Tag: Aki Kaurismäki
Fallen Leaves | Review
All the Leaves Are Brown: Kaurismaki’s Song for the Lonely
Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki adds a fourth chapter to his thematic Proletariat Trilogy with...
2023 European Film Awards: The Zone of Interest, Fallen Leaves & Anatomy of a Fall Grab Most Noms
The European Film Academy revealed the nominees for the main categories of the 36th European Film Awards and while Radu Jude's Do Not Expect Too...
2023 TIFF: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ilker Çatak, Monia Chokri & Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir Selected
Last year the Contemporary World Cinema had plenty of Cannes Film Festival gems in Aftersun, Falcon Lake, R.M.N. and The Worst Ones. This year's...
2023 NYFF: Haigh, Hamaguchi, Lanthimos, Triet, Glazer and Annie Baker in Main Slate
We were scratching our heads on where films such as Andrew Haigh's (retitled) All of Us Strangers and the under-the-radar A24 film by Annie...
2023 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Competition [Video]
Ruben Östlund, Maryam Touzani, Denis Ménochet, Rungano Nyoni, Brie Larson, Paul Dano, Atiq Rahimi, Damián Szifron and Julia Ducournau put the cards on the...
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10
We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you...
Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6
Following Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without a Past (2002), Lights in the Dusk (2006), and 2011's Le Havre, Finland's favorite auteur Aki Kaurismäki...
You BETcha!: Kaouther Ben Hania, Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Alice Rohrwacher, Wang Bing & Glazer Top Contenders for the Palme d’Or
Yesterday the Cannes Film Festival opened with Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry (marking the return of Johnny Depp in the French language no less) but...
Live from Cannes: 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Last year Ruben Östlund took home the big daddy of film prizes winning his second Palme d'Or and this year he gets to be...
2023 Cannes: Glazer, Ceylan, Rohrwacher, Haynes & Ramata-Toulaye Sy Competing for the Palme d’Or
A surprise Wim Wenders project (Perfect Days), a rare directorial debut Ramata-Toulaye Sy (Banel et Adama) and a Wang Bing film (Jeunesse) are part...
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Out of Comp, Midnight, Special Screenings & Cannes Premiere
The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival (May 16th until the 27th) begins exactly fifty days from now and from the one-hundred-plus feature...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #34. Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves
Kuolleet lehdet
The Finnish master filmmaker might have slightly slowed down with a one feature pace every half dozen years or so which means a...
Forget the Rake: Aki Kaurismäki Sets up Tragicomedy “Dead Leaves” with Alma Pöysti
Some surprising news from Variety (from one of our own in Cannes Critics Panel journalist Marta Balaga) this morning with an update on Finnish...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Lila Aviles’ Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile this...
Balagov’s “Closeness”, Olsson’s “That Summer” & Quinn’s “Eating Animals” Land in Telluride
While questions still surround when (and where) Abdellatif Kechiche's Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno and Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here will have...
The Conversation: Top 20 Best Films of 2017 So Far …
At the mid-way point of 2017, the usual cinematic trends continue, with the best theatrical offerings from January through June mostly festival circuit offerings...
Aki Kaurismaki’s “The Other Side of Hope” Leads Nicholas Bell’s 2017 Berlin Intl. Film Fest Top Ten
Unfortunately, Berlinale 2017, the 67th edition of the film festival, may be remembered as something of a letdown. Although several surprises were to be...
2017 Berlin Intl. Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 10 Most Anticipated Films
As the 67th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival kicks off, we run blazing into a new year of auteur worship. While the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #10. Aki Kaurismaki’s The Other Side of Hope
The Other Side of Hope (aka Refugee)
Director: Aki Kaurismaki
Writer: Aki Kaurismaki
Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismaki scored some of the best notices of his impressive career...
The Conversation: A Cannes Opener… 2017 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
And as we await the unveiling of the Venice Film’s Festival’s 2016 program, we look ahead to what may be in store for the...
Leningrad Cowboy: Aki Kaurismäki Invests in “The Other Side of Hope”
Aki Kaurismäki will likely be hitting the Croisette in back to back years. He'll be in Cannes to collect Carrosse d'Or (Golden Coach) award...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: An Introduction
As we were putting together our projections for most anticipated films due in 2017, we noticed there were too many notable titles to be...
Criterion Collection: La Vie De Boheme | Blu-ray Review
As an entry into Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismaki’s filmography, his 1992 film La Vie De Boheme, which is loosely based on Henri Murger’s Scenes...
Criterion Collection: Le Havre | Blu-ray Review
Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre is a charming and engrossing fable - a sort of Fractured Fairy Tale for adults - that interprets one of...
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