Angelopoulos Retrospective: Days of ’36
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CADays of ’36 (Meres tou ’36) Greece, 1972 A political assassination kicks off Theo Angelopoulos’ portrait of one Greek dictatorship made under the shadow of another. This opening act of violence triggers a series of more ambiguous but equally ominous machinations—a prison escape, a hostage crisis, foreign powers conspiring over cocktails—with Angelopoulos emphasizing the atmosphere...