{mosimage}One more year, the Helsinki International Film Festival Rakkautta ja Anarkiaa (Love and Anarchy) it is a compulsory destination for lovers of good cinema. The offer this year is astonishingly […]
It’s film time!
A typical Finnish weather welcomes the guests of this year’s Tampere Film Festival. But the festival offers a way to escape cold and snow and to travel to exotic places. […]
And the Jussi goes to…
{sidebar id=46}Musta jää (Black Ice) has won the Jussi for Best Film of 2007. The film directed and written by Petri Kotwica managed to collect six of the 15 […]
Finnwoodland
{mosimage} One hundred years back saw the light the very first Finnish produced movie: Salaviinanpolttajat (Bootleggers) by Louis Sparre and Teuvo Puro. Little is known about this film because not […]
Tempting dark power
{mosimage}Stan Lee (who makes a cameo again in this third part) and Steve Ditko created in 1962 a new superhero that after the past of decades has been even able […]
The punk that died as a hippie
{mosimage}Five years ago, Joe Strummer, the leader of The Clash, died unexpectedly aged 50, victim of an undiagnosed congenital heart disease. He descended to the hell of punk after the […]
A helluva life
{mosimage}For the last couple of weeks I have been hooked with the autobiography of the American writer and filmmaker Samuel Fuller. It reads like a novel. A Third Face: My […]
Love, Cinema and Anarchy
{mosimage} Watch out if you walk around the Finnish capital on September 20th – 30th! Riots of crazy cinema lovers are expected to take the most important theatres and fight […]
Open source European animation
{mosimage} Elephants and animation films seem to be extremely linked in the past recent times. Just last year, Norwegian director Christopher Nielsen surprised us with the irreverent and not much […]
Children of Men
{mosimage}Alfonso Cuarón belongs to the new generation of Mexican directors that keep conquering the Hollywood cinema industry, at the same level than those other two greatest representatives of this new […]
Cinema bathed by the midnight sunlight
Sodankylä is the lucky place where the Midnight Sun Film Festival is held. The 22nd festival once again presents a great selection of films and filmmakers and is perhaps the […]
The spider is back
Maybe many of you did not know that before this original appearance, Stan Lee dismissed the design for Spider-man that Jack Kirby initially drew. In this first design, that was […]
A film (finally) exposed
Louhimies is the most acclaimed director inside Finnish borders in recent times and, with only five films, he has achieved a great reputation and, more importantly, captured a personal style […]
…And justice for all
Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, Robert Altman and Cecil B. DeMille are some of the film directors who never won the Best Director Academy Award, and it seemed Martin […]
The camera keeps on rolling
Born in Lithuania, but exiled to America in 1949 after spending some time in a displaced persons camp, the life of Jonas Mekas is all about films. He is considered […]