Demetrios Matheou
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- Bio
- Demetrios Matheou is the film critic for The Sunday Herald. His writing has appeared in The Guardian and Observer, The Times and Sunday Times, The Independent on Sunday and Sight & Sound. He is the author of The Faber Book of New South American Cinema, and a contributor to Cinema: The Whole Story and Ten Bad Dates With De Niro. He is also a film programmer and has served on the juries of a number of international film festivals.
Articles by Demetrios Matheou
These Shining Lives, Park Theatre
Thursday, 16 May 2013
North London has a splendid new theatre, The Park, whose £2.5 million existence – without a penny of government subsidy – is something of a miracle given our cash-strapped times. The building... Read more... |
The Hothouse, Trafalgar Studios
Friday, 10 May 2013
Throughout Harold Pinter’s The Hothouse, the characters of an ill-defined institution split hairs over the service it provides. Is it a rest home, a nursing home, a sanatorium? They may be kidding... Read more... |
Sundance London 2013: In Fear
Sunday, 28 April 2013
Many of us have felt the frustration mixed with nervousness, even fear as night has descended on a country walk, and we’re not quite sure where we are. And it's the sense of familiar foreboding that... Read more... |
Sundance London 2013: In A World...
Friday, 26 April 2013
“In a world…” How many times have we heard this portentous introduction to a movie trailer, in a reverberating baritone whose seriousness is in stark contrast to the epic fluff it seeks to promote.... Read more... |
The Look of Love
Thursday, 25 April 2013
It may not be Scorsese and De Niro, but the partnership between Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan has been extremely fruitful. It has given us Coogan’s sublime portrayal of legendary music... Read more... |
Sundance London 2013: Touchy Feely
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
I’ve always thought of Lynn Shelton as Sundance royalty. Her breakthrough film Humpday – the über-buddy movie with the amateur porn twist – screened at the festival, as did her follow-up, Your Sister... Read more... |
Canal Dreams: the Panama Film Festival
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Cannes, that irresistible feeding frenzy of film, is just around the corner. But 6,000 miles away in Panama City a film festival has just concluded that, for entirely different reasons, is equally... Read more... |
Theorem
Thursday, 11 April 2013
Terence Stamp has drolly recalled being over the moon when the Catholic church attacked Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema, in which he starred, on its release in 1968. “It was a very obscure movie – it... Read more... |
Game of Thrones, Series 3, Sky Atlantic
Tuesday, 02 April 2013
We hear ghastly, otherworldly shrieks and human screams over a black screen, which then fades to white and the sight of a man running for this life through a snowy wilderness. As he approaches a... Read more... |
Thursday Till Sunday
Monday, 01 April 2013
Latin Americans are the current masters of minimalist cinema, films in which nothing much seems to be happening on the surface, but a world of emotion and meaning bubbles beneath. Such films require... Read more... |
10 Questions for François Ozon
Monday, 25 March 2013
François Ozon is one of France’s most mercurial directors, his country’s equivalent, in some respects, to our own Michael Winterbottom – prolific, and constantly on the move between genres. He’s made... Read more... |
Neighbouring Sounds
Thursday, 21 March 2013
With the customarily narrow perspective that informs much film distribution in the UK, we might be forgiven for assuming there is just one subject in Brazilian cinema: crime; in particular, the drug-... Read more... |
Oscars 2013: Casting a vote for political films
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
An intriguing aspect of this year’s battle for Oscar was the early assurance with which pundits placed Lincoln as their favourite for best film. Steven Spielberg's frontrunner merits recognition;... Read more... |
10 Questions for Director Pablo Larraín
Monday, 04 February 2013
Often it takes a generation or two before a country can address its dark days on films; Hitler didn’t feature in a central role in a German film until Downfall, in 2004. This timorousness was... Read more... |
Old Times, Harold Pinter Theatre
Friday, 01 February 2013
This production of Old Times is a big deal. It’s the first of Harold Pinter’s plays to be performed in the theatre renamed after him; it marks the reunion of director Ian Rickson and Kristin Scott... Read more... |
Lincoln
Friday, 25 January 2013
A rum aspect of the Oscar nominations has been the inclusion of two films that concern American slavery, and which could not be more different: in Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino gives the... Read more... |
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