Theo Angelopoulos

Theodoros (Theo) Angelopoulos (Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος); (27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 onwards and was one of the world's most influential and widely respected filmmakers.

Quotes

• History is not dead: it is only taking a nap.
  • Angelopoulos is seemingly responding to the popular book of Francis Fukuyama, "The end of history".
  • Horton, Andrew (1999). The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 5. ISBN 0-691-01005-6. OCLC 154632603. 

• You cannot help but be influenced by a place and its culture when you grow up there, especially at a particular time, as I did, when the church was an important part of my cultural (not necessarily religious) life.
  • Horton, Andrew (1999). The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 26. ISBN 0-691-01005-6. OCLC 154632603. 

• The world needs cinema now more than ever. It may be the last important form of resistance to the deteriorating world in which we live. In dealing with borders, boundaries, the mixing of languages and cultures today, I am trying to seek a new humanism, a new way.
  • Horton, Andrew (1999). The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 3. ISBN 0-691-01005-6. OCLC 154632603. 

• I draw techniques from everything I've seen [...] I continue to love [...] very much the films of Murnau, Mizoguchi, Antonioni. More recently: Tarkovsky's Stalker, Godard's Every Man for Himself and of course Ordet. [...] But the only specific influences I acknowledge are Orson Welles, for his use of plan-sequence and deep focus, and Mizoguchi, for his use of time and off-camera space.
  • Horton, Andrew (1999). The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 73. ISBN 0-691-01005-6. OCLC 154632603. 

Quotes about

• Theo Angelopoulos is a masterful filmmaker. He really understands how to control the frame. There are sequences in his work—the wedding scene in The Suspended Step of the Stork; the rape scene in Landscape in the Mist; or any given scene in The Traveling Players—where the slightest movement, the slightest change in distance, sends reverberations through the film and through the viewer. The total effect is hypnotic, sweeping, and profoundly emotional. His sense of control is almost otherworldly.
  • Martin Scorsese describing the art of Angelopoulos.
  • Horton, Andrew (1999). The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. back cover. ISBN 0-691-01005-6. OCLC 154632603. 

• Angelopoulos belongs to a generation for which the cinema could no longer be innocent.
  • Horton, Andrew (1999). The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 73. ISBN 0-691-01005-6. OCLC 154632603. 

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Theo Angelopoulos on Wikipedia
• Media related to Theo Angelopoulos on Wikimedia Commons