Ensi kuussa skandinavia talossa esitetään 11. päivä Levottomat, 17. päivä jokin palkittu taide-elokuva, 21. päivä Poika ja Ilves (lastenelokuva) ja 25. päivä Badding.
Poika ja ilves on ei ole pelkastaan lastenleffa, aikuisetkin siita nauttivat. Kun kavin katsomassa sen Suomessa kun se ilmestyi, ei katsomossa ollut ollenkaan lapsia. Todella mahtavaa saada Suomalaisia leffoja Nykiin! Leffa valinnat osuivat myos juuri nappiin!
There will be some interesting films shown at the Scandinavia House:
- April 4 "Juha"
- " 11 "The Restless"
- " 18 "Seven Songs from the Tundra"
- " 21 "Tommy and the Wild Cat" (not only for children!)
- " 25 "Badding"
Katja
30 March 2001, 00:33
Onko nama elokuvat suomeksi vai englanniksi? Haluaisin vieda amerikkalaisen mieheni katsomaan muutaman kuvan, mutta jos ne on vain suomeksi niin eipa siita paljoa irtoa...
Soittakaa Scandinavia taloon. Webbi sivulla on tuskin mitaan infoa suomalaisista elokuvista. http://viestit.etusivu.net/old/frown.gif
http://www.amscan.org/scanhouse/programs.htm#film
FOR RESERVATIONS: CALL 847-9746
NOTE: Reservations will be held until 10 minutes before show time.
Recent Films from Finland:
Wed. April 4, Wed. April 11, Wed. April 18, Wed. April 25.
Katja, leffat on tekstitetty englanniksi eli suomiriemua riittää koko perhelle.
Olen kirjoittanut NYC:in Scandinavia Houseille ja valittanut/ehdottanut etta he yllapitavat websitea huolellisemmin (siis ajantasalla, mm elokuva tiedot). Olen jasen ja haluaisin kayttaa websitea tietovalineena, mutta se on aina "vanha" -- hermostuttaa. Toivottavasti kirjeeni auttaa. Kirjoittakaa heille te muutkin AMSCAN jasenet!
April 4
Juha
6:00 p.m.
Written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki (1999); original score by Antti
Tikanmaki;
78 min; 35 mm; b/w; Finnish with English intertitles.
With Sakari Kuosmanen, Kati Outinen, André Wilms.
Only Aki Kaurismäki would think of making something as unusual as Juha.
A
silent film set in the mythical present, this is inspired by Juhani
Aho’s
1911 novel, which has previously been filmed three times. Kaurismäki’s
movie is inspired by one of Finland’s greatest directors of melodrama,
Teuvo Tulio, and is a direct descendent of a classic film from 1937 by
Nyrki Tapiovaara. Shot in beautiful black and white, with a
commissioned
orchestral score by the marvelous composer Antti Tikanmäki, the film
follows the destiny of a young farmer’s wife who is seduced by an
unscrupulous city slicker into running away from her stolid older
husband.
The director’s heartbreaking version of the triangular drama is told
through the faces and gestures made by the amazing actors as they
register
the characters’ inner struggles, closely followed by the subtle yet
emotional score.
April 11
Levottomat (The Restless)
6:00 p.m.
Directed by Aki Louhimies (2000); written by Aleksi Bardy; 110 min; 35
mm;
Finnish with English subtitles.
With Mikko Nousiainen, Petteri Summanen, Valtteri Roiha, Irina
Björklund,
Laura Malmivaara, Matleena Kuusniemi.
This film, Aki Louhimies’ feature debut, was a tremendous box-office
success in Finland, handsomely beating imported international
blockbusters.
The film’s protagonist, Ari, is a commitment-phobic doctor whose
newest
conquest, Tina, refuses to let him off the hook. The excellent
ensemble
cast embodies a modern story of friendships and sexual conflicts among
a
group of late twenty-something friends spending a last summer of youth
together. A drama of trust, lust, treason, and hatred evolves around
the
bored Don Juan with a budding conscience, whose womanizing talents
slowly
decay into self-repulsion.
