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Title: Yorgos Lanthimos
Post by: wilder on June 11, 2012, 07:53:06 PM
'Dogtooth' Director Yorgos Lanthimos Developing 3 English-Language Projects
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Yorgos Lanthimos, has recently announced three upcoming projects to feature an English-speaking cast.

Lanthimos' third feature, "Alps" is set to hit New York theatres July 13th, and during the film's press tour he spoke to Indiewire about his busy slate, noting that two of the projects are original, and the other is an offered gig. "The only thing I can say is that they're all very different," he said.

Luckily, that statement turned about to be half-untrue, because Lanthimos then went on to drop some details on exactly what those diverse upcoming projects would be. Kept under wraps at this point were a book adaptation and the for-hire directing job, "a British period film" according to Lanthimos, but more intriguing are plans for the third, a sci-fi/fantasy film. The project will find the director re-teaming with his "Dogtooth" and "Alps" co-writer Efthymis Filippou, and is said rightly to be a larger-scale effort, but with a similar tone, likely meaning wryly disturbing with a stylized form of tension that lingers throughout.

Lanthimos' previous work has always focused on behavior and ritual, and the psychology involve in both, so a sci-fi film sounds perfectly suited to an artist intent on reflecting society's current issues, along with his signature jet-black humor. And if it appears these films would artistically drain Lanthimos' mana, if you will, plans to direct a short in the U.K. before beginning the three features proves otherwise. "I want to do something creative and not just deal with the practicalities of making the films," he said, almost describing his past efforts as paint-by-number affairs, which they are distinctively not.
Title: Re: Giorgos Lanthimos
Post by: Lottery on April 21, 2013, 09:02:48 AM
Just watched Alps. What a bizarre little thing. I'm not sure exactly what I got out of it but it certainly had my attention. Intriguing stark, realistic feeling to something which is ultimately a very absurd/absurdist film. Funny.

How's Dogtooth?
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Post by: polkablues on April 21, 2013, 04:06:57 PM
Dogtooth is amazing and one-of-a-kind. It's one of those movies that sneaks up on you and ends up hitting you like a brick. I haven't seen Alps yet, but I'm excited to. There's nobody else making movies like this guy. He shares some sensibilities with Von Trier, maybe Roy Andersson, but he's definitely his own filmmaker.
Title: Re: Giorgos Lanthimos
Post by: jenkins on April 21, 2013, 05:39:21 PM
polkajoke!

the greeks are right now expanding a cinematic lyrical sense that has plenty of prefiguring. i <3 czech, swedish, and british histories. french too of course. lanthimos himself starred in the post-dogtooth movie attenberg, made by dogooth producer athina tsangari (who also produced before midnight! hmm). a recent and youthful example is ektora lygizos's boy eating the bird's food

like with past examples, it's exciting the way political trouble reshapes national cinema. and today's modern art fashionability of minimalism is an interesting combo

i think dogtooth is ok but i know people who love it, would say in general la loves it
Title: Re: Giorgos Lanthimos
Post by: polkablues on April 21, 2013, 06:10:04 PM
Quote from: trashculturemutantjunkie on April 21, 2013, 05:39:21 PM
i think dogtooth is ok but i know people who love it, would say in general la loves it

It's an aggressively distancing film at first, which is something I don't always respond well to, and I imagine that puts some people off of it. I don't have a good sense of the general consensus surrounding it, but it got under my skin deep.
Title: Re: Giorgos Lanthimos
Post by: jenkins on April 21, 2013, 08:13:45 PM
tbh the reason i call it "ok" is really self-embarrassing

i saw the movie twice with two groups of friends. and after the 1st time we were all like "phew, that was so good, cool." so i told other friends and took them to see it for my 2nd time. afterwards i said "wasn't that a slightly funny and totally bonkers fantasy land??" and a friend said "i think it was a real land and the father was a liar" and i said "are you sure? it's not a story set in an invented environment?" and the friend said "no it's real, pretty obvious" and i said "oh. oh, i'm kinda over it. now. huh."

