Aki Kaurismaki

Eclipse Series 29: Aki Kaurismaki's Leningrad Cowboys Matti Pellonpaa (Actor), Aki Kaurismaki (Director) | Format: DVD Release Date: October 18, 2011Buy new: $40.49 (Visit the Hot New Releases in Foreign Films list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.)Product ImagesReview & DescriptionIn the late eighties and early nineties, Aki Kaurismäki (The Match Factory Girl), the master of the deadpan, fashioned a waggish fish-out-of-water tale about a U.S. tour by “the worst...Read Full Story

Eclipse Series 29: Aki Kaurismaki's Leningrad Cowboys Matti Pellonpaa (Actor), Aki Kaurismaki (Director) | Format: DVD Release Date: October 18, 2011Buy new: $40.49 (Visit the Bestsellers in Art House & International list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.)Product ImagesReview & DescriptionIn the late eighties and early nineties, Aki Kaurismäki (The Match Factory Girl), the master of the deadpan, fashioned a waggish fish-out-of-water tale about a U.S. tour by “the...Read Full Story

Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy (Shadows in Paradise / Ariel / The Match Factory Girl) Kati Outinen (Actor), Matti Pellonpaa (Actor), Aki Kaurismaki (Director) | Format: DVD (4)Buy new: $33.99 21 used & new from $21.00(Visit the Bestsellers in Art House & International list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.)Review & DescriptionThe poignant, deadpan films of Aki Kaurismäki are pitched somewhere in the wintry nether lands between comedy and tragedy. And rarely...Read Full Story

Five years after his previous film, the extraordinary and unique Lights in the Dusk, Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki has presented his latest feature, Le Havre, in Cannes. The press conference given by Kaurismäki in his own inimitable style provided many memorable moments: after being told off for lighting a cigarette he replied that it was an electric cigarette and as such would require an electric ashtray to put it out. Irony, detachment and lack of expression are some of the...Read Full Story

LOS ANGELES, USA- The delectably sardonic and bittersweet films of Finnish writer/director Aki Kaurismaki remain little-seen in the United States (with the exception of his Oscar-nominated 2002 film The Man Without a Past). Working with a loyal company of actors, Kaurismaki’s films are equal parts Beckettian comedy, kitchen-sink melodrama and inebriated Nouvelle Vague lyricism. Film Independent Event details : Thursday, December 8th 7:30 pm – La vie de Bohème Three itinerant artists-an...Read Full Story