Welcome to the fourth annual Greek Film Festival. Greek Cinema Now 2006 offers a gateway to the rich, complex culture of contemporary Greece through its lively and passionate cinema.
Once again the festival's seven-film lineup showcases the range and robustness of recent Greek cinema, with a wide variety of subjects including frantic farce (Woman is a... Tough Person), offbeat cityscape (A Dog's Dream), cross-cultural romance (Alexandria, Liubi), gripping hostage drama (Hostage), and sexually provocative comedy (Honey and the Pig). In addition, the series presents Buzz, a fascinating documentary portrait of Greek American screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides.
Enjoy the festival.
Harry Karahalios, Director
Gene Siskel Film Center The Interparking SELF-PARK, at 20 East Randolph, located between Wabash and State, offers Film Center patrons a discounted parking rate of $14. Patrons are required to show their ticket stub to receive the discount. |
Buzz dir. Spiro N. Taraviras
The screening has been cancelled.
2005, Greece/Germany/Netherlands, 35mm, 120 minutes, In English
Born in Turkey of Greek immigrant parents, novelist/screenwriter Albert Isaac Buzz Bezzerides was the author behind such film noir/crime classics as Kiss Me Deadly, On Dangerous Ground, Thieves' Highway, and They Drive By Night. Interviewed over a period of three years, the vigorous nonagenarian holds forth on his early life as a trucker, his battles with the studios, his run-ins with McCarthyism, and his friendships with the likes of William Faulkner, Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, and Robert Mitchum.