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Jim Jarmusch in Finland! Sodankylä Forever Sodankylä Ikuisesti “To quote the NYFF program notes, “Surely the most singular of events in the annual calendar of film culture, the Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle—where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter Von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter Von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso—and 64 more! Call it Finland’s idiosyncratic and playful answer to Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinema!  As D.A. Pennebaker has noted, “Woodstock is fucking nothing if you have been at the Midnight Sun Film Festival.”” source: altscreen.com

Jim Jarmusch in Finland!

Sodankylä Forever
Sodankylä Ikuisesti

“To quote the NYFF program notes, “Surely the most singular of events in the annual calendar of film culture, the Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle—where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter Von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter Von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso—and 64 more! Call it Finland’s idiosyncratic and playful answer to Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinema!

 As D.A. Pennebaker has noted, “Woodstock is fucking nothing if you have been at the Midnight Sun Film Festival.””

source: altscreen.com

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