so, k
Title: Re: Giorgos Lanthimos
Post by: wilder on October 23, 2013, 01:37:02 PM
Jason Clarke, Lea Seydoux, Ben Whishaw & Olivia Colman To Star In Yorgos Lanthimos' 'The Lobster'
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Distinct, odd, disturbing and hilarious are all words that can be used to describe the last two films from Greek helmer Yorgos Lanthimos. With 2009's Oscar nominated "Dogtooth" and 2011's "Alps," the helmer put his mark on the world of international cinema in a big way, all while managing to land on the kind of radars that directors of decidedly out-there cinema rarely attract. And now he's going all in on his most intriguing prospect yet, a star-studded, English language debut.

Jason Clarke, Lea Seydoux, Ben Whishaw and Olivia Colman are slated to star in the futuristic romance, "The Lobster." Re-teaming with screenwriting partner Efthymis Filippou, this is of course far from your usual love story, with the filmmaker once again playing with ideas of identity, connection and more. Here's the official synopsis:

An unconventional love story set in a dystopian near future where single people, according to the rules of the Town, are arrested and transferred to the Hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing and released into the woods. A desperate Man escapes from the Hotel to the Woods where the Loners live and there he falls in love, although it's against their rules.

The Ireland, U.K. and Greece co-production will hit the sales floor at A.F.M. in November, with production to begin next March.
Title: Re: Yorgos Lanthimos
Post by: wilder on May 05, 2015, 01:46:54 PM
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Title: Re: Yorgos Lanthimos
Post by: Stefen on May 05, 2015, 07:20:04 PM
This is my most anticipated flick for the year.  :yabbse-thumbup:

Yorgos Lanthimos is probably the most exciting filmmaker working right now and this is the perfect time for him to make this because thanks to "Marvel Cinematic Universe", "English-language debut" isn't the number one red flag that a movie will be garbage anymore.
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Post by: wilder on September 24, 2015, 03:38:30 PM
Emma Stone, Kate Winslet & Olivia Colman To Star In Yorgos Lanthimos' Period Drama 'The Favourite'
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It's not often, in fact it's pretty rare, for a foreign filmmaker making decidedly weird arthouse movies to attract A-list casts to make his movies, but Yorgos Lanthimos is the exception. After wowing cinephiles with "Dogtooth" and "Alps," the filmmaker managed to score Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Lea Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, and more for his no less oddball "The Lobster." And quick to strike while the iron is hot, the director is gearing up his next movie and has more big names attached, but for something that sounds quite conventional.

Emma Stone, Kate Winslet, and Olivia Colman are all in talks to join "The Favorite." This is not a movie spawned from the brain of Lanthimos, but is instead a gig he was offered, a period drama penned by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara. The 17th century set story will find Colman all dressed up as Queen Anne, with Winslet as Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and Stone as Sarah's distant relative Abigail, with the tale detailing the various political machinations of royalty.
Title: Re: Yorgos Lanthimos
Post by: wilder on February 09, 2016, 02:09:17 PM
'The Lobster' Director Yorgos Lanthimos To Helm Revenge Tale 'The Killing Of A Sacred Deer'
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There's striking when the iron is hot, and then there's Yorgos Lanthimos' ever growing schedule. While he took two years between "Dogtooth" and "The Alps," and another four until "The Lobster" which debuted on the festival circuit last year, and comes to U.S. cinemas this spring, the director is now starting to up the pace. He's already in pre-production on "The Favorite," a period drama that will star Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz, and now he's got another gig brewing.

Deadline reports that Lanthimos will co-write and direct "The Killing Of A Sacred Deer" (good title).  Described as a psychological thriller with a supernatural touch, the story is about a young man seeking vengeance, and a doctor fighting for the survival of his family. And in Lanthimos' hands, that will probably mean something very distinct for the genre.

