Greece’s most famous filmmaker, and a leading light in world cinema until his death in a traffic accident in 2012, Theo Angelopoulos is known for lengthy, aesthetically beautiful films, such as ...

In a recent article published in Sight & Sound just days after the death of Theo Angelopoulos, the director is quoted: “The only place I really feel at home is in a car next to a driver. I don’t drive ...

His films were exceptionally long, often running to three or four hours. They consisted typically of a relatively small number of extended takes, lasting up to 10 minutes without a cut. The Travelling ...

Italian heartthrob Toni Servillo (“Gomorrah,” “Il Divo”) announced at the Turin Film Festival this week that he will be starring in the new film from Palme d’Or winning Greek filmmaker Theo ...

ATHENS, Greece — He was known for his slow and dream-like directing style and had enough stamina at 76 to be working on his latest movie. But award-winning Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos was killed ...

Critic David Thomson listed Theo Angelopoulos among a handful of truly great living filmmakers. His movies were epic in length and addressed epic periods in Greek history and mythology. They were ...

More than 1,000 people including leading lights in politics and entertainment have attended the funeral of Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos, who was killed in a road accident last week. The ...

The Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos, 76, died on Tuesday of injuries sustained after he was hit crossing a road by a motorcycle. At the time of the accident he had been filming in Piraeus, the ...

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The Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos, who has died aged 76 in a road accident, was an epic poet of the cinema, creating allegories of 20th-century Greek history and politics. He redefined the ...