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Lights,
Camera, OPA!@Myth
The
best of Greek Film since 2000
Myth Restaurant
417 Danforth Ave. (at Chester Ave.), Toronto, Tel:
(416) 461-8383
Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
See our story on "Edo Kai Tora":
video clip
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Come
out to Myth on the Danforth once a month
and get to know Greece through the lenses
of some of the best contemporary feature
film directors. Have a drink, order
dinner and enjoy the show!
All
films have English subtitles,
so bring along those friends who are
cinephiles and those to whom you’ve
tried to explain the Greek
mentality! Mark the dates in your calendar
now.
No admission fee! |
6:30 p.m.- Mingle,
drink, order dinner if you wish
7:00 p.m.- Film projection
9:00 p.m. onwards- Discussion, mingling,
more drinking, music! |
In collaboration
with GREEK CITY
452 Danforth Ave. 416.461.6244
Further details see
schedule below:
Projection systems
provided by JPC
Post Studios
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Tuesday,
September 23
Nyfes "Brides"
(128 min.), 2004
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris
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Thessaloniki Film Festival 2004: Awarded best film, best actress, best music, best cinematography
Set in 1922, the year of the ASIA MINOR catastrophe,
"Nyfes" is the story of a Greek mail
order bride, one of 700, aboard the SS King
Alexander, who falls in love with an American
photographer. She is bound for her new husband,
in Chicago, he is on his way home to a failed
marriage. They have the chance to get to know
each other on this trip that will forever affect
their lives.
"It's not a punishment to remember someone
you love. The punishment is to forget him."
Click
here to WATCH TRAILER:
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Tuesday,
October 28
Mediterraneo
(96 min.), 1991
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
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TAwarded Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, 1992
Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves
a handful of soldiers in a little island. They
are inefficient, clumsy, romantics and dreamers.
Where are the enemy? Not here, just an island
of women and children. Rapidly their radio is
broken and weapons stolen, what can they do
but join in the local culture. They have everything
an Italian soldier could want; drink, drugs,
prostitutes, sun, sand and sea.
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Tuesday,
November 25
Loukoumades me meli
(87 min.), 2005
Director: Olga Malea
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Manos
triggers an unexpected series of events. He
leaves his insatiable lover in Athens and sets
out for the country to find an old flame working
in …his uncle's funeral home! The uncle
has constant cravings for 'loukoumades' (honey
donuts) and a piglet for a pet! Marikaki (the
piglet) winds up being a key figure in the unravelling
of a bitter-sweet truth.
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Tuesday,
December 30
It's Not a New Year's Eve Show!
A comedy/concert event starring Harry Sideropoulos
(admission charge will apply)
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After wowing Toronto with
his hilarious and poignant "Piretos: Comedy
Fever" in April 2007, Harry is back with
a new take on being raised Greek in a foreign
land.
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DIASPORA NOSTRUM is a group
of friends dedicated to organizing events, connecting
people to artists, and spreading culture. Founding members,
Aspasia Dassios, Maria Antonakos, Harry Sideropoulos,
John Preketes, Steve Germanakos, Tom Haralampidis, and
Eva Papolis-Vassilakakos, are professionals from a variety
of fields. As second-generation Hellenes, they are interested
in keeping ties to their own origins while creating
links with other traditions.
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