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LeMonde
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- LeMonde
In Athens, a cinema keeps the tradition of hand-painted film posters alive
Letter from Athens The managers of the Athinaion have worked tirelessly to preserve an art form that has almost disappeared. In the entrance hall of this central Athens cinema, only an old vintage projector displayed in front of the popcorn bar echoes the retro style of the enormous, freshly hand-painted movie posters exhibited on the building's façade. From Pierrot le Fou to Avatar, in addition to the dozen or so Greek films produced each year, the Athinaion has commissioned and displayed hand-painted posters for new films shown in its theaters every week for the past 65 years. This tradition, which began to fade from the film world in the mid-1970s, has never been abandoned by the successive owners of this cinema – all members of the same family – since its founding in 1960. Behind every one of these posters is the work of artist Virginia Axioti, who took over about 10 years ago from Vassilis Dimitriou, a former boxer and self-taught painter who died in September 2020. The granddaughter of one of the two brothers who founded the Athinaion, Axioti remains Greece's last movie poster painter to have kept this endangered art alive on a global scale. Each week, the Athens School of Fine Arts graduate paints the billboards for films shown in the Athinaion's two large theaters using acrylics in her studio on the island of Lesbos.
Korea Herald
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
CGV unveils showcase of restored French classics
Bresson, Godard, Melville return to big screen in digital restorations CGV will screen four restored French classics as part of a special remastered showcase at its select arthouse locations through June, the theater chain announced Monday. The program opens May 21 with Robert Bresson's "Quatre nuits d'un reveur" ("Four Nights of a Dreamer," 1971), an adaptation of Dostoevsky's "White Nights." The Jury Prize winner at the 21st Berlin International Film Festival, the film follows a dreamer's fleeting rendezvous with a heartbroken woman on the streets of Paris. Jean-Luc Godard's "Pierrot le Fou" (1965) arrives June 4 in celebration of its 60th anniversary. Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina, the film charts a disillusioned man's escape from bourgeois life as he takes off on a road trip to the Mediterranean with a mysterious woman. Also screening is Godard's "Alphaville" (1965), which won the Golden Bear at Berlin. This genre-blending sci-fi noir following secret agent Lemmy Caution's mission in a computer-run dystopian city will be shown in Korea for the first time in 4K restoration. Rounding out the lineup is Jean-Pierre Melville's "L'Armee des ombres" ("Army of Shadows," 1969), a stark depiction of French Resistance fighters during World War II adapted from Joseph Kessel's 1943 novel. CGV will offer special promotions, including A3-sized posters for all screenings and exclusive merchandise available at select showings of "Pierrot le Fou."
