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The European Film Academy is changing the date of its annual award ceremony, the European Film Awards, so that it will be positioned within the awards season at the start of the year.

After the 37th edition in December 2024, the 38th edition will take place mid-January 2026 and will celebrate the best European films from the previous year. The date change is a next step in the repositioning and rebranding process of the event and the work of the European Film Academy.

With the European Film Awards moving a month later to the beginning of the calendar year, European nominees and winners will be featured much more visibly within the awards season, culminating with the Oscars.

As the nominations for the European Film Awards will continue to be announced by mid-November each year, the date change will create a larger window for nominated films to be promoted. Academy members eligible to...

Mikis Theodorakis, the beloved Greek composer whose rousing music and life of political defiance won acclaim abroad and inspired millions at home, died Thursday. He was 96.

His death at his home in central Athens was announced on state television and followed multiple hospitalizations in recent years, mostly for heart treatment.

Theodorakis’ prolific career that started at age 17 produced a hugely varied body of work that ranged from somber symphonies and an anthem for the Palestinian Liberation Organization to popular television and the film scores for Serpico and Zorba the Greek.

But the towering man with trademark worker suits, hoarse voice ...

Mikis Theodorakis, the beloved Greek composer whose rousing music and life of political defiance won acclaim abroad and inspired millions at home, died Thursday. He was 96.

His death at his home in central Athens was announced on state television and followed multiple hospitalizations in recent years, mostly for heart treatment.

Theodorakis’ prolific career that started at age 17 produced a hugely varied body of work that ranged from somber symphonies and an anthem for the Palestinian Liberation Organization to popular television and the film scores for Serpico and Zorba the Greek.

But the towering man with trademark worker suits, hoarse voice ...

Mikis Theodorakis, the Greek composer of acclaimed scores for such films as Zorba the Greek, Z and Serpico, died today at his home in Athens of cardiac arrest. He was 96.

His death was announced on his website. A longtime and outspoken advocate for leftist causes whose opposition to the 1967–1974 Greek junta landed him in prison and then exile in Paris during the late 1960s and early ’70s, Theodorakis saw his considerable body of musical work both banned and celebrated in his home country.

In the wake of his death today, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis declared three days of national mourning. Theodorakis’ body will lie in state, according to a statement read on Greek state television today.

Though his musical compositions spanned the worlds of ballet, opera, symphonies and the theater, Theodorakis might best be remembered for 1964’s Zorba the Greek, directed by Michael Cacoyiannis and starring Anthony Quinn. In particular,...

Cinematographer who won an Oscar for the 1964 film classic Zorba the Greek

The title of the cinematographer Walter Lassally’s 1987 autobiography, Itinerant Cameraman, could not have been more apt. Lassally, who has died aged 90, was born in Germany (he had a German father and a Polish mother), lived and worked in the UK, and made films in, among many other countries, Czechoslovakia and Greece.

It was the last of these, where he shot Zorba the Greek (1964), which won him best black-and-white cinematography Oscar, that meant the most to him. Known locally as “Walter the Greek”, Lassally lived for many years outside the city of Chania, on the island of Crete, near the beach that had served as location for the movie’s celebrated final scene, with Anthony Quinn and Alan Bates dancing to the music of Mikis Theodorakis. He shot six films with its Greek director Michael Cacoyannis, but he...

Or, “Never on Sunday with Your Stepson.” Director Jules Dassin’s monument to his beloved Melina Mercouri transposes a Greek tragedy to a modern setting. The pampered wife of a shipping magnate is like a queen of old — she can fling a priceless gem into the Thames on just a whim, and she goes in whatever direction her heart takes her. When her attractive stepson Anthony Perkins enters the picture, there will be Hell to Pay.

Phaedra

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Olive Films

1962 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 116 min. / Street Date March 21, 2017 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.95

Starring: Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone, Elisabeth Ercy.

Cinematography: Jacquest Natteau

Film Editor: Roger Dwyre

Original Music: Mikis Theodorakis

Written by Jules Dassin, Margarita Lymberaki from the play Hippolytus by Euripides

Produced and Directed by Jules Dassin

Anyone into amour fou, the romantic notion of a love without limits, beyond the harsh constraints of reality?...

