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I wrote this piece in 2015, to explain the culture I wanted to create around my then upcoming feature film, Distracted. However, it's now 2021, as I put together my next production, Composure, the same cinema culture holds true. This idea of 'creating cinema culture'...
Read MoreOver the last 10 years or so, I've been lucky enough to see many of my favourite films projected on to the big screen, largely due to various retrospectives. As would be expected, the big screen significantly enriches our experience of a film, although it...
Read More[caption id="attachment_175658031" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Matti Pellonpää with Kati Outinen in Aki Kaurismaki's Take Care Of Your Scarf Tatiana.[/caption] Matti Pellonpää is most closely associated with the filmmaking brothers Kaurismaki, Aki and Mika, acting in eighteen of their pictures. Some even said he was Aki's on-screen alter-ego....
Read MoreSanna Peden is currently Assistant Professor of European Studies at the University of Western Australia. Her key research interests are cinema, memory, nostalgia and place within the broad context of contemporary European identities. She has written extensively on the work of Aki Kaurismaki. Her essays: “Aki Kaurismäki”,...
Read MoreThe obsession with "doing emotions" in modern acting is little short of a disaster. It paints the character (and therefore the actor) as a victim, stripping him of dignity. Further, when an actor tries to squeeze emotion out of themselves, they turn inward rather than...
Read MoreKati Outinen is a essential actor in the films of Finnish auteur, Aki Kaurismaki, appearing in no less than ten of them. She is one of the foremost exponents of the peculiar dead pan, minimalist acting found in Kaurismaki's films, where he often prohibits the...
Read MoreIrene Jacob in The Dust Of Time (Theo Angelopoulos) An epic performance by Jacob, in a film which spans decades. She not only manages the shift in age without fuss, but she also delivers a performance of astonishing sensitivity but which is neithe...
Read MoreKati Outinen is probably best known for her work with Finnish filmmaker, Aki Kaurismaki, having appeared in many, many of his films, including Match Factory Girl, Take Care Of Your Scarf Tatiana, and most recently, Le Havre. For those unfamiliar w...
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