Greek Weird Wave’s Absurdism and Tragedy
Greek Weird Wave films are existential with a hefty dose of absurdism, surrealism and tragedy, where alienated protagonists struggle in a meaningless milieu.
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BFI London Film Festival 2023: Critics’ Chat
BFI London Film Festival’s most impressionable films of the year, industry strikes, awards season, and the shoe-leather journalism of a film festival critic.
Lanthimos’ ‘The Favourite’ Plays with History and Our Emotional Impulsivity
Stylistically risqué, The Favourite relates to a certain type of subversive British cinema from filmmakers such as Peter Greenaway, although it is not an imitation.
Queen Anne Costume Drama ‘The Favourite’ Dazzles with Humor, Tragedy, Weirdness
Director Yorgos Lanthimos provides plenty of his trademark absurdity, but The Favourite is his most accessible, painfully human film to date.
Finding Reality in the Fake: Director Yorgos Lanthimos on ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’
Director Yorgos Lanthimos discusses Killing of a Sacred Deer, in which he deliberately cultivates a skewed impression of everyday and cinematic realism.
The Crucible of Suffering in ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’
In The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Director Yorgos Lanthimos evokes both the sinuous psychological horror of Roman Polanski and the icy technical precision of Stanley Kubrick.
2017 Fall Film Preview: At Last, the Film Industry Awakens From Its Slumber
From Gary Oldman in The Darkest Hour to James Franco's meta-experiment Blade Runner: 2049 and Daniel Day-Lewis's final role, here are the movies you'll want to watch ... and a couple you might not.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Dogtooth’ Suspends Language to Explore It
By systematically abusing the language system, Dogtooth confronts the postmodern speculative dichotomy between reality and fiction.