<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">Introducing the Hellenic Film Society</SPAN></FONT><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;"><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>We hope to show Greek language or Greek themed films approximately every 2 to 3 weeks during this coming Spring semester. Films will be shown on Thursday nights at 8 pm in the Silliman movie theater. </DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6">C<SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">ome see the classic </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><I>Stella </I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">(1955) t</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">his Thursday, January 24th </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">(Go to Silliman College Entryway C </SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">early</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> for access. Movie starts promptly at 8 pm)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><I><B><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Stella</B> </I>(1955)<I> </I>will be the first film in a 3 part series honoring Melina Mercouri. In <I>Stella,</I> her debut film, Mercouri stars as a free spirited rembetika singer who continually rejects the marriage proposals of her true love, Miltos. Directed by the Greek Cypriot Michael Cacoyannis and written by Cacoyannis and Iakovos Kabanellis. Music composed by Manos Hadjidakis and Vassilis Tsitsanis.</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to contact me at <A href="mailto:niki.stellings-hertzberg@yale.edu">niki.stellings-hertzberg@yale.edu</A> . I hope to see many of you on Thursday, and of course you are welcome (and encouraged) to bring friends.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;">Forthcoming films with actual dates to be announced include:</DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -24px;"><B><I> <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Never on Sunday</I></B> (1960): In the port of Piraeus, Homer, an uptight American writer/tourist (played by director Jules Dassin), sets out to tame Ilya (Mercouri), a fun-loving prostitute and to steer her onto the path of morality. Mercouri’s portrayal earned her the Cannes Best Actress award and an Oscar nomination, while Manos Hadjidakis was awarded an Oscar for the theme song he composed for this film.<FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -24px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B><I><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Phaedra</I></B> (1962): In this modern adaptation of Euripides’ Hippolytus, Mercouri plays Phaedra, the second wife of the shipping tycoon Thanos (Ralf Vallone), who falls in a doomed love with her husband’s son from his first wife, Alexis (Anthony Perkins). Directed by Jules Dassin with music by Mikis Theodorakis. </DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -24px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -24px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -24px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 48px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 48px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 48px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>