Sodankylä Forever
05/08/2010
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.
Movie Information
Peter von Bagh
as Self
Robert Parrish
as Self
Roy Ward Baker
as Self
Víctor Erice
as Self
Francis Ford Coppola
as Self
Samuel Fuller
as Self
Sergio Sollima
as Self
Miloš Forman
as Self
John Boorman
as Self
Roger Corman
as Self
Jean Rouch
as Self
Manoel de Oliveira
as Self
Claude Chabrol
as Self
Jacques Demy
as Self
Krzysztof Kieślowski
as Self
Abbas Kiarostami
as Self
Terry Gilliam
as Self
Miklós Jancsó
as Self
Jean-Pierre Léaud
as Self
João Bénard da Costa
as Self
G. Carbera Infante
as Self
José Luis Guarner
as Self
Jonathan Rosenbaum
as Self
Jean Douchet
as Self
Raymond Durgnat
as Self
Pertti Lumirae
as Self
Satu Laaksonen
as Self
Jonathan Demme
as Self
Paolo Taviani
as Self
Agnieszka Holland
as Self
Andrei German
as Self
André de Toth
as Self
Krzysztof Zanussi
as Self
Monte Hellman
as Self
Dušan Makavejev
as Self
Gian Vittorio Baldi
as Self
Carroll Ballard
as Self
Jim Jarmusch
as Self
Andrey Smirnov
as Self
Denys Arcand
as Self
Vincent Sherman
as Self
Luc Dardenne
as Self
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
as Self
Vittorio De Seta
as Self
Francesco Rosi
as Self
Bob Rafelson
as Self
Dino Risi
as Self
Chantal Akerman
as Self
