Movie review • Under Your Skin ( Käpy selän alla ) by Mikko Niskanen: The hottest of its time.
A film which aroused aggravation, opposition, but also fervent admiration. Under your skin is considered by the Finnish critic Peter von Bagh as one of those pivotal films which marked in Finland, during the Sixties, the passage "from the old [to] the new cinema. " A…
Movie review • Funeral parade of roses by Toshio Matsumoto
"I am the wound, the knives that strike, The blows that crush, the head that reels, I am wrenched limbs and grinding wheels, Victim and hangman, as you like!...", quote from the poem Héautontimorouménos by Charles Baudelaire (Greek title meaning "The Self Tormente…
Movie review • Intimate Lighting : Fruit of the Czech New Wave by Ivan Passer
The colorful characters finally play in unison only in absurdity, sweeping the cacophony of regrets and fears. If we only had to name a filmmaker who did not receive the recognition he/she could have claimed, it would be for us that of Ivan Passer . A regular screenwriter of Mil…
