Entertainment & Arts
A Second Look: ‘Le Havre’ director Aki Kaurismaki
Oct. 16, 2011
Movies
The much-lauded ‘Man Without a Past’ is a frozen Finnish treat, minimalist in dialogue and emotion but long on subversive comedy.
April 11, 2003
The UCLA Film and Television Archive is presenting eight films from Finland’s Kaurismaki brothers from Thursday through March 11 at Melnitz Theater.
Feb. 22, 1989
Aki Kaurismaki, the Finnish director with the euphonious name, is a filmmaker who goes his own way, and never more so than in “The Other Side of Hope.”
Nov. 30, 2017
Great movies, like sudden romances, sometimes spring up in strange places.
Feb. 19, 1993
Aki Kaurismaki’s droll update of “La Vie de Boheme” takes a dry-as-dust, minimalist approach to the 1861 Henri Murger novel that inspired the 1896 Puccini opera only to wind up surprisingly more emotionally affecting than the celebrated, romantic 1926 King Vidor silent version of the story in which no less than Lillian Gish is Mimi and John Gilbert is Rodolfo.
March 18, 1994
“The Films of Peter Wollen,” composed of four films to be presented by the UCLA Film and Television Archive over the next three Thursdays, commences Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Melnitz Theater with “Friendship’s Death” (1987).
Feb. 28, 1989
Last year, the UCLA Film Archive introduced the droll and distinctive Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki to local audiences, and now the Nuart is presenting his “Ariel” (today through Nov. 13) and “Leningrad Cowboys Go America” (opening Nov. 14).
Nov. 7, 1990
It’s curious that Aki Kaurismaki’s “Leningrad Cowboys Go America” (1990) would be picked as part of the Festival of Arts’ “Windows Onto an American Landscape” series because the movie really has so little to do with this country.
Aug. 5, 1992
Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki, whose “The Man Without a Past” is up for an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, said he and his production company will skip Sunday’s ceremony to protest plans for a U.S.
March 20, 2003