Sodankyla Forever

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Sodankylä Forever
By Peter Von Bagh
Sun, Apr 1 & Sun, Apr 8, 2pm

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 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 oral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.

The Century of the Cinema and The Yearning for the First Cinema Experience
Sun, Apr 1, 2pm
(2011, 149 min total running time, digital, ten minute intermission between parts)

This four-part epic weaves together dialogues from the Midnight Sun Film Festival, which has hosted an international who’s who of directors. Today we present the first two segments.

The Century of the Cinema: The twentieth century as told by great filmmakers. The origin stories of films reveal histories lived, stories from childhood, and the early years “before I became a filmmaker.” Featuring, among others: Michael Powell, Abbas Kiarostami, Joseph H. Lewis, Youssef Chahine and Francis Ford Coppola.

The Yearning for the First Cinema Experience: The question that always opens the discussion: What is the first film you saw? So often that “chance” foreshadows the future artist’s identity as a filmmaker. Featuring, among others: Samuel Fuller, Jean Rouch, Agnes Varda, Jerzy Skolimowski and Jafar Panahi.

Eternal Time and Drama of Light
Sun, Apr 8, 2pm
(2011, 112 min total running time, digital)

This four-part epic weaves together dialogues from the Midnight Sun Film Festival, which has hosted an international who’s who of directors. Today we present the second two segments.

Eternal Time: Filmmakers weave personal tales about the films and colleagues who have left the most permanent memories. Featuring, among others: Victor Erice, Wim Wenders, Pedro Costa, Claude Chabrol and Emir Kusturica.

Drama of Light: The leading character of the festival is light: from the light of the film projector to the light of the midnight sun. We talk about actors, including first-hand accounts of what it meant to direct Bogart, Monroe, and many others. Featuring, among others: Monte Hellman, Robert Wise, Bob Rafelson, Milos Forman and Roy Ward Baker.

Where:
YBCA Screening Room
701 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Public Info:
415-978-2787 or ybca.org
$8 Regular/$6 YBCA members, students, seniors, teachers

More Info

Link

http://ybca.org/great-directors-speak

Call

415-978-2787 (Box Office)