Showing posts with label Finland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Finland. Show all posts
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19 September 2012
LIVE EAST DIE YOUNG East London film nominated best UK picture at Raindance
Finnish Director Laura Hyppönen’s gritty East London debut film Live East Die Young has received a nomination for best UK feature film at this year’s Raindance Film Festival in London.
The film will hold its world premiere at the festival on the 4th October, shortly followed by French premiere at the Dinard British Film Festival where the film has been nominated for the festival’s Grand Jury prize, the Golden Hitchcock.
Shot on a shoestring budget and featuring a distinctive soundtrack from the indie underground wave (featuring cult bands Bo Ningen, Feral AKA MC Kinky and many others), Live East Die Young is a raw look at the lives of model Emma and her best friend, hairdresser Max, as they descend ever-deeper into a destructive world of parties, lies, sex and drugs. Shot entirely at authentic East London locations, from artist warehouses to club basements, the film offers a voyeuristic, dogma-esque look into their substance-fuelled lifestyle. The film also stars newcomers Zoë Grisedale and James ‘Jeanette’ Main, best known for his involvement with notorious real-life East London party collective, Boombox.
Hyppönen, who has been living in the UK for 11 years, produced, wrote and directed the film. She says: “It’s great that an edgy independent no-budget film like Live East Die Young has been recognised among recent UK successes like ‘Ill Manors’ and ‘Shadow Dancer’. The project has been a labour of love, made without any support from film funds. We are really excited to see how the audience will respond!”
The film is sold internationally by Paris-based Reel Suspects. Matteo Lovadina, CEO, who handpicked the project from Cannes during the Marche du Film, says: “I am pleased to work as the international sales agent for Live East Die Young. The film’s roughness and documentary look made me feel immediately inside the story. It’s a crossover film that can fit equally well into niches and attract the general public. The Raindance world premiere and Dinard competition selection are a confirmation of the film’s potential.”
7 July 2012
Aki Kaurismäki's LE HAVRE DVD/BluRay Details
LE HAVRE sees Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki (The Man Without a Past) tackle the subject of Northern Europe’s attitude to refugees from the developing world. His approach is dramatic, funny, heart-warming and, like his other work, beautifully offbeat. Featuring superb performances from its cast that includes André Wilms (La Vie de Bohème), Jean-Pierre Darroussin (Red Lights) and the young Blondin Miguel, LE HAVRE is a must-own title of the summer and is released 6 August on DVD &Blu-ray.
Marcel Marx (Wilms), a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre, where he feels he has reached a closer rapport with the people serving them in the occupation of the honourable, but not too profitable, of a shoe-shiner. He has buried his dreams of a literary breakthrough and lives happily within the triangle of his favourite bar, his work, and his wife Arletty (Outinen), when fate suddenly throws in his path an underage immigrant refugee from the darkest Africa. As Arletty at the same time gets seriously ill and is bedridden, Marcel once more has to rise against the cold wall of human indifference with his only weapon of innate optimism and the unwavering solidarity of the people of his quartier, but against him stands the whole blind machinery of the Western constitutionally governed state, this time represented by the dragnet of the police, moment by moment drawing closer around the refugee boy.Le Havre will be yours to own on DVD&Blu-Ray when it's released in UK&Ireland 6 August. Stay tuned for a fresh DVD review and a chance to win a copy of the film on DVD a joint competition with The Peoples Movies. Le Havre stars André Wilms, Blondin Miguel, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Kate Outinen
It’s time for Marcel to polish his shoes and reveal his teeth.
Le Havre Official UK Trailer - In Cinemas April 6 Published via LongTail.tv
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25 November 2010
Red Band Trailer For RARE EXPORTS:A CHRISTMAS TALE
Are you a horror fan or wanting to bring a little bit of festive terror to your yultide celebrations? If you do kick off December by checking out RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE when its released on December 3rd by Icon Distribution. I started looking at this movie a while back at my other blog cinehouse and its toured the film festival network picking up accolades at Sigtes Film Festival (best film & director) along with noteable inclusion at Toronto & London and the movie has grown strength to strength.I caught the trailer the last couple weeks at the cinema and I love to observe the audience reaction and it was of surprise as well as enjoyments, watch something different this festive season check out RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE
Trailer after the break.....
9 November 2010
RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE UK Trailer
You dont believe in santa? Well watch this and you will! Movies from Scandinavia have been getting a fair crack of the whip in the English speaking parts of the world when it comes to sucess in the movies Steig Larsson’s Millemium Trilogy has put the area on the map when it comes to good qaulity films.But in the last few weeks one new movie this time from Finland has been getting the limelight and thats Jalmari Helander’s RARE EXPORT: A CHRISTMAS TALE.
The past few weeks we’ve had the American Marketing and today the UK trailer has been released thanks to ICON Distribution who will release the movie on December 3rd. As I said dont beleive in Old Nick? You better think twice after this fantasy comedy and if you do beleive just remember not to awaken him before December 25th if you do he’ll be extremely pissed off and to find out how peed off he’ll be check this movie out!
Looking for alternative Festive fun movie? Rare Exports: A christmas tale is the one for you!!!
Synopsis & Trailer after the break....
26 May 2010
Trailer For Olli Saarela's PRIEST OF EVIL
With The Sucess of The Millenum Trilogy from Steig Larsson so far outside his native scandanavia, it was only a matter of time before some other similar book come movie will make its move into international shores.
The movie is called PRIEST OF EVIL (Harjunpää ja pahan pappi) created by acclaimed author Matti Yrjänä Joensuu
and Timo Harjunpää is Joensuu's most well known fictional detective and now he'll be coming to the big screen but will he have the same success as the girl with the dragon tattoo? Only time will tell.
Below is the book's synopsis as I'm unable to get hold of the movie one in english and after the break check out the trailer/teaser....
27 February 2010
Dead Sno directors new flick...Kurt Josef Wagle And The Legend of the Fjord Witch,
source TwitchFilm
You wonder if the nazi-zombie horror Dod Sno (Dead Snow) wasn't a hit would we have been blessed with crazy mad world of Tommy Wirkola? probably not. We've had Tomme Toner a gangster spoof and now we have Kurt Josef Wagle And The Legend of the Fjord Witch.
This is a spoof piss take mocumentary taking the rip out of the current trend of Paranormal Activivty/[REC]/Blair Witch project movies, the one person shooter movies. When you see the name of the movie the biggest clue is there is a mock and boy Tommy know how to make these look so good even when the above trailer is not subtitled! It was done on the cheap as well as quickly but we dont care this looks fun!
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