A few weeks after Yorgos Lanthimos‘ The Lobster finally lands in the United States, it’s only fitting we get the next feature from Dogtooth and Alps producer Athina Rachel Tsangari. Following up Attenberg, her latest film is Chevalier, which follows a group of men at sea who attempt to one-up each other in various, increasingly dangerous games.
We said in our review, “From one of the earliest images of them — in a line, flaunting their catch from the sea — the film finds the group conducting virtually every variation on the dick-measuring contest. Unfortunately, this is why Chevalier is the kind of one-note, overly conceptual art film that says all it has to say within its first five minutes, but attempts to bury it with broad jabs at easy targets.”
Starring Yorgos Kentros, Panos Koronis, Vangelis Mourikis, Makis Papadimitriou, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Sakis Rouvas, Yiannis Drakopoulos, Nikos Orfanos, and Kostas Philippoglou,...
We said in our review, “From one of the earliest images of them — in a line, flaunting their catch from the sea — the film finds the group conducting virtually every variation on the dick-measuring contest. Unfortunately, this is why Chevalier is the kind of one-note, overly conceptual art film that says all it has to say within its first five minutes, but attempts to bury it with broad jabs at easy targets.”
Starring Yorgos Kentros, Panos Koronis, Vangelis Mourikis, Makis Papadimitriou, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Sakis Rouvas, Yiannis Drakopoulos, Nikos Orfanos, and Kostas Philippoglou,...
- 4/20/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
There are few narrative tropes seemingly less interesting in today’s film world than the “men behaving like children” subset of film comedy. Be it the Apatow suspended adolescence comedies or the vulgar auteurism (using the actual definition of both of those words and not the confoundingly ridiculous critical term) of Todd Phillips, cinema has become flooded with tales of men at their worst seeking some sort of redemption while never quite maturing in the process. That is, until director Athina Rachel Tsangari jumped into the fray.
While fellow Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has garnered the majority of headlines out of the seemingly still young New Wave of Greek cinema, it has been Tsangari (who helped produce Lanthimos’ masterpiece, Dogtooth) who has brought to the screen some of the most exciting films out of Greece in ages. Debuting with the impossible-to-see The Slow Business Of Going, it took her roughly...
While fellow Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has garnered the majority of headlines out of the seemingly still young New Wave of Greek cinema, it has been Tsangari (who helped produce Lanthimos’ masterpiece, Dogtooth) who has brought to the screen some of the most exciting films out of Greece in ages. Debuting with the impossible-to-see The Slow Business Of Going, it took her roughly...
- 2/25/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Simply put, the SXSW Film, Music and Interactive Festival is one of the biggest, most prestigious events in the media calendar. Taking place annually in Austin, Texas, it is beloved by film fans and filmmakers from all over the world, and has reached such heights by building a reputation for showcasing excellent content. This results in a high level of competition, with the Narrative Feature category alone having received 1442 submissions this year, and the documentary feature category having received 1,013.
The 2016 event looks to be particularly exciting, with many world premieres and feature debuts already announced. The Narrative Feature category will include Julia Hart’s Miss Stevens, Debra Eisenstadt’s Before The Sun Explodes, Joey Klein’s The Other Half, and Musa Syeed’s A Stray, among others, while the Headliner category will feature Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some.
The Narrative Spotlight category includes 9 Rides by Matthew A. Cherry; The Waiting...
The 2016 event looks to be particularly exciting, with many world premieres and feature debuts already announced. The Narrative Feature category will include Julia Hart’s Miss Stevens, Debra Eisenstadt’s Before The Sun Explodes, Joey Klein’s The Other Half, and Musa Syeed’s A Stray, among others, while the Headliner category will feature Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some.
The Narrative Spotlight category includes 9 Rides by Matthew A. Cherry; The Waiting...
- 2/10/2016
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
Hollywood may be in the thick of what many refer to as its annual purple patch, with some of the year’s finest releases coming to the fore just in time for awards season, though we’ll soon be switching gears once again to focus on the film festivals and, by effect, highlighting the more low-key and experimental releases headed our way in 2016.
One of the more prominent dates on the calendar is occupied by South by Southwest, the film festival that takes place in Austin, Texas during mid-March. It’s primed to return this year, kicking off nine days of screenings on Friday, March 11 through March 16 with a string of intriguing releases. We’re a little less than a month out from SXSW 2016, and organizers have rolled out the initial lineup of films to be screened for critics, with Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special, the comic book adaptation of Preacher...
