Screen Auteur and Palme d’Or Winner Theo Angelopoulos Remembered in Retrospective at Hammer Museum in Los Angeles
variety.comPeter Caranicas Deputy Editor The films of legendary Greek writer-director Theo Angelopoulos – whose “Eternity and a Day” won the Palme d’Or in Cannes in 1998 – are being screened at a two-month tribute in the Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater near the UCLA campus in Westwood.
The career retrospective opened on October 14 and will continue through December 18. Called Landscapes of Time: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos, the tribute includes all the director’s feature films and a selection of shorts.
Angelopoulos was a major force in the Greek film industry from the mid-1970s until his death in 2012. Drawing on his own experiences with the tumultuous events taking place in Greece, his films often center on characters whose personal journeys become intertwined with the tides of history.
While many moviegoers have found Angelopoulos’ films uncompromising and challenging, they are ultimately rewarded by his work’s unique storytelling, epic scale and stunning imagery – all factors that sustained the director’s wins at multiple top-tier film festivals over the years, including Berlin, Thessaloniki and Venice, as well as Cannes.
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