The Last Modernist

Theo Angelopoulos is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive contemporary filmmakers and a highly idiosyncratic film stylist. His work from the early 1970s to The Beekeeper Landscape in the Mist The Suspended Step of the Stalk and the recent Cannes prize-winner Ulysses'' Gaze demonstrates a unique sensibility and a preoccupation with form (notably the long take space and time) and with content particularly Greek politics and history and notions of the journey border-crossing and exile. This new collection of essays surveys his entire cinematic output and presents a discussion of his major films themes and concerns.The contributors argue that Angelopoulos'' sustained oeuvre