One of the more prominent dates on the calendar is occupied by South by Southwest, the film festival that takes place in Austin, Texas during mid-March. It’s primed to return this year, kicking off nine days of screenings on Friday, March 11 through March 16 with a string of intriguing releases. We’re a little less than a month out from SXSW 2016, and organizers have rolled out the initial lineup of films to be screened for critics, with Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special, the comic book adaptation of Preacher...
- 1/12/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
The American Film Institute announced today the films that will screen in the World Cinema, Breakthrough, Midnight, Shorts and Cinema’s Legacy programs at AFI Fest 2015 presented by Audi.
AFI Fest will take place November 5 – 12, 2015, in the heart of Hollywood. Screenings, Galas and events will be held at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, Dolby Theatre, the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, the El Capitan Theatre and The Hollywood Roosevelt.
World Cinema showcases the most acclaimed international films of the year; Breakthrough highlights true discoveries of the programming process; Midnight selections will grip audiences with terror; and Cinema’s Legacy highlights classic movies and films about cinema. World Cinema and Breakthrough selections are among the films eligible for Audience Awards. Shorts selections are eligible for the Grand Jury Prize, which qualifies the winner for Academy Award®consideration. This year’s Shorts jury features filmmaker Janicza Bravo,...
AFI Fest will take place November 5 – 12, 2015, in the heart of Hollywood. Screenings, Galas and events will be held at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, Dolby Theatre, the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, the El Capitan Theatre and The Hollywood Roosevelt.
World Cinema showcases the most acclaimed international films of the year; Breakthrough highlights true discoveries of the programming process; Midnight selections will grip audiences with terror; and Cinema’s Legacy highlights classic movies and films about cinema. World Cinema and Breakthrough selections are among the films eligible for Audience Awards. Shorts selections are eligible for the Grand Jury Prize, which qualifies the winner for Academy Award®consideration. This year’s Shorts jury features filmmaker Janicza Bravo,...
- 10/22/2015
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In Chevalier, Athina Rachel Tsangari, "working with Yorgos Lanthimos’s regular co-screenwriter Efthimis Filippou, assembles a circle of friends who are both furiously competitive and secretly insecure, and then watches as they nudge each other from plausible levels of macho bluster to something approaching sociopathy," writes Noel Murray at the Playlist. At Film International, Gary M. Kramer notes that "each actor gets a distinctive, indelible moment on screen," from "a Doctor (Yorgos Kendros)," through to "his colleague Christos (Sakis Rouvas), an insurance salesman, Yannis (Yorgos Pirpassopoulos) and his brother Dimitris (Makis Papadimitriou), as well as Josef (Vangelis Mourikis) and Yorgos (Panos Koronis)." We've got reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 10/6/2015
- Keyframe
In Chevalier, Athina Rachel Tsangari, "working with Yorgos Lanthimos’s regular co-screenwriter Efthimis Filippou, assembles a circle of friends who are both furiously competitive and secretly insecure, and then watches as they nudge each other from plausible levels of macho bluster to something approaching sociopathy," writes Noel Murray at the Playlist. At Film International, Gary M. Kramer notes that "each actor gets a distinctive, indelible moment on screen," from "a Doctor (Yorgos Kendros)," through to "his colleague Christos (Sakis Rouvas), an insurance salesman, Yannis (Yorgos Pirpassopoulos) and his brother Dimitris (Makis Papadimitriou), as well as Josef (Vangelis Mourikis) and Yorgos (Panos Koronis)." We've got reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 10/6/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
While all eyes are on Venice, Telluride, Toronto, New York, and London as the places where the new wave of big, anticipated movies are scheduled hit during the fall festival run, cinephiles will want to keep their eye on Locarno. That's where "Attenberg" director Athina Rachel Tsangari will unveil her new film, "Chevalier," and it looks terrifically bonkers. Yorgos Kentros, Panos Koronis, Vangelis Mourikis, Makis Papadimitriou, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Sakis Rouvas, Yiannis Drakopoulos, Nikos Orfanos, and Kostas Philippoglou star in the movie about six men who take a fishing trip on a luxury yacht and start playing a game, with the winner being granted the titular ring. As the first trailer reveals, there is a points system, but i'll be damned if I know how it works. Read More: 'Attenberg' Director Athina Rachel Tsangari Lines Up 'Chevalier' No U.S. date has been set for this yet, but hopefully it surfaces...
