Top Greek film maker Angelopoulos dies in road accident
Agelopoulos won major awards in a career spanning more than 40 years
An award-winning Greek film director, Theodoros Angelopoulos, has died after being hit by a motorcycle.
Angelopoulos was 76. He died in hospital from head injuries after being knocked down near the port of Piraeus.
He was famous for a style of film that involved long, carefully choreographed sequences, as he examined political and historical themes from modern Greece.
He won the top prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival – the Palme d’Or – for his film Eternity and a Day.
Many of his other films – including Ulysses’s Gaze and The Travelling Players – also received awards and high critical praise.
The Nazi occupation of Greece in World War II and ensuing civil war were big themes in his early films.
He had started shooting a new film about the effect of the current economic crisis on Greeks. He was crossing a road when the motorcycle hit him.
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Guinea Pig 3: He Never Dies (1986)
A men gets depressed because his girlfriend has dumped him for a friend. He tries to attempt suicide but to no avail, so he decides to scare the guy that stole his girl, by throwing his own guts at him.
The comedic Guinea Pig, livelier and with an actual story… and dialogue. And the punk music at the beginning sets the tone.This one’s got some character development and drama.
Painful to watch, in a good way, just like the 1st 2. Great prosthetic work. When he was first torturing himself i didn’t know whether to cringe or laugh, what an boob. The man who cannot die also happens to be an idiot.
After chopping his hand off, he decides he wants it back and tapes it. The weird hallucinations soon kick in, he decides to phone a friend. Some romance is thrown in and then i start thinking “this isn’t what i expected”. Too much stalling with the drama and comedy. Including a crazy credits.
The acting was very noon-time television. Cheesy (cheap looking) and yet disturbingly entertaining, and casually laughing at the J-horror gore genre.
“Dude you’re doing it wrong” dementedly hilarious. For those with a tough stomach.
What unappetizing feast awaits us in??? Guinea Pig 4: Mermaid in a Manhole (1988)
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