The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos

ISBN-13: 9780313305641 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 144 str.

Andrew Horton

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Theo Angelopoulos is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive contemporary filmmakers and a highly idiosyncratic film stylist. His work, from the early 1970s to "The Beekeeper," "Landscape in the Mist," "The Suspended Step of the Stalk" and the recent Cannes prize-winner "Ulysses' Gaze," demonstrates a unique sensibility and a preoccupation with form (notably, the long take, space, and time) and with content, particularly Greek politics and history, and notions of the journey, border-crossing, and exile. This new collection of essays surveys his entire cinematic output and presents a discussion of his major films, themes, and concerns.

The contributors argue that Angelopoulos' sustained "oeuvre"