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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Greek ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Box Set, Interactive Menu, Multi-DVD Set, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Alexander the Great (1980) Megalexandros escapes from prison and captures some English tourists to hold as hostages. He returns to his village and finds there a commune in existence. Voyage to Cythera (1984) An old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren't the way he had hoped for. The Beekeeper (1986) A bee keeper, Spiros, travels from the north to the south of Greece with his bees to meet the spring. Landscape in the Mist (1988) Road movie about two children (Voula and Alexandre) searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991) A TV journalist covering a story about refugees from Albania, Iran and Kurdistan who arrive in Greece by train, learns about their fears, anxieties and displacement... SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Berlin International Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, European Film Awards, Thessaloniki Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, ...The Theo Angelopoulos Collection - Volume 2 - 5-DVD Box Set ( O Megalexandros / Taxidi sta Kythira / O melissokomos / Topio stin omichli (Paesaggio nella nebbia) / To meteoro vima

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This 'middle' set of a great film-maker's career contains some of my most and least favorite of Angelopoulos' work.

But when assessing any great artist's work, even pieces that don't speak to me as personally are always worthy of serious
thought and re-seeing. This is especially true with Angelopoulos' very dense and openly challenging work. I've found, with
almost no exceptions that my understanding and appreciation of what he is trying to do grows on revisiting each film. And
since this was my first time seeing a number of these films, I imagine my passion for some will only grow. So while I'd
probably only give 'Voyage to Cythera' 5 stars (as if one can reduce art to numeric values) the set is worth that rating for
the insight into (and accessibility to) Angelopoulos' evolution and strivings as an artist.

In a way, these box sets from Artificial Eye have been divided strangely. I would argue that the first film on this set. "Alexander
the Great" really belonged on the end of Vol. 1. It's the last of Angelopolous' historical epics. After that his films turned more
intimate, personal, and outwardly naturalistic. So it's a bit out of place here, and very much a piece with the films in the first
collection.

In any case, it's very sad that this great artist's works are not more widely known and appreciated. It's awful that there is so far
no region 1 US release of this massive 3 part retrospective. Hats off to Artificial Eye for making these films easily available at all,
and in good quality transfers. I had only 'Landscape in the Mist' to compare this set with the
legendary Greek 'New Star' releases overseen by Angelopoulos himself, but it was clearly the identical source, right down to dirt
spots at the same frame. The only thing differences were a) he New Star also offered a 5.1 mix, which I actually preferred. I
wonder why AE left that choice off? and b) The New Star disk allotted a whopping 1.8 gigs more to the main feature (which
shouldn't just be the 5.1 mix), and so should theoretically look better. But to my eye, on a 60 inch screen, I didn't notice any
extra compression.

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Some comments on the 5 films:

Alexander the Great (1980) Continuing his epic explorations of Greek history in the 20th century, Angelopoulos goes back to the turn
of the century, where a charismatic rebel leader calling himself "Alexander the Great" takes a handful of visiting English upper class
young lords and ladies hostage, in an effort to win back the land that was taken from the farmers by landowners and bankers. But,
of course, in an Angelopoulos film things are always more complex than they first seem, and Alexander, while charismatic, is also
madly ego driven, and encourages a cult of personality around himself.

Returning to his home village, which is experimenting with utopian Communism and shared wealth, Alexander is seen first as a hero,
fighting to help the people achieve their dream society, but eventually he becomes a tyrant as cruel and arbitrary as any master.

This is a central theme Angelopoulos is exploring. Creating Utopian socialist societies almost always demands people of power and
military action, but those same people almost inevitably corrupt the experiment because of the nature of who they are. The very
thing that makes them enablers of a new order also dooms them to destroy it.

This film has a much more straightforward narrative than Angelopoulos' 2 preceding 'history' masterpieces; "The Traveling Players"
and "The Hunters". Unlike those films, It doesn't jump around in time, and we stay pretty focused on this one specific incident, in
this one specific village. And there is a downside to that. At 3 hours and 19 minutes, the film isn't complex enough to stay as
fascinating as its predecessors. It's full of great images and wonderful, often painfully tense scenes. But on a meta level it's pretty easy
to guess where it's all going, and it can get frustrating waiting for it to get there.

Still an excellent film, partly based in truth (although the incidents actually happened in the 1870s), but it lacks the multi-layered
magic of the two films that proceeded it. It also is generally far more naturalistic, so that when the magic and surreal suddenly do
come up, they sometimes feel out of place and un-integrated.

One thought. It's very interesting to compare this and Bertolucci's "1900", which I just re-watched recently. They are both long, epic
films by European masters set at the turn of the century, and exploring the class struggle, and the domination of the farmers and
workers by bigger more powerful forces. Both are very strong films. "Alexander" is the more subtle, complex, intellectual, and thought
provoking, "1900" the more entertaining and emotional. Both are flawed, but well worth your time.

