MON ONCLE
Jacques Tati’s first color film Mon oncle (1958) was a great success, winning both the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival as well as the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Foreign language... View Article
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MONDAY OR TUESDAY
Monday or Tuesday is not the first time that Vatroslav Mimica is experimenting with a stream of consciousness narrative –... View Article
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MAURICE
Although the novel Maurice by the British author E.M. Forster was not published until 1979, a year after the author’s... View Article
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LOST HIGHWAY
“Dick Laurent is dead.” These words mark the beginning of an iconically enigmatic trip that, all the way from the... View Article
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INGEBORG HOLM
The Midnight Sun Film Festival’s prime spot this year is reserved for the screening of Victor Sjöström’s (1879-1960) Ingeborg Holm... View Article
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INVENTION FOR DESTRUCTION
Invention for Destruction—thought to be the most successful of all Czech films—is also one of the most visually inventive movies... View Article
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HAPPINESS COMES AT NINE O’CLOCK
Nikola Tanhofer’s Happiness Comes at Nine o’Clock holds a unique place in Croatian film history as such, for it is... View Article
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FILM CONCERT BY MAUSTETYTÖT: THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL
In The Match Factory Girl, lonely Iris Rukka, unforgettably played by Kati Outinen, experiences the Nordic chill in not just... View Article
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BIS SPÄTER, ICH MUß MICH ERSCHIEßEN
Premiered on 16 March 1984, the German-Finnish collaboration Bis später, ich muß mich erschießen is an interesting outlier in the... View Article
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BURRBALL
Over fifty years after its release, Burrball (Takiaispallo), directed by Veli-Matti Saikkonen and written by Kerttu-Kaarina Suosalmi, still feels modern. Some details or attitudes... View Article
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