This one is probably a bit down the line for the director, but given that he can now attract big names to his movies, it likely won't be long until the pieces 'Sacred Deer' start coming together.
Title: Re: Yorgos Lanthimos
Post by: Lottery on June 24, 2016, 09:15:09 AM
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHCi9fThDjx/?taken-by=radiohead

Did the latest Radiohead vignette featuring Denis Lavant.
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Post by: Jeremy Blackman on January 06, 2017, 11:52:36 PM
Kirsten Dunst To Topline Dark Comedy Series From George Clooney, Grant Heslov & 'The Lobster' Helmer In Works At AMC

http://deadline.com/2017/01/kirsten-dunst-star-comedy-series-amc-george-clooney-grant-heslov-the-lobster-helmer-1201880036/

EXCLUSIVE: AMC is developing On Becoming A God In Central Florida, a 1990s-set one-hour dark comedy series, which has Kirsten Dunst attached to star and executive produce. The project, to be directed by The Lobster helmer Yorgos Lanthimos, hails from George Clooney and Grant Heslov's Smokehouse Pictures, Sony's TriStar Television and AMC Studios.

Written by Robert Funke and Matt Lutsky based on a spec script they wrote, On Becoming A God is a darkly comedic story about the cult of free enterprise and one woman's relentless pursuit of the American Dream in the early '90s. Recently widowed and left with nothing, minimum-wage Orlando water park employee Krystal Gill (Dunst) lies, schemes and cons her way up the ranks of Founders American Merchandise — the cultish, flag-waving, multibillion-dollar pyramid scheme that drove her to ruin in the first place.

Funke, Lutsky, Dunst and Lanthimos executive produce alongside Oscar winners Clooney and Heslov (Argo) through Smokehouse. The project, in early development, will be overseen by Sarah Shepard for Smokehouse.
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Post by: wilder on March 21, 2017, 04:58:23 PM
Yorgos Lanthimos & Colin Farrell Reteam For New Amazon Series
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Variety reveals that Farrell will star, and Lanthimos will direct a developing Amazon series based on Oliver North and the Iran-Contra affair. Enzo Mileti and Scott Wilson are working on the scripts, which Lanthimos will also put a pen to, with Ben Stiller and his Red Hour Films among the producers.
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Post by: wilder on February 23, 2019, 05:09:58 AM
Yorgos Lanthimos to Adapt and Direct Jim Thompson's 'Pop. 1280'
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Those looking for more trademark nastiness from Yorgos Lanthimos may not have to wait long. The director of Oscar-nominated "The Favourite" will next tackle an adaptation of Jim Thompson's "Pop. 1280." Lanthimos will write the script, direct, and produce alongside Imperative Entertainment and Element Pictures, in association with Discovery Productions.

Lanthimos has been a fan of the novel for a while, and the plot description from the book's publisher makes it clear why this is right up the filmmaker's dark alley:

Quote"Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest criminals. He knows that nobody in tiny Potts County actually wants to follow the law and he is perfectly content lazing about, eating five meals a day, and sleeping with all the eligible women.

Still, Nick has some very complex problems to deal with. Two local pimps have been sassing him, ruining his already tattered reputation. His girlfriend Rose is being terrorized by her husband. And then, there's his wife and her brother Lenny who won't stop troubling Nick's already stressed mind. Are they a little too close for a brother and a sister?

With an election coming up, Nick needs to fix his problems and fast. Because the one thing Nick does know is that he will do anything to stay sheriff. Because, as it turns out, Sheriff Nick Corey is not nearly as dumb as he seems.
"

This is the novel's second time making it to the screen, previously in 1981 with Bertrand Tavernier's French film "Coup de Torchon." Back in 2012, Andrew Dominik was attached to direct his own adaptation of the novel, which would've starred Woody Harrelson and Leonardo DiCaprio. There's no word yet on who star this time around.
Title: Re: Yorgos Lanthimos
Post by: wilder on July 10, 2019, 11:40:10 PM
September 3, 2019

Kino is reissuing Dogtooth (2009), and Alps (2011) is coming to blu-ray for the first time

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In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence of the outside world, a Greek couple transforms their home into a gated compound of cultural deprivation and strict rules of behavior. But children cannot remain innocent forever. When the father brings home a young woman to satisfy his son's sexual urges, the family's engineered "reality" begins to crumble, with devastating consequences.



