Merry X-mas! Even though this film must have been quite scary at the time. English movie version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ that is the earliest surviving adaptation of Dickens’ work on film.
Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat is considered to be the first motion picture in modern history. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the cafe in terror, fearing being run over by the “approaching” train.
Two minute overview covering montages conceived, designed and edited in-house paying tribute to Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Pierre Leaud (both pieces screened at the opening gala of Wellspring’s major Truffaut retrospective in the year 2000)…
Montages conceived, designed and edited in-house paying tribute to Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Pierre Leaud. Both pieces screened at the NYC opening gala of Wellspring’s major Truffaut retrospective.
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1999 Artists’ Fellowship – Film
George Spyros received a NYFA Fellowship for his work on the feature film Last Days of May.
Artist Statement:
The cinema is not primarily a visual medium, rather, it is a psychological realm where a complex
When her nasty aunt threatens to ruin the party, May does everything she can to keep the occasion joyous.
Mom’s sleepover guest gets a rude awakening. (1:45 minute excerpt)
A bar game leads to a battle of wills between mother and daughter. (2:50 minute excerpt)
Written and directed by George Spyros, this independent feature received a New York State Council on the Arts grant as well as the Screen Actors Guild Best Actress Award at the 1999 American Film Institute Film Festival. In the same year, Spyros received the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for the film.
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George Spyros’s feature film Last Days of May was awarded a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). The funds will go to complete the post-production of the film.
NYSCA Mission
The New York State
Montages conceived, designed and edited in-house paying tribute to Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Pierre Leaud. Both pieces screened at the NYC opening gala of Wellspring’s major Truffaut retrospective.
