The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Know your Bill Murray from your Buster Keaton? This week, Pinkos smacks his lips and delivers a tray of bone-dry comic amuse-bouches for you to sample I like my comedy the way I like my sherry and my bathroom floor – dry. In fact, the greater the understatement, the finer the blend, the deader the pan, the more eagerly I lap it up. A straight-faced, down the line, mockumentary mickey take as...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Film Reviews: An entertainingly horrific vision of the Oedipus complex in action.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
DVD Video Review: An amnesiac man tried to rebuild his life in Aki Kaurismäki's wonderfully absurd but touching 2002 comedy drama. Noel Megahey reviews the ICA Projects DVD release.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
"You, the Living," Roy Andersson's deadpan Swedish movie, recalls the dry wit of Jacques Tati and Aki Kaurismäki. Sometimes a musical, sometimes an exploration of ritualistic behavior, it's essentially indescribable — and can be quite funny.
The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
The Leningrad Cowboys are a Ukranian ensemble with a heavy balalaika influence to their repertoire. Their manager Vladimir (Matti Pellonpaa) - a man who gives orders in brusque fashion and wears a fur coat so big it looks like the fucking Yeti gave its life for it - gets them an audience with a producer. The verdict: the Leningrad Cowboys suck. So much, in fact, that the producer's best advice is that...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
Rating: 31/2 stars (good-excellent) If you locked Michael "Transformers" Bay in a room with Swedish director Roy Andersson, one of them wouldn't make it out alive. Best known internationally for a series of droll, single-take television commercials (they're all over YouTube) and the 2000 feature-length mosaic "Songs From the Second Floor," Andersson favors a static camera and a...
Helsinki According to PPusa (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
On Saturday the last event of Helsinki International Airshow was the concert of Finnish cult band Leningrad Cowboys with the (Russian) Red Army Air Force Choir. Many Russian and rock classics were heard including The Beatles hit Back in the U.S.S.R. In 1993 Leningrad Cowboys together with the 160 member strong (Russian) Red Army Ensemble attracted [...]
Art reviw Alex Stalenbertg (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
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Westminster Wisdom (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
Hamlet's father slumps over onto his desk, poisoned by his friend Klaus. Hamlet walks in, eating a massive slice of ham. Boorishly, he chuckles at the man he deems to be sleeping and then casts a rug over his shoulder. Aki Kaurismaki's film about Hamlet introduces him as a nonentity who does not realise his own place in the plot- and he continues to film Hamlet in such a way, shading in with his crayons...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
NDTV Lumière and Sweet Nirvana present ‘Comedies In August’ as part of ‘Carlsberg World Cinema Sundays’. This Sunday, watch out for the screening of Aki Kaurismäki’s cult classic Leningrad Cowboys Go ...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
News: ICA Films have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of two films on 21st September 2009. Barebones and priced at £12.99 RRP each, both are titles previously released by Optimum which have now moved to ICA... The Man Without A Past - The second in...
Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Poster from Mika Kaurismäki's film from 1987. Being screened tonight. If you are not yet familiar with amazing Finnish auteurs Kaurismäki - here´s your chance! Tonight at 7pm there will be a one screening only of the 1987 road movie Helsinki-Napoli All Night Long . Director Mika Kaurismäki is the older member of Finlands most creative and important filmmaking team, with the other...
Shoot the Projectionist (Free subscription) | 07/18/2009
Sublime moments amidst (somehow adorably) bleak romantic comedy: from a heart-attack, cut to a stray dog running; and Ilona’s smile after Nikander’s darkest comment. Shadows in Paradise (1986); written/directed by Aki Kaurismaki; starring Matti Pellonpaa, Kati Outinen.
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
I am a blogger from Istanbul , Turkey . On my personal blog which is called " Ay'dan İzlenimler (Impressions from the Moon), I write my views over the movies, music and cultural events. A Trip to the Moon (1902) .. Georges Méliès Aelita (1924) .. Yakov Protazanov Citizen Kane (1941) .. Orson Welles Casablanca (1942) .. Michael Curtiz Sunset Boulevard (1950) .. Billy Wilder The...
Rotational (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
I don’t know much about Finnish humour, but if The Man Without A Past is anything to go by, it’s about as grimly ironic as one might expect. Aki Kaurismäki’s 2002 film presents a story about Helsinki’s underclass that’s wracked with bleak suicide and rapacious extortion, sour bureaucracy and brutal robbery, but one also marked [...]
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