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A group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process.
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Post by: wilder on August 09, 2019, 04:50:02 PM
12 minutes, premiered today at Locarno



A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life. Returning to the short film with Nimic, Yorgos Lanthimos proposes a refined and lighter version of his disturbing fantasy, preferring to outline the character or more broadly the personality rather than dystopia.

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Post by: wilder on November 20, 2019, 10:45:39 PM
Yorgos Lanthimos To Direct & Produce 'The Man In The Rockefeller Suit' Limited Series In Works At Searchlight TV
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The Favourite and The Lobster director Yorgos Lanthimos is set to direct and executive produce an adaptation of The Man In The Rockefeller Suit based on Mark Seal's New York Times bestselling non-fiction book, which is being developed as a limited series at Searchlight Television. Donald De Line and Element Pictures will exec produce with Lanthimos.

Written by David Gilbert, based on the book The Man In The Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor, the limited series adaptation tells the true story of Clark Rockefeller, a gregarious, successful, and mysterious descendant of the Rockefeller clan. When his wife Sandra begins to suspect that Clark isn't who he says he is, his decades-long web of deception slowly begins to unravel.

This reunites Fox Searchlight and Lanthimos following their collaboration on The Favourite, which earlier this year was nominated for 10 Oscars, including best picture and director for Lanthimos, winning best lead actress for Olivia Colman.

The Man in the Rockefeller Suit adaptation, produced by De Line , was initially in development at Fox Searchlight as a feature written by David Bar Katz, with Benedict Cumberbatch at one point loosely attached to play the lead and Pablo Trapero before that attached to direct.

In TV, the case was the subject of the 2010 Lifetime movie Who Is Clark Rockefeller?, in which Rockefeller was played by Eric McCormack. Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter is an imposter who conned his way into various jobs on Wall Street — as well as a marriage — posing as a member of the Rockefeller family, until his past finally caught up with him.

Fox Searchlight Pictures launched Searchlight Television in 2018. This past spring, the studio landed its first series order at Hulu for The Dropout, a limited series starring and executive produced by Kate McKinnon based on ABC News/ABC Radio's podcast about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos. The division also has projects in development at FX and Apple.

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Post by: wilder on December 17, 2019, 09:43:13 AM
Yorgos Lanthimos in Talks to Direct Gothic Western 'The Hawkline Monster'
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Hal Ashby and Tim Burton previously took runs at trying to mount an adaptation of the novel by Richard Brautigan.

Yorgos Lanthimos, the filmmaker behind the acclaimed period drama  The Favourite , is in negotiations to direct New Regency's adaptation of the novel The Hawkline Monster.

Roy Lee, one of the producers behind the horror hit  It ; Andrew Trapani (Winchester ); and Steven Schneider, who last worked on Glass and Pet Sematary , are producing the Gothic Western pic. Lanthimos will also produce with Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element Pictures, the shingle behind Lanthimos' films The Killing of a Sacred Deer and The Lobster.

The move kicks the decades-in-the-making project into a higher gear after Regency picked it up in June when it made a deal with the estates of both the author, Richard Brautigan, and filmmaker Hal Ashby (Being There).

Ashby spent over a decade trying to mount Hawkline Monster in the 1970s and 1980s but sparred with Brautigan over the script, even as he had Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman, and later Jeff and Beau Bridges, on board for the two-hander.

