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Cambridge, Sep. 12&16: Angelopoulos Screenings at the Harvard Film Archive
The Harvard Film Archive
presents
Two Screenings of the Film
O MEGALEXANDROS
(ALEXANDER THE GREAT)
by Theodoros Angelopoulos
Friday, September 12 at 7:30 p.m. and
Tuesday, September 16 at 8:30 p.m.
Harvard Film Archive
CARPENTER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS
Harvard University,
24 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138.
Tel: (617) 495-8700
O MEGALEXANDROS
Winner of the Golden Lion award for the best film at the 1980 Venice Film
Festival, O MEGALEXANDROS is Angelopoulos' examination of the 'cult of
personality.' Set in Greece a few years after the Paris Commune, it is a
tale of socialism first deformed and then destroyed by an authoritarian
leader. "Through his lens, Angelopoulos looks at things in silence. It is
the weight of this silence and the intensity of the immobile stare of
Angelopoulos's camera which makes O MEGALEXANDROS so powerful that the
viewer cannot break away from the screen. This kind of filmmaking, so
personal and unique in its particularity, tends to return to the roots of
the cinema. This is precisely what creates the impression of freshness and
strength. As for myself, watching this film I deeply felt the pleasure of
cinema in the most absolute meaning of the term." -Akira Kurosawa
Angelopoulos is arguably Greece's most important director ever and is one
of the top five filmmakers alive today. His cinema constantly challenges,
defies and enlightens and given the paucity of screenings of his
masterpieces, this event should not be missed.
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