Author Frankie Kanatas

Voted in 2006 as the greatest Greek film of all time by the Pan-Hellenic Association of Film Critics, Nikos Koundouros’ second feature, O Drakos (The Ogre of Athens, 1956), was maligned upon release in March 19...

b. 31 December 1923, Thessaloniki, Greece d. 16 October 2010, Piraeus, Greece Before the emergence of Theo Angelopoulos in the mid-1970s, Greek Cinema was largely unknown to international cinephiles despite a...

Every cinephile has at least one formative film where the mere mention of the title functions as a time machine, transporting the individual back to the day the work was first viewed. For a fleeting moment thei...