It’s not surprising that Constantin Costa-Gavras has seized on the story of an SS officer turned “good German” for his latest film, Amen. The nominal bad guy as unlikely hero is a recurrent motif in ...

The French-Algerian production was the first movie to be nominated for both best picture and foreign-language film. By Julian Sancton Senior Features Editor “Any resemblance to real events and dead or ...

The late 1960s was a tumultuous, fear-filled era, and the Costa-Gavras film "Z" (1969) - recently released by the Criterion Collection - plays like a dispatch from the front lines. Based on the Greek ...

Costa-Gavras may have invented the modern political thriller, but like so many great inventions it was largely a question of accident and expediency. When he shot “Z” in 1968, the director born in ...

Back in 1970, Costa-Gavras’ torn-from-the-headlines political thriller, Z, about the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis, made such an impression in the U.S. that it became only the ...

Costa-Gavras joins us for the hour to discuss a nearly 50-year career that has earned him the reputation as one of the world’s greatest living political filmmakers. Born in Greece in 1933, the 80-year ...

Costa-Gavras, the acclaimed director of 'Z', 'Missing' and 'Music Box,' will receive the 2019 Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award at the 76th Venice International Film Festival, where his ...

Constantin Costa-Gavras’$2 1969 classic Z (Rialto Pictures), just rereleased in a snappy new 35 mm print for its 40 th anniversary, is as bold, jagged, and modern as its one-letter title. No one, ...

The Associated Press on Thursday withdrew a report that Oscar-winning writer-director Costa-Gavras had died at age 85, saying that its story was based on a tweet from “a fake account” it incorrectly ...

Costa-Gavras, the Greek-born France-based director of some of the most famed movies of political cinema, from 1969’s “Z” to 1981’s “Missing,” will receive a career achievement Donostia Award at this ...

Even at 80, Costa-Gavras is fighting the good fight. The Greek-born, naturalized French writer-director best known for his politically charged films such as 1969’s Oscar-winning “Z” and 1982’s ...

“Any resemblance to real events and dead or living people is not a coincidence. It is INTENTIONAL.” So reads a title card at the beginning of Costa-Gavras’ Z, set in an unnamed Mediterranean country ...