from the Asia Minor Disaster to the invasion in Cyprus, is presented. More specifically, the film examines the ways in which, each time, the so-called foreign protectors of Greece have benefited by destruction and hardship, in Greece as well as in the wider area of the Mediterranean and the Balkans.


Director: Dionysis Grigoratos


ΧΡΥΣΟΜΑΛΛΟΥΣΑ - ΤΗΕ WOMAN WITH GOLDEN HAIR / 1978


A pretty young woman (Vera Krouska), who is the widow of an emigrant to Germany, moves
to Zakynthos with her daughter. She has an affair with the progressive teacher
of a village and helps him with the revival of a folk drama. Finally, after
innumerable difficulties, the prejudice and intolerance of the locals force her
to leave the island, while the woman’s violent and reactionary father-in-law
ends up killing the teacher.

Writers: Stratis Karras (screenplay), Adonis Lykouresis

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123110/

DOWNLOAD THE FILM:

http://rapidshare.com/files/333373865/KROYSKA_-_H_XRYSOMALLOYSA.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/333391340/KROYSKA_-_H_XRYSOMALLOYSA.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/333531058/KROYSKA_-_H_XRYSOMALLOYSA.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/333578167/KROYSKA_-_H_XRYSOMALLOYSA.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/333592278/KROYSKA_-_H_XRYSOMALLOYSA.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/333605758/KROYSKA_-_H_XRYSOMALLOYSA.part6.rar

Sunday, December 4, 2011

To tango ton Hristougennon (Το ταγκό των Χριστουγέννων ) 2011


Ένα από τα πιο αναγνωρισμένα βιβλία του Γιάννη Ξανθούλη έρχεται στη μεγάλη οθόνη, για να μας μαγέψει τα Χριστούγεννα του 2011.
Δεκαετία του 1970... είναι Χριστούγεννα και στο στρατόπεδο Βάτη, στον Έβρο, προετοιμάζονται για την καθιερωμένη χριστουγεννιάτικη γιορτή.
Οι σκέψεις, όμως, του υπολοχαγού Στέφανου Καραμανίδη είναι κάπου αλλού. Άνθρωπος κλειστός, χωρίς χαμόγελο, αγρίμι, έχει μόνο μια επιθυμία: να ζητήσει σε χορό τον κρυφό του έρωτα, την Ζωή, σύζυγο του Συνταγματάρχη Μανώλη Λόγγου.
Δεν ξέρει, όμως, να χορεύει. Θα ζητήσει την βοήθεια ενός φαντάρου, του Λάζαρου Λαζάρου, ενός συνεσταλμένου νεαρού, από τους λίγους που ξεχώριζαν στο στρατόπεδο για την μόρφωση και καλλιέργεια τους.
Η γνωριμία τους, σύντομη αλλά καταλυτική, θα είναι η αφορμή για μια σειρά γεγονότων που θα κορυφωθούν με ένα Τανγκό... Το Τανγκό των Χριστουγέννων... σε μια μέρα που θα αλλάξει τις ζωές των τριών ηρώων μια για πάντα.

 

Director: Nikos Koutelidakis