The Worthless
The Worthless breathed new life into Finnish cinema, broke the mould and shattered perceptions that had become ossified into realism.... View Article
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The Tale of Tales / Cancelled
Yuri Norstein’s animation exudes a concentrated feeling, progressing in gentle bursts of images and flashes of a time that may... View Article
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The Lovers on the Bridge
In Les amants du Pont-Neuf, two rebellious outcasts – Alex (Denis Lavant), an addict dreaming of a circus career and... View Article
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The Mercenary Soldier
Beginning with a sequence that challenges even the unforgettable opening of Touch of Evil (1958), Anssi Mänttäri’s The Mercenary Soldier... View Article
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The Last Day of Summer
They have no names. They are the only people on the windy beach of an anonymous Baltic Sea resort town... View Article
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The French Connection
In this hectic example of the hard-boiled cop movies of the 70s, two streetwise New York detectives with ethically ambiguous... View Article
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Sun and Shadow
People’s Bulgaria with its Black Sea beaches was besides YSFR Croatia the busiest summer tourism nation of the so-called Eastern... View Article
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Stop Making Sense
This karaoke sing-along film – a beloved festival tradition – turns the festival tent into a funk gospel church with... View Article
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Some Interviews on Personal Matters
Some Interviews on Personal Matters, which in Finland has only been shown in special screenings, is a great sample of... View Article
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One Sings, the Other Doesn’t
Agnès Varda’s joyous political manifesto One Sings, the Other Doesn’t was released in 1977, two years after abortion was legalised... View Article
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