April 18
Seitsemän Laulua Tundralta (Seven Songs from the Tundra)
6:00 p.m.
Directed by Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio (2000); 90 min; 35
mm;
b/w; Nenet and Russian with English subtitles.
With Vitalina Hudi, Hatjako Yzangi, Gregory Anaguritsi, Nadezhda
Volodeeva,
and Nadeshda Horotetto.
The screening will be introduced by the directors, who will also answer
questions after the film.
Stunning and poetic, this is the first feature ever shot in the Nenets
language, amongst the eponymous Eskimo people in the far north of
Russia,
where the tundra meets the Arctic ice. During the Soviet regime, camps
for
dissidents and criminals were set up in this isolated area. The film
tells
seven stories of cultural collisions between the Nenets and the Soviets
in
the unique and elegant form of indigenous “songs”: some short, some
long;
some comic, others tragic. These relate stories of love, life, and
death,
about longing and the importance of having a history.
The authentic feeling of the songs is the result of close collaboration
between the filmmakers—one of whom grew up in the small town where the
film
is shot—and native Nenets. The script, based on local legends and
personal
experiences, was written by Lapsui—a native Nenets—and all roles are
acted
by people appearing as themselves.
Seven Songs from the Tundra was named Best Nordic Film of the Year at
the
Haugesund Nordic Film Festival 2000.
April 21
Children’s Film
Poika ja Ilves (Tommy and the Wildcat)
12:30 p.m.
Directed by Raimo O. Niemi (1998); created and co-directed by Ville
Suhonen; 96 min; 35mm; original English-language version.
With Konsta Hietanen, Antti Virnavirta, Kristiina Halttu, Jarmo
Mäkinen,
and
Väiski the lynx.
Twelve-year-old Tommy is not happy about leaving the city with his
father
to move to a farm where his mother, who has recently died, grew up.
Once
there, near a wildlife park in northernmost Finland, it seems that his
only
friend is a captive lynx. He sets the animal free when the park
decides
that it has to be sold to a zoo abroad. But the lynx needs Tommy’s
help to
survive in the wild. With the local population and a poacher hunting
the
wildcat, both Tommy and the lynx are soon fighting for their lives in
the
extreme natural conditions.
Tommy and the Wildcat is a family adventure tale about childhood,
friendship, nature and survival, beautifully filmed in Finnish Lapland
in
close collaboration with Ranua Wildlife Park.
April 25
Badding
6:00 p.m.
Directed by Markku Pölönen (2000); written by Heikki Metsämäki and Mr.
Pölönen; 103 min; 35 mm; Finnish with English subtitles.
With Janne Reinikainen, Peter Franzén, Karoliina Blackburn, and Hannu
Valtonen.
In the popular genre of portrayals of artists, Badding is a
fictionalized
account of the real fate of Rauli Badding Somerjoki, the undisputed
leader
of Finnish rock music in the 1970s. The film is set in the 1980s, when
Badding is on a downward spiral and flees from a concert to travel
home.
His companion on the trip is a journalist and childhood friend, whose
hidden agenda is to resolve his own financial problems by writing an
article on Badding’s distress.
Through their trip and various flashbacks, Pölönen creates an original,
moving, and musical portrait of a sensitive man who is unable to come
to
terms with the demands of the world and of his own fame. Janne
Reinikainen, a new star of Finnish film, gives a strong and touching
performance as the troubled Badding, who is at once poetic and wild, a
rock
star and a lover of old Finnish dance songs, an innocent country boy
trapped in a rock star performance.
Tickets are available at the door $6 ($4 for ASF Members), Reservations
line for ASF Members ONLY is 847-9746. For info on ASF Membership,
visit:
www.amscan.org/member.htm (http://www.amscan.org/member.htm)
Tickets for Children's Film are $5 ($3 for ASF Members)
We hope to see you soon at Scandinavia House.
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