ManosHatzidakis &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:ManosHatzidakis @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:47:42 +0200 Sweet Movie (Dušan Makavejev, 1974) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-2pqf <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Sweet Movie (Dušan Makavejev, 1974)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="occasion" International Chocolate Day/div div class="img" Sweet Movie (1974)/div div class="caption" The most virgin, Miss 1984 (Carole Laure), bathing in chocolate. DP: Pierre Lhomme./div div class="txt" Chocolate for International Chocolate Day (Milton S. Hershey's birthday) "In all my years of practice, I've never seen anything so sweet. A rosebud." ### – Dr. Mittelfinger Miss Canada, winner of the "most virgin" contest, escapes her rich, milk tycoon husband into a world of anarchy, lust, and sugar. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #InternationalChocolateDay #chocolate #food #DušanMakavejev #CaroleLaure #PierreClémenti #AnnaPrucnal #SamiFrey #JohnVernon #ManosHatzidakis #PierreLhomme #comedy #France #Canada #WestGermany #1970s/div /section ]]>

Sweet Movie (Dušan Makavejev, 1974)

Sep

13

International Chocolate Day

Sweet Movie (1974)

The most virgin, Miss 1984 (Carole Laure), bathing in chocolate. DP: Pierre Lhomme.

Chocolate for International Chocolate Day (Milton S. Hershey's birthday)

“In all my years of practice, I've never seen anything so sweet. A rosebud.”

– Dr. Mittelfinger

Miss Canada, winner of the “most virgin” contest, escapes her rich, milk tycoon husband into a world of anarchy, lust, and sugar.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #InternationalChocolateDay #chocolate #food #DušanMakavejev #CaroleLaure #PierreClémenti #AnnaPrucnal #SamiFrey #JohnVernon #ManosHatzidakis #PierreLhomme #comedy #France #Canada #WestGermany #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-2pqf Sat, 13 Sep 2025 20:16:00 +0200 America America (Elia Kazan, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wy9f <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" America America (Elia Kazan, 1963)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="occasion" New Amsterdam/div div class="img" America America (1963)/div div class="caption" Stavros (Stathis Giallelis) and other passengers on the ship. Their faces are reflected in a glass pane, showing dozens waiting at what appears to be Ellis Island. DP: Haskell Wexler./div div class="txt" A film about New York to commemorate the incorporation of New Amsterdam. The official Bales' rule states the year 1624, but that is the year of settlement, and even that is one year off. To cut a long story short, New Amsterdam was incorporated as a city on February 2, 1653. "My name is Elia Kazan. I am a Greek by blood, a Turk by birth and an American because my uncle made a journey." ### – Elia Kazan, voice-over America America tells the story of director Kazan's grandfather through the life of the Greek Stavros Topouzoglou (Stathis Giallelis), who was adamant to start anew, in New York./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #NewAmsterdam #EliaKazan #StathisGiallelis #FrankWolff #HarryDavis #ElenaKaram #EstelleHemsley #ManosHatzidakis #HaskellWexler #drama #NewYork #USA #1960s/div /section ]]>

America America (Elia Kazan, 1963)

Feb

2

New Amsterdam

America America (1963)

Stavros (Stathis Giallelis) and other passengers on the ship. Their faces are reflected in a glass pane, showing dozens waiting at what appears to be Ellis Island. DP: Haskell Wexler.

A film about New York to commemorate the incorporation of New Amsterdam. The official Bales' rule states the year 1624, but that is the year of settlement, and even that is one year off. To cut a long story short, New Amsterdam was incorporated as a city on February 2, 1653.

“My name is Elia Kazan. I am a Greek by blood, a Turk by birth and an American because my uncle made a journey.”

– Elia Kazan, voice-over

America America tells the story of director Kazan's grandfather through the life of the Greek Stavros Topouzoglou (Stathis Giallelis), who was adamant to start anew, in New York.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #NewAmsterdam #EliaKazan #StathisGiallelis #FrankWolff #HarryDavis #ElenaKaram #EstelleHemsley #ManosHatzidakis #HaskellWexler #drama #NewYork #USA #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wy9f Sun, 02 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0100 Οι παράνομοι [Oi paranomoi / The Outlaws] (Nikos Koundouros, 1958) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ct5n <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Οι παράνομοι [Oi paranomoi / The Outlaws] (Nikos Koundouros, 1958)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 26/div div class="occasion" Survival Day/div div class="img" Οι παράνομοι (1958)/div div class="caption" One of the convicts and the woman. DP: Giovanni Varriano./div div class="txt" Convicts: a convict settlement in Sydney Cove on January 26, 1788 marks what is considered the founding of Australia. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #AustraliaDay #SurvivalDay #InvasionDay #convicts #NikosKoundouros #TitosVandis #PetrosFyssoun #AnestisVlahos #NellyAngelidou #GiorgosOikonomou #ManosHatzidakis #GiovanniVarriano #drama #war #Greece #1950s/div /section ]]>

Οι παράνομοι [Oi paranomoi / The Outlaws] (Nikos Koundouros, 1958)

Jan

26

Survival Day

Οι παράνομοι (1958)

One of the convicts and the woman. DP: Giovanni Varriano.

