HOSTED BY JOS KOETSIER
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DIRECTED BY PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
Edipo Re is a highly personal screenplay adaption by Pasolini of the Greek drama by Sophocles. As his first colour feature, Edipo Re makes brilliant use of wildly alternating Moroccan landscapes, to transpose collective myth into a particular vision that is at once tender, sensual, and wholly unsparing.
HOSTED BY JOS KOETSIER
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TWO PART SCREENING:
1. INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR JULIE TAYMOR
2. OEDIPUS REX (1993)
An "Opera-oratorio in two acts after Sophocles" by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, based on Sophocles's tragedy, performed in the language of the audience, in this version in Japanese.
HOSTED BY JOS KOETSIER
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DIRECTED BY PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
Master Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini beautifully re-imagines Euripides' ancient Greek tragedy with Maria Callas in the title role. In this haunting tale, Medea sacrifices everything to win the heart of Jason, captain of the Argonauts, but when he spurns her love, Medea exacts a scorching revenge that destroys everyone in its path.
HOSTED BY JOS KOETSIER
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DIRECTED BY PANTELIS VOULGARIS
A young female character, Nikki Douka, from Samothraki, is sailing to the U.S. to fulfill a marriage contract and save her family honor. Her skills as a seamstress keep her busily sewing throughout the voyage to alter wedding dresses for the third-class voyagers. But along the way, she meets a young American photographer who is returning from the Middle East...
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