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

David Lynch cast Naomi Watts, who was ready to give up acting, as a blonde who arrives in LA certain she’ll be a star, in what was meant to be a pilot for ABC. Luckily the network turned it down, and the dreamlike, unsettling Hollywood nightmare it became now has cult status. — The only survivor of a car crash on a road outside Los Angeles walks away from the wreck with no memory of who she is. She takes shelter in an empty flat, and that’s where Betty finds her, fresh from Canada and sure she’s about to become an actress. Together the two women set out to discover who this stranger is, and who she used to be. — Nomination for Best Director | Oscars | 2002 Nomination for Best FIlm | Golden Globes | 2002 Best Editing | BAFTA | 2002 Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 2001

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. — 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. — Official Selection | Berlin Film Festival | 2014 Hellenic Association of Film Critics Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2014 Bes Actor (Vangelis Mourikis) | Hellenic Film Academy | 2015

This is the cult film of the 1990s that everyone should know, and Mathieu Kassovitz began writing it on the day a seventeen-year-old was shot during a police interrogation in Paris. Three friends, energy that bursts off the screen, and Vincent Cassel waving a gun around. — The morning after a night of rioting in the Paris suburbs finds Vinz, Hubert and Saïd with nothing to do and nowhere to go. A friend of theirs is lying in hospital in a coma after the police beat him the night before. It’s going to be a long day, and the three of them will make the most of every hour. — Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 1995 Best Film | César Awards | 1996 Best European Film | European Film Awards | 1996

Truffaut was still a boy when his own father handed him over to the police, and years later that memory became a film. Jean-Pierre Léaud, cast in the lead, never memorised his lines but spoke in his own words. Blow after blow, you feel how cruel childhood can be. — Antoine Doinel makes his first appearance as an unruly boy growing up in a cramped Paris flat with a family that doesn’t understand him. He skips school, steals and suffers under a teacher who has it in for him, until an arrest lands him in a cell overnight with prostitutes and thieves. The court sends him to a reform school, but Antoine escapes, in search of freedom. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1959 Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 1959 OCIC Award | Cannes Film Festival | 1959

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. — 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. — Official Selection - International Competition | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2006

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. — 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.