The bus trip from Oulu to Tromsø for the Tromsø International Film Festival will be organised also for year 2012! The bus leaves from Oulu Central Bus Station at 2:00 AM in the night between Wed the 18th and Thu the 19th January 2012, and it will be back on Sun 22nd. You can find [...]
Another year is over. As this is my sixth time working as a volunteer at the Midnight Sun Film Festival, I realised that my years don't end anymore on the 31st of December, but rather at the end of the festival. This year's festival has been special for many reason. It was the 25th festival, [...]
Let’s keep up this documentary trend! Last Party 2000 (US, 2001): a documentary featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman hitting the road and watching what’s going on in the months before the American elections of year 2000 (Al Gore vs. Bush). Many interesting things: seeing the film after seven years gave me the picture that is has [...]
Now it’s time for a documentary that was shown tonight on YLE2: Bloody Cartoons: what happened after the cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad were published on a Danish newspaper? This documentary is based on the journey of a Danish journalist in several countries in Europe and the Middle East, interviewing the key people involved [...]
I really, really can’t complain of the quality of films I have seen recently! The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen, Germany, 2006): an Oscar-winning film telling the story of a cold Stasi agent, back in the eighties in East Berlin, spying the life of a theatre dramatist, suspected of conspiring against the DDR. [...]
And here we are with the films I’ve seen at Rakkautta ja Anarkiaa, the Helsinki International Film Festival 2007: The Boss of it All: a comedy by the CCDFD (completely crazy Danish film director) Lars von Trier. The situation takes place in an IT company, where an actor is asked to act as the director [...]
And here is my film of the week: The Fog of War (2003): a documentary about the United States at war (and of the other countries involved) through the account of Robert McNamara, who has been in the US Army Air Forces during WWII and later served as the United States Secretary of Defense during [...]
Here’s another good film I just found by chance in a video rental shop (marked as "documentary"!). Why is it so hard to see these films on TV? Osama: during the Taliban domination in Afghanistan, a 12-year-old girl, daugher of a widowed mother, has to cut her hair and dress as a boy to find [...]
I have seen really nice films this year at the Espoo Ciné Film Festival: The Secret Life of Words: A film about tortured people and the way they restart life after everything is over. You can also have a look at the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims Chrigu: a documentary about a young Swiss [...]
I just saw on YLE1 a very good Norwegian documentary about Iran called Forbidden Future. It was shot in between 2005 and 2006 in Tehran, and it tells the life of three persons: Ali, the singer and guitarist of the death metal band Scourge (now called ArtimotH); Sanam, a freestyle skier who has participated in [...]