Convicts: a convict settlement in Sydney Cove on January 26, 1788 marks what is considered the founding of Australia.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #AustraliaDay #SurvivalDay #InvasionDay #convicts #NikosKoundouros #TitosVandis #PetrosFyssoun #AnestisVlahos #NellyAngelidou #GiorgosOikonomou #ManosHatzidakis #GiovanniVarriano #drama #war #Greece #1950s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ct5n Sun, 26 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0100 Ο Δράκος [O Drakos / The Ogre of Athens / The Ogre / The Vampire] (Nikos... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/o-drakos-1956-b1p7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ο Δράκος [O Drakos / The Ogre of Athens / The Ogre / The Vampire] (Nikos Koundouros, 1956)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="occasion" Martini/div div class="img" Ο Δράκος (1956)/div div class="caption" The boss, Hondros (Giannis Argyris), pours out a stiff drink on the floor of his cabaret with Mr Tomas (Dinos Iliopoulos) in the background. DP: Kostas Theodoridis./div div class="txt" The first film dinner of 2024. /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #NikosKoundouros #DinosIliopoulos #GiannisArgyris #MargaritaPapageorgiou #MarikaLekaki #ManosHatzidakis #KostasTheodoridis #FilmNoir #satire #crime #holidays #romance #drama #music #Greece #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Ο Δράκος [O Drakos / The Ogre of Athens / The Ogre / The Vampire] (Nikos Koundouros, 1956)

Jan

2

Martini

Ο Δράκος (1956)

The boss, Hondros (Giannis Argyris), pours out a stiff drink on the floor of his cabaret with Mr Tomas (Dinos Iliopoulos) in the background. DP: Kostas Theodoridis.

The first film dinner of 2024.

#FilmDinner #NikosKoundouros #DinosIliopoulos #GiannisArgyris #MargaritaPapageorgiou #MarikaLekaki #ManosHatzidakis #KostasTheodoridis #FilmNoir #satire #crime #holidays #romance #drama #music #Greece #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/o-drakos-1956-b1p7 Tue, 02 Jan 2024 18:17:54 +0100 Ο Δράκος [O Drakos / The Ogre of Athens / The Ogre / The Vampire] (Nikos... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/o-drakos-1956 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ο Δράκος [O Drakos / The Ogre of Athens / The Ogre / The Vampire] (Nikos Koundouros, 1956)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 31/div div class="occasion" New Year's Eve/div div class="img" Ο Δράκος (1956)/div div class="caption" Men in identical white shirts and dark slacks dancing in the club during after hours. Their upper bodies seem top-heavy, tending to lunge towards the ground. DP: Kostas Theodoridis./div div class="txt" New Year's Eve celebrations. &nbsp; A mousy bank clerk (Dinos Iliopoulos), who bears an uncanny resemblance to a criminal on the run, finds himself hiding in a shady cabaret on New Year's Eve instead of spending a quiet evening alone. During his forced stay at the nightclub, he comes to enjoy and identify more and more with his newfound persona and assumes the role of the notorious "Drago". &nbsp; An initial box office dud, it is now considered one of the top ten all-time best Greek films. &nbsp; Happy new year, everyone! On to many more cinematic discoveries!/div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NewYearsEve #NikosKoundouros #DinosIliopoulos #GiannisArgyris #MargaritaPapageorgiou #MarikaLekaki #ManosHatzidakis #KostasTheodoridis #Zeibekiko #FilmNoir #satire #crime #holidays #romance #drama #music #Greece #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Ο Δράκος [O Drakos / The Ogre of Athens / The Ogre / The Vampire] (Nikos Koundouros, 1956)

Dec

31

New Year's Eve

Ο Δράκος (1956)

Men in identical white shirts and dark slacks dancing in the club during after hours. Their upper bodies seem top-heavy, tending to lunge towards the ground. DP: Kostas Theodoridis.

New Year's Eve celebrations.

 

A mousy bank clerk (Dinos Iliopoulos), who bears an uncanny resemblance to a criminal on the run, finds himself hiding in a shady cabaret on New Year's Eve instead of spending a quiet evening alone. During his forced stay at the nightclub, he comes to enjoy and identify more and more with his newfound persona and assumes the role of the notorious “Drago”.

 

An initial box office dud, it is now considered one of the top ten all-time best Greek films.

 

Happy new year, everyone! On to many more cinematic discoveries!

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NewYearsEve #NikosKoundouros #DinosIliopoulos #GiannisArgyris #MargaritaPapageorgiou #MarikaLekaki #ManosHatzidakis #KostasTheodoridis #Zeibekiko #FilmNoir #satire #crime #holidays #romance #drama #music #Greece #1950s ★★★★☆

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