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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KIKKA!
The singer Kirsi Sirén, better known as Kikka, lived a short life steeped in substances, and died of a heart... View Article
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LEONORA ADDIO
One of Paolo (in Sodankylä in 2000) and Vittorio Taviani’s most notable directorial works, Chaos (1984), was based on the... 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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LOVE AFFAIR(S)
In the beginning, everything looks simple. There’s Daphne, three months pregnant; there’s Maxime, her boyfriend François’s cousin; and there’s a... View Article
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LYNX MAN
The complex human-animal relationship can be depicted as a continuum of utilisation, with merciless slaughter and exploitation in one end... 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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MEGAS
Sigurþór Hallbjörnsson, aka Spessi (300 Accordions, 2003; Horse with No Name, 2012), found fame as a photographer but has also... View Article
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MICHAEL CIMINO, UN MIRAGE AMÉRICAIN
The seven films of Michael Cimino, one of the most uncompromising directors of New Hollywood, have left an indelible mark... View Article
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