Panssarilaiva Potjomkin
Battleship Potemkin has equally been regarded as the mother of all propaganda films and a masterful depiction of how the... View Article
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McCabe and Mrs Miller
Following critic Robin Wood’s theory on Robert Altman, protagonist John McCabe (Warren Beatty) embarks on an endeavour that he thinks he can control.
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Made in Germany
Germany, 1945. Life goes on in the partly French, partly US-American occupied Allgäu. People eg. want to watch films, now... View Article
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Katya’s Autumn
In 1984 Aki Kaurismäki wrote: ”Mänttäri’s films have the troublesome effect of gnawing at us, sneering at us from behind... View Article
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Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
In 1976 Joe Strummer (1952-2002) founded The Clash, one of the leading bands of the British punk movement. Before his tragic early death, the rock legend began working with Julien Temple on a biopic that would be released five years after his passing.
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Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema
Cinema Wolność (= Liberty) is a rather ordinary movie hall where unremarkable movies like Jutrzenka get shown. But one fine... View Article
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Greed
Erich von Stroheim's Greed is probably, along with Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), the most famous mutilated masterpiece in the history of cinema, an epic exploration of human nature that has been slashed from its original length of over nine hours to its current running time.
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At the Rovaniemi Fair
This ”monument of 1950’s Finnish Cinema” (according to Kari Uusitalo) turned a whole new page in the history of our... View Article
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Calamari Union
Roughly fifteen Franks and one Pekka (Markku Toikka) want to escape their back-breaking living conditions in the working-class neighbourhood of Kallio and based on their parents' stories decide to head towards the fabled district of Eira.
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