This adaptation of Colin MacInnes' 1959 novel about London's jazz circles and its burgeoning rock scene was a critical and commercial failure upon release, but Julien Temple's fascinating and exquisitely colourful musical has gained momentum during later years.
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Robert J. Flaherty is considered the father of documentary cinema, but he is also the great grandfather of Finnish experimental filmmaker Sami van Ingen.
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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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Jacques Demy's '80s magnum opus continues in the genre of sung-through musical familiar from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964).
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Bresson's earliest “official” Dostoevsky adaptation – of the short story A Gentle Creature (Krotkaya, 1876) – transposes the setting of the St Petersburg story to Paris in the late 1960s.
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In the midst of the folk music renaissance of 1960’s America, a mysterious young drifter arrives in town.
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Pirkko and Taina, two sisters from Sysmä, have continued the traditional craft of brewing the sahti farmhouse ale under the... View Article
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