This director is starting to feel like a gimmick to me.  I enjoyed Dogtooth, but only because i saw it well before the hype and had close to zero expectations. Alps was much like Dogtooth, only nowhere near as good.

This director is starting to feel like a gimmick to me.  I enjoyed Dogtooth, but only because i saw it well before the hype and had close to zero expectations. Alps was much like Dogtooth, only nowhere near as good.

Btw, i also recognise that there are American film goers who probably were interested in seeing his films, but they just weren't available to them. But the generalisation stands. Even Tobias said that his film making style was 'out of step' by the time Eternity came out.

Kayne West is a pop star, not a rapper.  HIs rhymes are grade school at best. and most of the things he gets credit for are arranged by outsiders anyway, such as his cliched and corny use of orchestration on albums such as 'Late Registration'.

It's pretty obvious why Theo is generally ignored by American critics and film goers. He deals with the problem of history, and suffocating weight of the past on the present, and this is not what interests indie/arthouse film goers in the U.S, esp since Angelopoulos never had a film released properly in America until…

This is the kind of movie that Fincher would have made if he was a real cinephile and not a flashy video clip director faking the funk  ;-)