- 8/7/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Chevalier
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari // Writers: Efthymis Filippou, Athina Rachel Tsangari
Director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s arresting sophomore film Attenberg made a powerful impression when it screen at the Venice Film Festival in 2010, cementing her importance as part of the new Greek Weird Wave movement. She’s dabbled here and there since as an executive producer, popped up in Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight (2013), and directed a haunting short in 2012, “The Capsule.” She’s back with her third feature, Chevalier, and pairs with one of the behind-the-scenes names of the cinematic movement, Efthymis Filippou, who wrote three features for Yorgos Lanthimos (including the up and coming The Lobster). The film is about a group of men is returning from a winter fishing trip on a yacht. When a mechanical problem leaves them trapped on their boat, somewhere in the gulf of Saronikos, they will kill their time playing a game they devise called Chevalier.
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari // Writers: Efthymis Filippou, Athina Rachel Tsangari
Director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s arresting sophomore film Attenberg made a powerful impression when it screen at the Venice Film Festival in 2010, cementing her importance as part of the new Greek Weird Wave movement. She’s dabbled here and there since as an executive producer, popped up in Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight (2013), and directed a haunting short in 2012, “The Capsule.” She’s back with her third feature, Chevalier, and pairs with one of the behind-the-scenes names of the cinematic movement, Efthymis Filippou, who wrote three features for Yorgos Lanthimos (including the up and coming The Lobster). The film is about a group of men is returning from a winter fishing trip on a yacht. When a mechanical problem leaves them trapped on their boat, somewhere in the gulf of Saronikos, they will kill their time playing a game they devise called Chevalier.
- 1/7/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Despite the lottery-esque sounding odds, the U.S Dramatic Competition section which produces the finest American indie specimens such as Frozen River, Winter’s Bone, Blue Valentine, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Fruitvale Station and Whiplash is fairly consistent in terms of quality. Last year’s crop of sixteen have almost all had their theatrical releases with Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter being the last one out of the gates (pegged with an early 2015 release). Last week we individually looked at our top 80 Sundance Film Fest Predictions (you’ll find 30 other titles worth considering in our intro) and below, we’ve split the list into narrative and non-fiction film items and have both identified and color-coded our picks in an AtoZ cheat sheet. You’ll find 2015′s answer to Whiplash located somewhere in the stack below. Click on the individual titles below, for the film’s profile.
- 11/19/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Here is last week’s caption pic winner. This week’s caption pic is at the bottom of the page.
Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is …
“Only Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen to go!”
Thanks to David for this week’s winning caption!
(source)
Weekend Birthdays! Sakis Rouvas (above) is 42, Diane Keaton is 66, Dot Jones is 50, Julia Sands is 56, Pamela Sue Martin is 61, and Dyan Cannon is 78. Please tell me I’m not the only who remembers … Rock And Roll Mom! Oooohhhh … Ecstacy!
Thomas Roberts is leaving his 11 a.m. shift on MSNBC, and will replace Brian Shactman as the anchor of morning show Way Too Early, which is the lead in to Morning Joe.
The coroner’s report on Paul Walker has been released, and it reveals that the car he was riding in was traveling in excess of 100 mph when the crash occurred.
Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is …
“Only Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen to go!”
Thanks to David for this week’s winning caption!
(source)
Weekend Birthdays! Sakis Rouvas (above) is 42, Diane Keaton is 66, Dot Jones is 50, Julia Sands is 56, Pamela Sue Martin is 61, and Dyan Cannon is 78. Please tell me I’m not the only who remembers … Rock And Roll Mom! Oooohhhh … Ecstacy!
Thomas Roberts is leaving his 11 a.m. shift on MSNBC, and will replace Brian Shactman as the anchor of morning show Way Too Early, which is the lead in to Morning Joe.
The coroner’s report on Paul Walker has been released, and it reveals that the car he was riding in was traveling in excess of 100 mph when the crash occurred.
- 1/3/2014
- by snicks
- The Backlot
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