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Best cameo? Best hat? Ahead of the Oscars, AP hands out its own awards
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Best cameo? Best hat? Ahead of the Oscars, AP hands out its own awards

Associated Press  

The Academy Awards honor many things in movies but not some of the most important. This image released by Sony Pictures Animation shows Miles Morales as Spider-Man and Spider-Gwen in a scene from Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.” BEST DUO ACT: Jeffrey Wright and John Ortiz, ‘American Fiction’ As great as the whole ensemble is …

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Cannes Prize-winning Finnish film Fallen Leaves is about finding love in the hellscape of capitalism
10 months, 1 week ago

Cannes Prize-winning Finnish film Fallen Leaves is about finding love in the hellscape of capitalism

ABC  

The minimalistic, heartwarming oddity of a film Fallen Leaves is a rom-com unlike any other. Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki brings us the story of Ansa and Holappa, who catch each other's eyes in a karaoke bar and keep encountering one another thereafter. Every word in Kaurismäki's dry, sardonic script is meticulously and deliberately placed — there is no mindless chatter …

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Greta Gerwig snubbed for best director and other Oscar nominations surprises
11 months ago

Greta Gerwig snubbed for best director and other Oscar nominations surprises

Associated Press  

Cue all the “did ‘Barbie’ direct itself” snark. It’s not a secret that the Oscars have a bad track record with Black female directors — remember last year how Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “The Woman King” was also shut out? And Halle Berry will for another year continue to be the only Black woman to ever win best actress, as “The Color …

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‘Fallen Leaves’ movie review: Aki Kaurismäki creates a timeless Finnish romance
11 months ago

‘Fallen Leaves’ movie review: Aki Kaurismäki creates a timeless Finnish romance

The Hindu  

It is easy to blink and miss any references to the 21st century in Aki Kaurismäki’s latest film Fallen Leaves. Set entirely in Helsinki, Fallen Leaves gives very little away in the way of telling the audience exactly when Ansa and Holappa are falling in love. Fallen Leaves Director: Aki Kaurismäki Cast: Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Janne Hyytiäinen, Nuppu Koivu …

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Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen interview: On ‘Fallen Leaves’ and falling in love with Aki Kaurismäki
11 months, 1 week ago

Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen interview: On ‘Fallen Leaves’ and falling in love with Aki Kaurismäki

The Hindu  

Aki Kaurismäki’s romance film Fallen Leavessneaks up on you. This process is not as difficult as it sounds when working with Kaurismäki; according to her, it’s very easy to trust Aki and his team “because they have been doing it for such a long time!” Fallen Leaves follows Kaurismäki’s earlier films Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, and The Match Factory Girl, …

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What to stream this weekend: Jason Momoa roaming, Green Day rocking and ‘Fast X’ exploding
11 months, 1 week ago

What to stream this weekend: Jason Momoa roaming, Green Day rocking and ‘Fast X’ exploding

Associated Press  

Jason Momoa hosting a new travel docuseries for Max called “On the Roam” and the Finnish romantic comedy “Fallen Leaves” are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you. Now she’s working with designers and just creating community at every stage of her life.” — Or if you just want some big, dumb, …

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From Finland, with love, Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen bring ‘Fallen Leaves’ to Hollywood
11 months, 1 week ago

From Finland, with love, Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen bring ‘Fallen Leaves’ to Hollywood

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — There are two types of cinephiles in the world: Aki Kaurismäki fans and future Aki Kaurismäki fans. Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen, the Finnish stars of his latest, the tragicomic romance “Fallen Leaves,” are getting to meet both during their whirlwind tour of America at the height of Hollywood’s awards season. They are running out of superlatives …

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From Finland, with love, Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen bring ‘Fallen Leaves’ to Hollywood
11 months, 1 week ago

From Finland, with love, Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen bring ‘Fallen Leaves’ to Hollywood

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen, the Finnish stars of …

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Golden Globes 2024 | ‘Barbie’ leads nominations with 9, ‘Oppenheimer’ follows closely
1 year ago

Golden Globes 2024 | ‘Barbie’ leads nominations with 9, ‘Oppenheimer’ follows closely

The Hindu  

Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” dominated the Golden Globe Awards nominations with nine nods for the blockbuster film, including Best Picture Musical or Comedy as well as acting nominations for Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and three of its original songs. It was closely followed by its release date and meme companion Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” which scored eight nominations, including best picture …