Written and directed by a Greek Cypriot, this flat, feelgood family story transposes the cliches of Zorba the Greek to the present day. The dull Alan Bates character becomes Harry, an anglicised Greek Cypriot multi-millionaire (Stephen Dillane) bankrupted by the current economic crisis; Anthony Quinn's Zorba becomes Spiros, his ebullient older brother and embodiment of the life-force (Georges Corraface). The widowed Harry and his three kids are rescued when they reopen the family fish-and-chips bar, make friends with the Turkish family running a kebab shop across the street, discover their eastern Mediterranean roots, turn their backs on capitalism and start dancing to the strains of a Mikis Theodorakis song in a suburban London street.

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Above: Ulrich Seidl's Paradise: Love.

The lineup for the 39th Telluride Film Festival has been announced, with the guest programming slot this year being given to Geoff Dyer. His program, along with the Pordenone, Medallion, and Spotlight sections, contain one of the best aspects of the Telluride festival: side-by-side programming of new films with old. Tucked away at the bottom is the program we're most excited about: short films by neglected Hollywood director Jean Negulesco.

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The Act Of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark)

Amour (Michael Haneke, Austria)

At Any Price (Ramin Bahrani, Us)

The Attack (Ziad Doueiri, Lebanon/France)

Barbara (Christian Petzold, Germany)

The Central Park Five (Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon, Us)

Everyday (Michael Winterbottom, UK)

Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, Us)

The Gatekeepers (Dror Moreh, Israel)

Ginger And Rosa (Sally Potter, UK)

The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark)

Hyde Park On Hudson (Roger Michell, Us)

The Iceman (Ariel Vromen,...

The most secretive of the fall festivals has now been unveiled. Kicking off Friday, Telluride 2012 has revealed their line-up, with highlights including Michael Haneke‘s Amour, Ramin Bahrani‘s At Any Price, Thomas Vinterberg‘s The Hunt, Roger Michell‘s Hyde Park on Hudson, Jacques Audiard‘s Rust & Bone, Noah Baumbach‘s Frances Ha and Sarah Polley‘s Stories We Tell.

Unfortunately absent are a few major titles, including Paul Thomas Anderson‘s The Master, Derek Cianfrance‘s The Place Beyond the Pines, Terrence Malick‘s To the Wonder, Olivier Assayas‘ Something in the Air, but rumors point to Ben Affleck‘s Argo secretly getting a bow there, as they will announce a few more as the festival progresses this weekend. Check out the line-up and press release below, which includes more programs, such as showings of Stalker and Baraka.

The Act Of Killing (d. Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark, 2012)

Amour (d.

Celebrated Zorba The Greek director Michael Cacoyannis has been laid to rest in Athens, Greece.

The Cyprus-born filmmaker passed away in hospital on Monday after suffering complications from a heart attack and respiratory problems. He was 89.

The star's friends and family gathered at a church in Athens on Thursday to bid farewell to the film icon in an emotional ceremony.

Among the mourners were composer Mikis Theodorakis, actors Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Costas Ferris and Constantine Giannaris, and local politicians.

Greece's Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou gave a touching eulogy at the funeral, telling attendees, "Today we say goodbye to a great creator who brought Greek culture to the rest of the world."...

Director best known for the visually splendid and energetic Zorba the Greek

Although the first Greek films appeared in 1912, long periods of war and instability crippled any attempts at forming a national film industry. This meant that few features were produced until the 1950s, when the director Michael Cacoyannis, who has died aged 90, became the embodiment of Greek cinema, giving it an international reputation which reached a peak of popularity with his Zorba the Greek (1964).

Based on Nikos Kazantzakis's novel, the film burst on to the screen with extraordinary energy and visual splendour. It brilliantly combined the rhythmic music of Mikis Theodorakis and the Oscar-winning black-and-white cinematography of Walter Lassally with indelible performances by Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas and Lila Kedrova (who won the Oscar for best supporting actress).

The film celebrated joie de vivre, yet there was an underlying pessimism and an echo of Greek tragedy...

