ATHENS Cheap S'well 17oz Silver Lining Traveler , Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Greece honors this week Theodoros Angelopoulos, one of its greatest filmmakers who was acclaimed worldwide, two years after his death with a series of special screenings of his plays.
Syntagma Square in central Athens transformed into a large cinema screen for Theodoros Angelopoulos' documentary ""Athens, Return to the Acropolis"" on Friday night at the launch of the events which run to January 29.
The City of Athens symphony orchestra opened the ceremony with songs of late Greek Academy award winner Manos Hadjidakis from the film, while his family -his wife and three daughters- his friends and a bid audience gathered to pay tribute to the ""poet of cinema"".
""It's a symbolic gesture to play his movie here, between the Ministry of Finance and the Greek Parliament, this significant time where we all know what happens around us. This film gives a note of optimism through the eyes of a creator who showed us a different path and way of thinking"", Phoebe Economopoulou Cheap S'well Bottles 17oz Stone Pink Topaz , widow of Theo Angelopoulos stated during her speech.
Angelopoulos, had won awards in film festivals in Cannes, Berlin, Venice and across the world for his work over four decades for several of his films such as ""Eternity and a Day"", ""Alexander the Great"", ""Ulysses' Gaze"" and ""Landscape in the Mist"".
His style was characterized by slow, long takes, poetic scenes and great sensitivity.
He died on January 24 Cheap S'well Bottles 17oz Infrared Spectrum , 2012, after being hit by a motorcycle while shooting his latest film, The Other Sea in Athens which was focused on the debt crisis in Greece.
""We celebrate, remember and feel sad at the same time for the tragic death of Theo Angelopoulos, one of the most influential filmmakers and one of the most important intellectuals in Greece"", Maria Komninou, Professor and General Secretariat of the Greek Film Archive told Xinhua.
Greece honors the memory of the movie director with a series of special screenings of his complete body of work through the eyes of the young organized by the Greek Film Archive. It's a retrospective to his masterpieces, introduced by musicians Cheap S'well 17oz Moonstone Traveler Satin , young directors and poets, as well as university students.
""We believe that his movies inspire everyone, from China to Latin America. We are very happy to present his work, as we believe it has to offer a lot of things to the young people"", Komninou added.
Yorgos Zois, a young scriptwriter and film director, who has been awarded for his second short film, ""Titloi Telous"" (Out of Frame) Cheap S'well Bottles 17oz Bikini Pink with Silver Cap Satin , with the Best European short film premiered at Venice 2012, explained to Xinhua this weekend before his introduction to one of Angelopoulos' films during the festival how his cinema affects the young nowadays.
""With the first movies of Angelopoulos I discovered a whole new cinema, completely different from the one I knew till then. This experience was amazing. As a new director, there are a lot of things to notice through his films. They are very pioneering for their time. Personally, I find many points that match between his movies and the scripts I write. A few weeks ago I couldn't go on with my screenplay and I felt the need to watch his film, ""The Hunters"", he said.
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Mount. Sinabung of 2,475 meters erupted Monday morning, unleashing a column of ash about 8,000 meter high, the biggest eruption since the volcano first rumbled back to life in September after being dormant for three years, said Agus Budianto, head of volcano observation at volcanology agency. ""This is the biggest eruption in vertical since September,"" he told Xinhua over phone.
Indonesian Transport Ministry Spokesman Bambang Ervan said that the volcanic ash was found by up to 25,000 meter high into the air that endangers flights. ""This (Monday) morning, we issued a warning to flights to avoid the air routes so called W11, W12, L774 and R456 near Sinabung volcano,""he told Xinhua.
The spokesman said that the routes were commonly passed by international and domestic flights, such as the flight from Australia.
Over 6,000 people have been displaced since the beginning of this month as Mount Sinabung erupted intermittently.
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The 2,911 meter high Mount Merapi's most violent eruption occurred in 2010 that killed about 350 people and displaced thousands others.
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