The book, first published in 1974, tells of two unlikely hero gunslingers hired by a 15-year-old girl named Magic Child to kill the monster that lives in ice caves under the basement of a house inhabited by a young woman named Miss Hawkline. What follows is a unique adventure where there is more to Magic Child, Miss Hawkline and the house than meets the eye.

After Ashby died in 1988, Tim Burton also tried to tackle the adaptation, this time for Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson, but that, too, got lost along the project's long trail. If anything, it does show the project continues to attract top directing and acting talent.

Lanthimos continues that lineage and is also a director who draws acclaimed actors into his efforts. The Favourite starred Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone, and earned Lanthimos a best director Oscar nomination as well as one for best picture. (The movie itself was nominated for 10 Oscars and won one.) The Killing of a Sacred Deer starred Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman.

(And with Hawkline Monster being unearthed anew by Hollywood, Brautigan's other novels are now being looked at as well.)

Ianthe Brautigan and Paul Swensen will executive produce the pic. Natalie Lehmann will oversee for New Regency.

Lanthimos is repped by CAA, Ilene Feldman Management and U.K.'s Sayle Screen.
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Post by: wilder on January 10, 2020, 05:09:03 PM
March 3, 2020

Kinetta (2005) is coming to blu-ray from Kino

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Kinetta is the perversely fascinating second feature by Yorgos Lanthimos, who would later go on to international renown with Dogtooth, Alps, and The Favourite. A detective, a photo shop clerk, and a chambermaid stage re-enactments of the murders by a local serial killer. What at first seems to be an investigative experiment turns out to be more of an exploration into the depths of their own psychosexual obsessions.
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Post by: wilder on April 07, 2020, 02:10:46 AM
Also on "The Channel"

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Post by: wilder on January 15, 2021, 02:58:11 AM
Scandal!

https://twitter.com/fabriceduwelz/status/1349996692515528704

The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.

Quote from: Letterboxd user SYUpon hearing about the Academy Award nom for Greek director Giorgos Lanthimos and his 2009 commercial and critical darling Dogtooth, Arturo Ripstein, possibly the greatest Mexican filmmaker working today, reportedly considered sending him a message saying "I hope we win." Frankly, I wish he would have sent him that message and many more given how blatantly Lantihmos ripped off not only the premise but also a number of other key screenplay elements from Ripstein's masterful The Castle of Purity. I'm sure Lanthimos would have been less bold if Ripstein's film had been available on DVD from Criterion or was simply better known. Ripstein has nothing to worry though. Dogtooth is not going to remain with us for a very long time, and I imagine the same will hold true for its maker. On the other hand, The Castle of Purity and its director will only gain in stature with time, though I realize that it's been far too long already. Maybe he has to die first. I don't know. You can't invent context, whether it's social, cultural or political. Allegorically, Ripstein's film works much better on those levels given its setting and period. And it's a much more rounded film, spending as much time with the perpetrator as it does with the victims of hypocrisy and totalitarianism.

Whole movie is on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yoO12u4xQI), no subs.
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Post by: WorldForgot on January 15, 2021, 12:45:12 PM
Ahuevo! That'll be a sure-thing watch this weekend.
Title: Re: Yorgos Lanthimos
Post by: putneyswipe on January 16, 2021, 10:27:04 AM
You can't own a narrative. I noticed the movie pretty clearly took a lot of visual inspiration/ideas from a famous photographer named Lars Tunbjork, but that doesn't make me think less of it.
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Post by: jenkins on January 16, 2021, 11:32:12 AM
he just repping
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Post by: wilder on March 10, 2021, 07:15:07 PM
Emma Stone & Willem Dafoe Will Star In Yorgos Lanthimos' Postmodern Frankenstein-ish Tale 'Poor Things'
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Yorgos Lanthimos has found his next picture, and it will reunite him with "The Favorite" star Emma Stone. The film, "Poor Things" is an adaptation of the Alasdair Gray satirical novel for Searchlight Pictures and the U.K. Film4. "Poor Things" is a Frankenstein-esque Victorian tale of love, discovery, and scientific daring. The novel tells the incredible story of Belle Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by an eccentric but brilliant scientist.

