Topic: Aki Kaurismaki
Two films that won prizes at last year's Cannes Film Festival -- the French-language dramatic comedy 'Le Havre' and the Turkish drama 'Once Upon a...
Tweet Share close Digg Stumble Upon Fark Reddit Share Email Print For the past 20-plus years, Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki has cultivated a...
Aki Kaurismaki's Le Havre is the favorite to sweep Finland's top film honors, the Jussi awards, after the French-language drama received nine...
When asked about the best way to approach the New York Film Festival, Program Director Richard Peña delivers two words of advice: "Get lost."....
Figuring out the trends at TIFF is a bit like delivering a weather report from the edge of a hurricane. Picture the critic clinging horizontally to...
Calamari Union is an experimental Finnish film written and directed by Aki Kaurismaki . "Calamari Union is itself a chaotic mix of Mean Streets and The Marx Brothers . In appropriately seedy black and white, Mr. Kaurismaki takes over the American gangster film and ...
Locking his mother in a closet and taking best friend Reino along with him, he decides to go on a road trip, fuelled by coffee (for Valto), alcohol (for Reino) and presumably petrol (for the car). The women obviously think they've ...
Nikander is a garbage collector who, although not happy with the way his life is going, has accepted that that is his lot. Nikander gets horribly drunk and wakes up the next day in a police cell, along with Melartin, who ends ...
At the end of the 20th century, the notion of national cinemas had become problematic in many of the traditional film cultures of western Europe. In France, cinema remained at the forefront of cultural and intellectual life, and French film and television ...
Give a DVD for a gift and the present might seem a little thin. Janus Films introduced American audiences to the pleasures of Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, and Francois Truffaut. The Adventures of Antoine DoinelIf you fall in love with a character ...
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Aki Kaurismaki - Interview 1990
From cult French TV show "Cinema Cinemas".2008-10-07 -
Aki Kaurismäki - Ariel - Mikkonen's Death ...
This is a clip from Arial, one of Kaurismäki's ...2009-05-09 -
Aki Kaurismäki's Saddest Moment - Drifting ...
A scene from Aki Kaurismäki's masterpiece, Drifting Clouds (Kauas ...2009-04-10
