Apr 24, 2008
Apr 14, 2008
Please blow tomorrow...
Photo via nifada.com (right now)
For four days the sky over Athens has been suffocatingly dense and dismally sunless because of Saharan sand trapped in the clouds overhead. The weather forecast predicts that winds will pick up tomorrow and hopefully disperse the sepia blanket that has made these first days of spring crappy.
Apr 11, 2008
Apr 10, 2008
The signs of spring in Athens (and the tourist season)
Seen on the subway
Short pants, white socks and gym shoes = traditional trademark of tourists (usually americans). The camera hanging around their necks is also a BIG hint...
;-)
Apr 6, 2008
Adieu Jules
As a memorial to Jules Dassin, American director and philhellene, who passed away last week, the Greek Parliament's tv channel showed "The Rehearsal" last night. I have never been able to catch it from the beginning on Greek public television or track it down at the video store. It is a uniquely staged documentary (filmed entirely in a New York warehouse) depicting the events of the Polytechnic uprising of November 1973 during the the Greek junta. Sir Laurence Olivier, Maximilian Schell, Aurthur Miller, young Olympia Dukakis and of course his wife, unforgettable Melina Mercouri and others make up the cast. It is a powerful film, splendidly directed by Dassin, who once said he was most proud of this movie out of all his works.
