"Analysing images is my secret". Known for the cinematic references in his songs, LΕΧ's discography has included De Niro and Jarmusch, François Truffaut, anime and Economides. On the occasion of the release of "G.T.K." we've compiled here some of the films we came across in his lyrics. 

"At heart we all live inside films": film in LEX's music

Normal

A riddle of identities, a satire of the entertainment world or simply a dream journey like no other, David Lynch's masterpiece changes, transforms and hypnotizes, certain that truth is only found in dreams.

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A dark-haired woman gets amnesia after a car accident. She wanders the streets of Los Angeles before taking refuge in an apartment. There she is discovered by Betty, a blonde woman from the Midwest who has come to the City of Angels seeking fame as an actress. Together, the two try to solve the mystery of Rita's true identity in a dreamy Los Angeles, untroubled by traffic jams or smog.

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Nomination for Best Director | Oscars | 2002
Nomination for Best FIlm | Golden Globes | 2002
Best Editing | BAFTA | 2002
Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 2001

Mulholland Drive

Does the big fish eat the little fish? Beyond its viral quotes and cult status, Economides' most mature and daring creative moment is a modern Greek film noir that claimed the Golden Bear at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival.

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Stratos works the night shift at a bakery while performing death contracts. He uses the money to arrange Leonidas' escape from prison, wanting to repay his debt to the man to whom he owes his life.

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Official Selection | Berlin Film Festival | 2014
Hellenic Association of Film Critics Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2014
Bes Actor (Vangelis Mourikis) | Hellenic Film Academy | 2015

Stratos

Mathieu Kasovitz's iconic film, which for the first time turned its gaze to the margins of the French capital, was awarded for its direction at the Cannes Film Festival and became a reference point for an entire youth culture that to this day finds its voice in it. Thirty years after its first screening, it remains resoundingly relevant.

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After a chaotic night of riots in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around idly waiting for news of the health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured in a confrontation with the police.

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Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 1995
Best Film | César Awards | 1996
Best European Film | European Film Awards | 1996

Hate

Globalization, consumerism, and the dead ends of modern lifestyle enter the mixer of an explosive satire and produce a vitriolic yet unbearably entertaining film that ranks among the best moments in John Carpenter's career.

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A worker from Los Angeles accidentally finds a pair of special glasses on the street that were probably never meant to come into his hands. Wearing them, he can see the subliminal messages behind every billboard or government announcement that nurture a world of people who stop thinking. Soon, he discovers a group of aliens behind this plan and takes it upon himself to awaken humanity.

They Live

Truffaut created a film that wasn’t just a breakthrough in the context of the Nouvelle Vague, but a real milestone in the history of cinema. It explores the cruelty of youth and administers “blows” of pure cinema exhilaration that leave you wanting more.

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We meet Antoine Doinel for the first time, an unruly boy growing up in Paris in 1950, playing truant and stealing. His teacher torments him and his family doesn’t understand him. After getting arrested, he spends a night in a cell. The court decides to send him to a juvenile reformatory, where a psychologist assesses the reasons why he is unhappy. One day, during football practice, Antoine escapes by jumping over the fence; he runs to the ocean, a place he always wanted to visit.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1959
Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 1959
OCIC Award | Cannes Film Festival | 1959

The 400 Blows

Troubled in its time by the distribution circuit, extremely but unexpectedly pop after years, "Soul Kicking" was the film that showed even more than the others that Economides could create his own unique universe, a cinema that would be hard to find its counterpart in Greece.

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Takis is a middle-aged craft worker, divorced, remarried and with a newborn baby. With pressures from everywhere. No one leaves him alone. His wife, his employer, his relatives, his friends. Violence and oppression. Verbal, mental, physical. All against one and God against all. The lit fuse is several yards from the gunpowder. But in the end it reaches it.

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Official Selection - International Competition | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2006

Soul Kicking

George Romero directs one of the most classic thrillers of all times, a profound sociopolitical allegory that defined the horror and zombie film genre, and set the standard for everything that was to come.

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The dead come back to life and attack the living. A young woman along with other survivors barricade themselves in a remote house in order to escape the fury of the carnivorous living dead. 7 persons, one house, countless zombies. In order to survive, the living will have to work together.