In 1895 the Berlin Theatre Wintergarten hosted an early cinematic presence in front of an audience, by brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky. They used an invention of their own, the Bioscope…

On February 13, 1894, the French brothers Auguste and Luis Lumière (Auguste and Louis Lumier) invented cinema, a machine for making, projecting and printing the film. Although the beginning of the creation of films is indeterminate, the public screening of ten short films by the Lumière brothers, on 28 December 1895 in Paris, is undoubtedly

The Chania Film Festival bids farewell to the important writer Vassilis Alexakis. The award-winning Greek-French writer passed away after a long battle with cancer at the age of 77. He studied journalism in Paris and dealt with film issues in major magazines, such as Paris Match . As a writer he was prolific, writing his

The special relationship of Giorgis Manousakis with the Cinema began to become visible during the writing of the book “From Chania to Hollywood”, the Chania Film Festival and the Publications Compass of the City. In the context of the research on the Cinemas of Chania, the testimony that his father, Vassilis Manousakis, had attempted to

A Cinematic Masterpiece! “The Four Hundred Blows” is the first film by the great French director François Truffaut and one of the first films of Nouvelle Vague, the French New Wave. The screenplay was written by Francois Truffaut and Marcel Moussy. An excellent film that fully supports the principle that Cinema Is Art and bears

NIKOS XYLOURIS (1936 – 1980). “THE ARCHANGEL OF CRETE” Today, on February 8, 1980, Nikos Xylouris left us. On the occasion of the anniversary of his death, the Chania Film Festival remembers the film documentary, “The songs of fire”. The documentary “The Songs of Fire” by Nikos Koundouros, records the climate that prevailed in Athens

When in 1944 America “filmed” “The negro soldier” it needed soldiers for the war. It took more than 70 years for her to search for her soul and realize that her steps through time were engraved by whites and blacks together… It took more than 70 years to get to the “I Am not your

Classic French films include the War of the Buttons, directed by Yves Robert/ Yves Robert. The film was shot in 1962 and the protagonists were young children. Based on the novel of the same name by Louis Pergo, a brilliant children’s film was made in 1962, which brings the world of children to the screen

I’ll met by moon light/ 1957 The film is based on the autobiographical book “Wartime Diary in Crete of” by the British soldier, traveler and writer, W. Stanley Moss. The scenario concerns the operation that was set up in Crete, during the Second World War, for the arrest of the German general, Heinrich Kreipe. It

The greatest actor of the 20th century Marlon Brando, according to the American Film Institute, ranks fourth in the list with the biggest Stars of cinema, among the male actors who first appeared on the big screen before 1950. He was one of the six actors who were included in 1999, by the American magazine

The 33rd Academy of Cinema Awards for the 1960s films was held in Santa Monica on April 17, 1961. For the first time in the history of the institution, he was awarded in the category of original singing, a foreign language. It is “The Children of Piraeus” by Manos Hadjidakis, performed uniquely by Melina Mercouri,

“Blue Angel” was the -really- first, complete, talking film that was shot in Germany. The mythical film of the interwar period was directed by Josef Von Sternberg, who also signed the script together with the dramatist Carl Zuckmayer, an adaptation of the novel “Professor Unrat”, written by Heinrich Mann, in 1905. The classic work of