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The fourth and final headline act for the sold-out Green Man Festival 2023 has been revealed - find out who it is.

ATHENS - Reluctant, indifferent and even hostile to the idea of letting Hollywood and foreign filmmakers use sites in the country as a backdrop for their movies, Greece is now embracing the idea and luring big names. They’re joining the Weird Wave of Greek directors shooting more films in their h

From stifling sets to cold dialogue, here's how artificiality informs the work of Yorgos Lanthimos, especially 'A Killing of a Sacred Deer.'

Sodium streetlights buzz. Antennas hum. Insects chirrup — or is that the bleeping of...

How to Embrace Your Inner Weirdo Weird Waves goes searching for eternal gromhood in Southern California -- and finds it! Surfline Link copied to clipboard Backwash bizarreness in Carlsbad with Jackson Butler and a gaggle of groms. Reckless rock dodging in the OC with Parker Cohn and friends. Joining a supercharged peanut gallery before seeking the world’s smallest tube in Del Mar with Ronnie, Rusty, Chris and Mike. It’s all here, and it’s all weird. And yes, in case you were wondering, Jo...

Apples: A memorably weird Greek fable about amnesia Bleak, deceptively rich comedy about what happens when identity is stripped away Genre: Drama In a recent interview Christos Nikou sought to put some distance between his debut feature and emanations of the Greek “weird wave” such as Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth and Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg. One thinks of those heavy metal bands that used to occasionally argue that they were only obliquely connected to the genre. “Iron Axe a...

Aris Servetalis in Christos Nikous unsettling directorial debut, Apples Credit: Bartosz Swiniarski Dir: Christos Nikou. Starring: Aris Servetalis, Sofia Georgovassili, Anna Kalaitzidou, Argyris Bakirtzis, Kostas Laskos. 12A cert, 91 mins “The Greek Weird Wave” is the favoured catch-all term for the country’s arthouse offerings, thanks to a series of films that apply a zonked aesthetic to their far-out conceits. In the process, humanity is usually made to look lost and sad. It all started ...

In addition to the films, keep an eye out for special virtual presentations with Almodóvar, Oscar contender Riz Ahmed, and recent Golden Globe winner Andra Day. And dont sleep on getting a ticket to one of the festival’s best additions in recent years, the Knight Heroes talk. This year’s series focuses on four accomplished female filmmakers in conversation: Radha Blank, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Adele Romanski, and Amy Seimetz. But, of course, this is a film festival, after all. So here are...