Greek Film on Notorious WWII Massacre Sparks Controversy as Filmmakers Fight Back

Nick Schager Film CriticCinema is a vehicle for investigating historical scars in “Isaac,” a starkly beautiful drama about a filmmaker who returns to his native Lithuania in 1964 to make a movie about a WWII slaughter, and becomes embroiled alongside his schoolmate in totalitarian trouble.

Celebs are getting into the festive spirit earlier than ever this year, with many beginning to share snaps of their lavish Christmas decorations. Famous faces including Rylan Clark, Georgia Kousoulou, and Gok Wan have all given their homes an early festive makeover, and now model Abbey Clancy has joined in the seasonal fun.

Selome Hailu editorNetflix announced a new first look deal with Magic Quill Productions, the new writers’ collective formed by writers and executive producers Joe Henderson, Georgia Lee and Matt Owens.As a production company, Magic Quill will prioritize writers while centering high concept genre stories.

LONDON -- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson held talks with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in London on Tuesday amid a renewed push by Athens for the return of marble statues that once stood in the Parthenon.The Greek government said Mitsotakis planned to raise the issue of the sculptures, which were removed from the ancient temple in Athens more than 200 years ago and are held in the British Museum.The marbles — 17 figures and part of a frieze that decorated the 2,500-year-old

Academy Awards.The best director award went to Venezuelan filmmaker Lorenzo Vigas, whose Mexican movie “La Caja” (The Box) is about a teenager who travels to collect the remains of his father and who begins to doubt his father’s demise.

Christopher Vourlias Samuel Theis’ “Softie” won the top prize at the 62nd Thessaloniki Film Festival, which wrapped Sunday night with a ceremony in Greece’s second city.The film, which premiered in Cannes’ Critics’ Week section, was awarded the Golden Alexander and a €10,000 ($11,400) cash prize by a jury comprised of writer-director Nanouk Leopold, sound designer Roland Vajs and actor Michelle Valley.The Special Jury Award was given to “Clara Sola,” by Natalie Álvarez Mesén, while the Special

V&A Dundee bosses have bowed to popular demand and announced a bonus date for their spectacular Friday Night Fever food and dance fest.

Christopher Vourlias It was the hottest summer on record in Greece, with temperatures regularly soaring past 100 degrees.

Christopher Vourlias Vasilis Kekatos, who won the Palme d’Or and the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 for his short film “The Distance Between Us and the Sky,” is prepping a TV series centered on an unwanted pregnancy in a provincial Greek town.An eight-episode limited series, “Milky Way” follows 17-year-old Maria, a high school senior with dreams of becoming a dancer, whose starry-eyed plans for the future are put on hold when she gets pregnant by her boyfriend Tasos, a young

Christopher Vourlias Nearly two years into a pandemic that has forced much of the movie industry to conduct its business online, the Thessaloniki Film Festival and its industry arm, Agora, will roll out a full slate of in-person events during the festival’s 62nd edition, which runs Nov. 4-14.For Agora head Yianna Sarri, the return to face-to-face meetings is a welcome reminder of pre-pandemic times.

Kanye West today (October 31) brought his Sunday Service back for a livestream event.The artist, who is now known legally as Ye, sparked controversy as the event featured Marilyn Manson who has been accused of sexual assault, misconduct and abuse by multiple women in the past year, including his former partner Evan Rachel Wood. He has denied the allegations, calling them “horrible distortions of reality”.West also controversially brought out the musician at a listening party for new

As soon as the clocks go back this week, we’re officially into the winter season.

A note, handwritten on a roughly-torn piece of lined paper, is haphazardly stuck to an apartment door using two pieces of parcel tape.