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Nov 24, 2016 · Costa-Gavras is a Greek–French film director and producer, famous for his political movies, and especially his thriller Z, as well as for some interesting comedies.He has received a number of awards, among which the Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award, the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as the London Film Critics’ Circle Award for Director and Screenwriter of the Year.
The master of the political thriller, Costa-Gavras became an instant phenomenon after the mammoth success of Z, and he quickly followed it with the equally riveting The Confession. Based on a harrowing true story from the era of Soviet bloc show trials, the film stars Yves Montand as a Czechoslovak Communist Party official who, in the early fifties, is abducted, imprisoned, and interrogated over a frighteningly long period, and left in the dark about his captors’ motives. Also starring ...
Feb 19, 2024 · Hollywood Flashback: Costa-Gavras’ ‘Z’ Ventured Into New Oscar Territory. The French-Algerian production was the first movie to be nominated for both best picture and foreign-language film.
Z. Directed by Costa-Gavras • 1969 • Algeria, France. Starring Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Irene Papas. A pulse-pounding political thriller, Greek expatriate director Costa-Gavras’s Z was one of the cinematic sensations of the late sixties, and remains among the most vital dispatches from that hallowed era of filmmaking.
Costa-Gavras' most recent film, La Petite Apocalypse (The Minor Apocalypse), is a decidedly minor affair, a satire of 1960s radicals, capitalist greed, the demise of communism, and an overzealous media. It premiered in New York in 1995 not on a theatrical run, but as the opening film in the Sixth Annual Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.
Jun 8, 2022 · Costa-Gavras is the embodiment of a truly noble idea of cinema as a tool for progress and knowledge, a filmmaker who has never given up the conversation with his audience, always offering his ...
Missing (1982) Rated PG. 122 minutes. Much has already been written about the bravery of “Missing”, which dares, we are told, to make a specific attack on American policies in Chile during and after the Allende regime. I wish the movie had been even brave enough to risk a clear, unequivocal, uncompromised statement of its beliefs, instead ...
