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 ...

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, ...

“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 ...