QuoteOne of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things, is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional monster with Bella Baxter— a beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant. Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of Bella, but his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless's jealous love for Baxter's creation.

The hilarious tale of love and scandal that ensues would be "the whole story" in the hands of a lesser author (which, in fact, it is, for this account is actually written by Dr. McCandless). For Gray, though, this is only half the story, after which Bella (a.k.a. Victoria McCandless) has her own say in the matter. Satirizing the classic Victorian novel, Poor Things is a hilarious political allegory and a thought-provoking duel between the desires of men and the independence of women, from one of Scotland's most accomplished authors.

Early plot details said the Bella Baxter character was a pregnant woman who drowns herself to escape her abusive husband.
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Post by: wilder on July 30, 2022, 05:05:02 AM
Has a new 30 minute short film, Bleat, which premiered in May.


A black and white silent short film, set on the Greek Cycladic island of Tenos. A woman in black is mourning inside a simple house. Reality blends with dreamy imagination, and tradition with insidious desires.


Quote from: i-DBorne from a 2018 discussion, shot in early 2020, but only now seeing the light of day — and in very specific circumstances (more on that shortly) — Bleat is the product of Yorgos' collaboration with Neon, a Greek artistic non-profit, and the Greek National Opera. Yorgos was the guest here; what they made together forms a new chapter in Neon and the GNO's ongoing series that explores the relationship between visual art and opera, titled The Artist on the Composer.

The film is silent; when it first starts to play, you hear only the whirr of the projector kicking into gear. It's at this point that the collaboration comes full circle: we are watching it with the accompaniment of the Greek National Orchestra, who have strung together several compositions from classical and contemporary composers to capture the spirit of what's shown on screen. The two are in perfect symphony. Sparing string plucks and the groan of violins, oboes and flutes carry their interpretation of Toshio Hosokawa's "Singing Garden"; the eery, striking notes of a cimbalom re-enact the same composer's "Nachtmusik"; and then, a full-bodied, heaven-summoning choir deliver "Immortal Bach, op. 153": a Bach reimagining by Knut Nystedt.

The film and orchestra played for three nights over the weekend of 6-8 May, with three performances each night at the Stavros Niarchos Hall at the Greek National Opera. In total, that amounts to a few hundred shy of 12,000 witnessing Bleat; but the fascinating caveat comes with the manner in which it will always be presented.

It is Yorgos' desire that the film be seen this way and this way only: on film with an orchestral accompaniment. It's the direct antidote to the streaming era of moviemaking, he points out, in which films are — either instantly or, after a few months, primed and ready to be downsized to a small screen if need be. A version of Bleat like that does not and — Yorgos' stance willing — will not exist.

Quote from: FRIEZETypically for the filmmaker, the baroque music is playfully counterpointed by what's on screen. In Bleat, Stone plays another of Lanthimos's lonely, grieving weirdoes. Shot on the Island of Tinos, it begins at a funeral (her husband's, played by Bonnard). The era is unspecified: it could be a century ago, though anachronistic technologies hint otherwise. Stone's nameless character enjoys an intimate moment with a reproduction of the Madonna. She then reanimates her deceased husband by sitting on his face.

As a narrative, it's looser even than his other recent short, Nimic (2009), and, with no dialogue to contend with, has the feeling of an artist enjoying a different set of tools. 'I was inspired by a Greek documentary by [Takis] Kanellopoulos about wedding traditions in northern Greece and Macedonia,' he tells me. 'It's a remarkable film, absolutely beautiful, stunning.' Lanthimos filmed Bleat on Super 16 – black and white, warm and crackling – and insisted on analogue projection. While plans are in the works to tour the film, he is adamant that it only be viewed with all these trimmings.