Espoo Cine this weekend!
Don’t forget, starting yesterday and ending Sunday is the annual Espoo Film Festival. Lots of great movies, cheap tickets (6e), most movies have English subtitles, even the Finnish ones. Highlights include: “Thank you for smoking“, “Puzzlehead“, and Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth“. And tonight at 22:00 is a free outdoor viewing of Aki Kaurismäki’s “Calamari Union” with English subtitles - I hope to be there.
Anyone going to the festival? Any other movies we should look out for? This one sounds interesting, “Aika tappaa“, finally a Finnish film that doesn’t take money from the state, I hope it’s a huge hit…
Finland does not produce many independent films. With very few exceptions, all Finnish films distributed commercially are productions supported by the Finnish Film Foundation. The only really independent film of the recent years has been the space parody Star Wreck, created by a group of hobbyists. Now it has received a worthy companion in the form of Aika tappaa, a feature-length film produced, written and directed by the first-time director Timo Puustinen with no state funding whatsoever.
Speaking of movies: http://www.jadesoturi.net/sneakpreview/
Comment by Jani Kuusisto — Wed, Aug 23rd, 2006 @ 4:28 pm
Wait… no state funding for 2 films produced in Finland?
Sorta wrecks the welfare state as we know it. How will the state feel if nobody asks for money?
Comment by winter — Wed, Aug 23rd, 2006 @ 4:32 pm
Ruokala Lokki! You must see it in Cine.
Comment by Suviko — Wed, Aug 23rd, 2006 @ 4:37 pm
“finally a Finnish film that doesn’t take money from the state”
Ever heard of Spede Pasanen? His films were very popular and he never got any state funding.
Comment by Nirva — Wed, Aug 23rd, 2006 @ 5:43 pm
This is very misleading: is a huge Hollywood hit “independent” as it doesn’t get state money? I would say the opposite is true - we get such a huge amount of totally tame and unexiting films from Hollywood. The Finnish system is actually very good: it combines the market forces and state subsidies very intelligently. So, we have a continuous flow of high quality movies that very often are also commercial successies. But many ideas are such that private money would be scared of them. But of course no amount of actual empirical observations will trump the Theory - winter, please add the usually banalities from your side.
Comment by mjr — Thu, Aug 24th, 2006 @ 1:17 pm
The day when one billion people speak Finnish, I’m pretty sure those subsidies will not be needed anymore.
Comment by tomia — Thu, Aug 24th, 2006 @ 1:47 pm
Echa A Rodar Tu Corto. . .
Your short feature to travel all over the world…
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Comment by S. — Fri, Aug 25th, 2006 @ 1:50 am