Perhaps the best
film featuring Greek American characters ever made has gone virtually unknown for more than four decades.
Not exact matches
Here's three new movie stills
featuring The Rock in the upcoming
film «Faster» by director George Tillman Jr. (Notorious, Soul Food) and starring Dwayne Johnson (The Fast and the Furious 5, The Other Guys), Tom Berenger (Inception, Silent Venom), Carla Gugino (Race to Witch Mountain, Watchmen), Micaela Johnson (Transformers 3,
Greek), Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter, Quarantine), Billy Bob Thornton, Moon Bloodgood and Maggie Grace (Knight and Day).
Extras: Audio commentaries for both
films by Spaghetti Western experts C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke; «They Called Him Ringo,» an archival featurette with star Giuliano Gemma; «A Western
Greek Tragedy,» an archival featurette with Lorella de Luca and camera operator Sergio D'Offizi; original trailers; gallery of original promotional images; reversible sleeve
featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx.
But the
feature by
Greek - born filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos found new life with A24, which opened the
film this weekend in four New York and L.A. theaters to a savory start.
Bonus materials on the unrated Blu - ray release include audio commentaries for both
films by spaghetti Western experts; They Called Him Ringo, an archival featurette with star Giuliano Gemma; A Western
Greek Tragedy, an archival featurette with Lorella de Luca and camera operator Sergio D'Offizi; Revisiting Ringo, a new video interview with critic and Ringo fan Tony Rayns; gallery of original promotional images; and reversible sleeve
featuring original and newly commissioned artwork.
The program includes a performance of Litany, which
features Ms. Raissnia's
film loops with live musical accompaniment on homemade instruments by
Greek - born artist Panagiotis Mavridis, who is a frequent collaborator.
The exhibition also
features a
film, Liquid Assets, that Gersht created especially for this MFA exhibition, taking as his starting point an ancient
Greek coin from the collection.