Voyage to Cythera (1984) One of Angelopoulos's most moving and accessible films (which is not to say it doesn't have a great deal of
complexity). A film director is searching for the right old man to cast in his movie (as a father figure?). Suddenly an old man who
is the director's father (or is he?) a political revolutionary and ex-patriot returns home to Greece to reclaim his place. But he is
unwilling to sell his land to make way for a giant new construction project, making him hated amongst his neighbors who are anxious
to get cash for their rocky soil. Before long, the man is found to no longer have standing as a Greek citizen, and his placed on a raft
off shore while the authorities can figure out to do with him. Beautiful, poetic, ironically, darkly funny, absurd, and very touching film
about old wounds, aging, and obsolescence.

The Beekeeper (1986) This is one I may have to revisit. Beautiful, as is all Angelopoulos' work, on a first viewing there just wasn't
enough story or ideas to sustain it's nearly two hour length. It deals with many of the same themes as "Voyage to Cythera" - old
age, obsolescence, but for me, on first viewing, in a less emotional and more simplistic way.

Marcello Mastroianni gives a lovely, if somewhat limited (by the nature of the part) performance as an aging man battling
depression and isolation. It is an intentional isolation as we see him leave his family at the end of his daughter's wedding in a
sequence that starts the film. He heads out, as his father did before him, to bring his bee colonies to different areas so they can
collect different kinds of pollen. Along the way he reluctantly takes on a young hitchhiker (the character is written as if a teen,
but played by an actress who looks closer to 30). He keeps trying to dump her, but their paths keep crossing, and he grows more
and more obsessed with her.

I never really understood why he avoided her obvious signals of sexual interest so long. A sense of propriety, since she seems almost
as young as his daughter? A fear of what re-opening to passion might bring out in himself? The moodiness is very effective, but
much of the film feels like going in circles, or marking time. The ideas are interesting, but I never found myself caught up emotionally.
In Angelopoulos' best films, their is an almost magical integration of the intellectual, the emotional, and the spiritual, that makes his
slow, lengthy approach feel like richness. Not as much here on my first try.

Landscape in the Mist (1988) I seem to have the same reaction to several of Angelopoulos' films; flawed genius. But each time the flaws
and what feels masterful is different.

In this story of a 12 year old girl and her younger brother on a fruitless journey for their non-existent father in Germany what works is
the ultimate emotional impact of the piece (it left me in tears), and (as always) the sheer poetic power of some of the images.

On the other hand, a key supporting character (the youthful actor Oresteis) is thinly written and functions too-overtly as an
overly-convenient plot point. Some of the dialogue and ideas feel heavy handed, some images are lifted from other films. And
the specific references to his own earlier film `The Traveling Players' is an interesting, brave choice, but also a bit distracting and
intellectual. The young girl is generally terrific, but the young boy feels forced at times at times, which doesn't help.

There are scenes I'll never forget -- maybe the most disturbing (yet completely hidden) rape scene I've ever seen.

I will revisit the film. I can easily imagine my esteem for this, already considerable, growing larger. Indeed, I already remember it
with more fondness than I felt while watching it.

The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991) On first viewing, this was not an Angelopoulos film I loved. Of course it looks great,
that's a given. But I struggled with the central story line.

A journalist tracks Marcello Mastroianni, who may be a famous politician and philosopher who simply vanished one day, to a
refugee zone on the edge of the Greek border, where he lives in squalor with the refugees.

The film is really a chance for Angelopoulos to ask some interesting and pointed questions about the nature of borders; national,
emotional, racial, from ourselves, between men and woman.

The problem, for me, was that the Mastroianni mystery is far less powerful and interesting then the stories of those around him,
who aren't runaways by choice, but in order just to survive. So, for me, it felt like we were focused on the wrong plot, or certainly
the more intellectual, less moving one.

Also, Mastroianni's dubbing into Greek is pretty awful, to the point of being distracting. Oddly, that's something I didn't find in the
earlier "The Beekeeper" (in fact, it was so good in that film, I thought perhaps Mastroianni spoke Greek, and was able to do his own lines).

There are, of course, some memorable and lovely scenes here; An amazing tracking shot as the camera goes by box car after box
car housing refugees from different places, deliberately and chillingly recalling the trains of German carrying doomed prisoners in
WWII. The wordless slow seduction of the journalist in a restaurant is odd, and amazingly tense, as the two people simply look at
each other in fairly wide shot for the longest time, the tiniest shifts in body language and facial expression telling the kind of story
that is usually filled with bantered pointless dialogue. And the film's opening and closing images are particularly powerful.

But at 132 minutes the film feels like it takes more time to say what's on it's mind than it needs and it made me miss Theo's earlier
more complex films which were denser both in terms of cinema technique and in the complexity of the stories themselves,

When Angelopoulos really is emotionally engaged with his characters, as in "Voyage to Cythera" or "The Weeping Meadow" he can
be a wonderful humanist film-maker. But when his heart is on ideas not human beings, he is better when he goes all out in that
direction, as in "The Traveling Players" or "The Hunters". When he splits the difference, you end up with films that just miss in
ideas, style and heart, like "The Beekeeper" and this. That said, of course at some point I'll give it another chance, and quite
possibly change my tune.

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