An ode to Maria Callas and more, at Vancouver Greek Film Festival, at The Cinematheque to June 19
New screen event highlights a full range of classics and contemporary work
Maria Callas in Maria by Callas.
Vancouver Greek Film Festival runs at The Cinematheque until June 19
OPERA FANS will want to take note as Vancouver-born Greek soprano Lambroula Pappas gets ready to introduce a documentary about one of the world’s most famous divas.
The screening of Maria by Callas, on June 19 at 2 pm, is all part of this weekend’s inaugural Vancouver Greek Film Festival at The Cinematheque.
The 2017 French film by Tom Volf is a meticulously crafted, devotional portrait compiling home movies, letters, memoirs, newsreel footage, performance clips, and rare interview excerpts from when the great “diva” sat down with journalist David Frost in 1970. It’s an intimate doc that strives to demystify the larger-than-life opera legend.
The brainchild of cofounder and head programmer Harry Killas and cofounder and artist Christos Dikeakos, the fest aims to expand audiences’ perception of Greek cinema, with a program that mixes lost classics (1930’s The Apaches of Athens, screening Saturday night) with contemporary milestones, including an ode to the Greek diaspora with Killas’s own Greek to Me, a perfect Father’s Day offering about the director’s 15-year attempt make a documentary about his Greek-Canadian father, and to get him to Greece—with forays into fishing and dentistry.
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