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Best movies of 2023: ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Fallen Leaves,’ ‘May December’
1 year ago

Best movies of 2023: ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Fallen Leaves,’ ‘May December’

Associated Press  

The Associated Press’ Film Writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle’s picks for the best movies of 2023: LINDSEY BAHR 1. “May December” It takes a master like Todd Haynes to authentically blend high camp and melodrama with grounded emotion, but that’s what he’s managed to do with the sickly entertaining “ May December. “Fallen Leaves” Loneliness and lousy bosses are …

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Review: In ‘Fallen Leaves,’ a Finnish master returns with another deadpan dream of romance
1 year, 1 month ago

Review: In ‘Fallen Leaves,’ a Finnish master returns with another deadpan dream of romance

LA Times  

Two middle-aged women, Ansa and Liisa, have just been abruptly fired from their supermarket jobs. Such is the case in “Fallen Leaves,” which plays like a spiritual continuation to the director’s so-called Proletariat Trilogy from the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. If it weren’t for brief sightings of modern technology, one could easily assume “Fallen Leaves” came from a bygone …

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The 2024 Oscars BuzzMeter predicts the nominees — who and what makes the inner circle?
1 year, 1 month ago

The 2024 Oscars BuzzMeter predicts the nominees — who and what makes the inner circle?

LA Times  

Four of the top contenders for Oscar nominations in the category of lead actor, according to the BuzzMeter : Paul Giamatti ; Jeffrey Wright ; Cillian Murphy ; Andrew Scott. “He’s a revelation.” Claudia Puig says, “It seems probable that it will be a contest between Robert De Niro and twice-nominated Ryan Gosling as the inimitably hilarious Ken in the …

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Movie Review: ‘Fallen Leaves’ is deadpan nirvana
1 year, 1 month ago

Movie Review: ‘Fallen Leaves’ is deadpan nirvana

Associated Press  

In a movie year rife with grand, three-hour opuses from auteur filmmakers comes a slender 81-minute gem that outclasses them all. Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves,” short, sweet and utterly delightful, is the kind of movie that’s so charming, you want to run it back the moment it’s over. “Fallen Leaves,” Kaurismäki’s first since 2017’s “The Other Side of Hope,” is …

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MAMI mia! – notes from a festival
1 year, 1 month ago

MAMI mia! – notes from a festival

Hindustan Times  

A good film festival is a cinema lover’s Diwali and Christmas combined, and I eagerly looked forward to this edition of the MAMI ), that was reappearing after four years. Millennium Mambo, a film by Hou Hsiao-hsien The venues spread across the city included some traditional MAMI favourites – Regal in Colaba, PVR Juhu and PVR Icon at Infinity Mall …

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Fallen Leaves review: Aki Kaurismäki delivers a compact, life-affirming triumph in one of the finest films of the year
1 year, 1 month ago

Fallen Leaves review: Aki Kaurismäki delivers a compact, life-affirming triumph in one of the finest films of the year

Hindustan Times  

The World is at war, people are dying. This is the daily journey of two loners Ansa and Hollapa, until their lives intersect in Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki's Fallen Leaves. Funny, achingly sad and life-affirming all within 81 minutes, Fallen Leaves- which won the Jury Prize at Cannes- is a compact jewel of a film, one that makes you want …

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What we learned and loved at the Telluride Film Festival
1 year, 3 months ago

What we learned and loved at the Telluride Film Festival

LA Times  

I realize “Jeopardy!” tapes weeks in advance, so it’s probably not possible to add the following category to the quiz show when it returns from hiatus in the next few days. The highs and lows of the 2023 Telluride Film Festival Standing in line to see the Saturday evening premiere of “Poor Things,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ audacious inquisition into what it …

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The eight best films we saw at Telluride
1 year, 3 months ago

The eight best films we saw at Telluride

LA Times  

While it proved an unusually actor-challenged edition, this year’s Telluride Film Festival did benefit from an especially strong lineup, featuring a clutch of major world premieres as well as significant titles from previous fests like Cannes and Berlin. — Glenn Whipp ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Sandra Hüller in the movie “Anatomy of a Fall.” Winner of the Palme d’Or at …

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