Silver-screen classics on at Kypseli’s municipal cinema
The mini-festival of film classics that the Thessaloniki Film Festival is organizing in collaboration with the City of Athens is under way in Kypseli. The festival, which runs to September 13, marks the re-opening of the neighbourhood’s open-air Stella municipal cinema. The festival consists of four thematic units, so as to satisfy the taste of a wide range of film buffs. There are all-time international classics, documentaries recording contemporary rock history, comedies and children’s films. The program will be enriched by the parallel screenings of a selection of older as well as recent Greek shorts dealing with relevant themes. The event is a tribute to film critic Babis Aktsoglou, who passed away a few months ago. Tonight’s program features the screening of Stefan Paul’s 1979 documentary «Reggae Sunsplash,» while tomorrow Hal Ashby’s 1983 «Let’s Spend the Night Together» will be shown, after Nikos Leros’s 2003 Greek short «Paint it Black.» The festival will continue with films such as Allan Pennebaker’s 1968 «Monterey Pop» on Wednesday, Woody Allen’s 1979 «Manhattan» on Thursday, Jacques Tati’s «Mon Oncle» on Friday, Mel Brooks’s «Young Frankenstein» on Saturday, Mario Moniccelli’s «I Soliti Ignoti» on Sunday and more. Greek shorts will further include Katerina Filiotou’s «Ela na sou po» (Listen…) on Thursday and Anestis Haralambidis’s «Don’t Miss the Killer» on Wednesday, September 12.
