Release Date
05 Aug, 2010
Runtime
04:33: (HH:MM)
Synopsis
Masters of Cinema Under the Midnight Sun
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. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.
Original Title
Sodankylä ikuisesti: Elokuvan vuosisata
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Actors
Peter von Bagh
Robert Parrish
Roy Ward Baker
Víctor Erice
Francis Ford Coppola
Samuel Fuller
Sergio Sollima
Miloš Forman
John Boorman
Roger Corman
Jean Rouch
Manoel de Oliveira
Claude Chabrol
Jacques Demy
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Abbas Kiarostami
Terry Gilliam
Miklós Jancsó
Jean-Pierre Léaud
João Bénard da Costa
Crew