Author Andréas Giannopoulos

“A lot of journalists have asked me why my characters are always roleplaying If somebody wants to be or have something, the fastest way to make it happen is usually to lie. A lie can’t last, though – it doesn’...

In his account of the Melbourne University Film Society’s (MUFS) activities in the 1960s, Adrian Danks highlights the organisation’s facilitation of feature-film production. Through the help of the dedicated “U...

In 1953 in Athens, a group of friends – acquainted either through their past membership with leftist militant groups or their imprisonment together during the aftermath of the 1946-49 Greek Civil War – decided ...

“She’s as phony as a three dollar bill, and you’re trying to make her real”, director Howard Hawks told 20th Century-Fox executive Darryl F. Zanuck after the latter complained about losing money on his studio’s...

By the end of the 1920s the success of Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) had made F. W. Murnau a significantly wealthy and commanding figure in Hollywood. But diminishing returns from his follow-up Four Devi...

Graham Greene’s 1943 novel The Ministry of Fear – a “wrong man” story set during the London Blitz in which a recently institutionalised person accidentally obtains a cake containing secret Nazi microfilm – seem...