Sodankylä Forever
Masters of Cinema Under the Midnight Sun
2010 fi 273 minutes
Rating: 0
Plot
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.
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Cast
Peter von Bagh
Self
Robert Parrish
Self
Roy Ward Baker
Self
Víctor Erice
Self
Francis Ford Coppola
Self
Samuel Fuller
Self
Sergio Sollima
Self
Miloš Forman
Self
John Boorman
Self
Roger Corman
Self
Jean Rouch
Self
Manoel de Oliveira
Self
Claude Chabrol
Self
Jacques Demy
Self
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Self
Abbas Kiarostami
Self
Terry Gilliam
Self
Miklós Jancsó
Self
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Self
João Bénard da Costa
Self
G. Carbera Infante
Self
José Luis Guarner
Self
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Self
Jean Douchet
Self
Raymond Durgnat
Self
Pertti Lumirae
Self
Satu Laaksonen
Self
Jonathan Demme
Self
Paolo Taviani
Self
Agnieszka Holland
Self
Andrei German
Self
André de Toth
Self
Krzysztof Zanussi
Self
Monte Hellman
Self
Dušan Makavejev
Self
Gian Vittorio Baldi
Self
Carroll Ballard
Self
Jim Jarmusch
Self
Andrey Smirnov
Self
Denys Arcand
Self
Vincent Sherman
Self
Luc Dardenne
Self
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Self
Vittorio De Seta
Self
Francesco Rosi
Self
Bob Rafelson
Self
Dino Risi
Self
Chantal Akerman
Self