Michael Cacoyannis, best known for the 1964 Oscar-nominated drama Zorba the Greek, died of complications from a heart attack and chronic respiratory problems early Monday at an Athens hospital. He was either 89 or 90, depending on the source. Born in Limassol, Cyprus, on June 11, 1921 or 1922, the young Cacoyannis (Mihalis Kakogiannis in Greek) was sent to London to study Law, but later turned to the theater, studying Drama at the Old Vic and playing various roles on the British stage, including the lead in Albert Camus' Caligula. Unable to find work in the British film industry, he eventually moved to Athens. Cacoyannis' directorial debut took place in the early '50s, with the breezy comedy Windfall in Athens (1955), whose production lasted two years. International acclaim followed the release of Stella (1955), which was screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. This drama about a free-spirited young woman (Melina Mercouri) torn by her...

Screenwriter and father of contemporary Greek theatre whose work blended mysticism and realism

Outside his native Greece, the playwright Iakovos Kambanellis, who has died of renal failure aged 89, was perhaps best known as a screenwriter on films, including Stella (1955), directed by Michael Cacoyannis. Kambanellis, who was always attracted to contemporary versions of classic tales, had first written the script as a play, Stella With the Red Gloves, based on Carmen, but it was never produced on the Greek stage because of its sexual frankness. Shot in the streets of Athens, the film follows a man-hungry singer (Melina Mercouri) who refuses to marry her lover, and begins a passionate affair with a football player. The film made Mercouri into a star and boosted Greek cinema's international reputation.

Although he did not consider himself a poet, Kambanellis also wrote some fine lyric poems that were turned into memorable songs by Greece's leading composers.

Broadway musical theatre writer who wrote the libretto for Fiddler on the Roof and the screenplay for the 1971 film

Joseph Stein, who has died aged 98, was the last of the great Broadway musical theatre writers coming out of New York revue and television comedy after the second world war. Most famously, he wrote the book, or libretto, for Fiddler on the Roof (1964) and Zorba (1968). "There are no limitations to the subject for a musical," Stein once said, "just as there are no limitations to the subject for a play or a novel. The only limitation that I can see is that it has to have an honesty about the relationship of people to each other."

He cast his net wide, shaping not only the Ukrainian shtetl stories of Sholom Aleichem into the tale of Tevye the milkman and his five daughters in Fiddler on the Roof, but also drawing, perhaps surprisingly,...

GHENT, Belgium -- English composer Clint Mansell was a double winner for his music in Darren Aronofsky's "The Fountain" at the World Soundtrack Awards presented here on Saturday. Mansell won the prize for best original soundtrack as well as the Public Choice Award.

France's Alexandre Desplat was named film composer of the year for scoring "The Queen" and "The Painted Veil" and David Arnold picked up the best original song award for "You Know My Name", written with Chris Cornell for the James Bond film "Casino Royale".

Greek legend Mikis Theodorakis ("Zorba the Greek") was given a lifetime achievement award while Daniel Tarrab and Andres Goldstein shared the Discover of the Year prize for their work on "XXY" and "Inheritance". The award for best young Belgian composer prize was awarded to Werner Viaene for "Belgium, the Movie" by Wim Robberechts.

Los Angeles-based Mansell, a former rocker with the band Pop Will Eat Itself, thanked Aronofsky for giving him the chance to write film music on "Requiem for a Dream" (2000) and the Kronos Quartet and the band Mogwai for performing his score. The self-effacing composer from Britain's midlands seemed genuinely surprised when his name was later called for the best soundtrack prize, triumphing over Mychael Danna for "Little Miss Sunshine", Philip Glass for "Notes on a Scandal", Harry Gregson-Williams for "Shrek the Third" and David Shire for "Zodiac".

"This is really great, fantastic," he said, struggling for words.

BRUSSELS -- Director Walter Hill and "Zorba The Greek" composer Mikis Theodorakis will both receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Flanders Film Festival in Ghent next month.

Hill will receive the Joseph Plateau Award, recognizing his 30 years as a writer, director and producer. His career as writer-director includes "The Warriors", "48 Hours" and "Southern Comfort", while his producing credits include the "Alien" series and the recent Emmy-winning miniseries "Broken Trail".

Theodorakis has written more than 1,000 musical compositions, including symphonies, operas and scores for such films as "Ill Met by Moonlight", "Serpico" and "Z."

The Flanders International Film Festival, which runs Oct. 9-20, will screen more than 200 films, with Kathleen Turner heading the international jury. It includes the Annual World Soundtrack Awards on the closing evening.