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Calamari Union (Aki Kaurismäki, 1985)

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Aki Kaurismäki

- La Vie de Bohème

1992

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Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994)

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Matti Pellonpää as Nikander in Shadows in Paradise (1986)

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Varjoja paratiisissa (Shadows of Paradise)

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La Vie de Boheme (Aki Kaurismaki), 1992

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MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I’m going to see my sister. She was studying in Stockholm. Now she’s in a mental hospital. Want to come?”

Matti Pellonpaa in Shadows in Paradise (1986)

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204. Trilogia do Proletariado: Parte I - Sombras no Paraíso (Varjoja paratiisissa,1986), dir. Aki Kaurismäki

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Night on Earth

(Jim Jarmusch, 1991)

After his Memphis set trio of short stories, 1989′s Mystery Train, Jim Jarmusch again went a similar route for his follow up. Night on Earth sees the director tell 5 short stories set around the globe, all based around taxi drivers in the dead of the night. 

Bookended by the unmistakable, unforgettable, scene setting work of Tom Waits, the stories all vary in tone and intent, and together in truth make up a sort of disjointed affair, but each one has it qualities, and as a collection of short films, depending on your tastes, there’s something in here to please just about everyone.

The first story set in Los Angeles is the simplest, and most palatable of the bunch, Jarmusch choosing to ease his audience into proceedings, aided greatly by the comfortable presence of the great Gena Rowlands, and the in truth maybe sort of miscast, but so cool it doesn’t matter Winona Ryder. The two of them just click together beautifully, and bring this wonderful sort of anti-fairytale for every girl that never wanted to be a princess to life.

The second story crosses the country to New York City and starts to get bigger, brasher, louder, with (Do the Right Thing reunion!) Giancarlo Esposito and Rosie Perez getting into arguments that probably annoy as many people as they amuse, but thankfully the two of them are held together, and anchored to reality by the great Armin Mueller-Stahl, still something of a newcomer to American movies at the time, lending gentle comedic charms and bags of heart in amidst the madness they create. If the first story was anti-fairytale this one is sort of broad absurdist farce, lent a weight by the strength of its cast, and sort of moody ending.

Next it’s to Paris, and the quiet intensity morphing into clumsy curiosity of Isaach de Bankole in the first of what would be many collaborations with Jarmusch. He and the glorious Beatrice Dalle rebound magically off of one another, each with their own sort of quiet aggression. It’s a notably more low key affair than either of its broader, US set forerunners, but no less funny, no less wistful, and with no lesser an impact at the end.

Then things shift sort of intensely. Up until this point the film to me was pretty much perfect, then things head to Rome, along comes Roberto Benigni. As someone that would consider a huge fan of the man in everything from Down by Law, to Life is Beautiful, that night at the Oscars, and in To Rome with Love, I have to say this is my first time feeling the irritation with him that so many others so regularly seem to. I’m sure there are plenty of fans of this segment that find it’s loud, non stop, brash, crass almost purposeful abrasiveness to be hilarious, but I can’t say that I’m one of them.

Finally to Helsinki, and another gigantic shift in tone. The laughs are still there, but they’re far more gentle, sad, sort of regretful ones, the air of melancholy that hangs over this story makes it feel like Jarmusch was watching too much Bergman, shifted things across the border from Sweden to Finland, and had his own stab at it. To be fair it’s not a bad stab at all, he gets the gentle humour that Bergman was so good at, and he combines it with a soul crushingly, hope destroyingly, quiet tragedy that seems to define so much of the art that’s come out of Scandinavia for over half a century. Matti Pellonpaa nails his central monologue, and Tomi Salmela crushes the ending with the misery raining from every pour of his being, every line he bitterly, tiredly spits out, and every movement he makes.

It’s a hell of a way to end this long night across continents, and leaves Jarmusch’s mostly very amusing movie with a tremendous amount of melancholy at the conclusion that leaves you to ponder all that you’ve witnessed in a way that truthfully the overall movie is probably not quite connected enough, nor quite meaningful enough to earn. What Night on Earth truly ends up being is a wonderfully little dog eared collection of short stories about the many varying creatures of the night, with plenty of quietly hip indie cred. By no stretch of the imagination is it Jarmusch’s best work, but it displays his cool as ice knack for storytelling unequalled by most.

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Matti Pellonpää in  La vie de bohème ( Aki Kaurismäki, 1992)

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Calamari Union (Aki Kaurismäki, 1985)

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kati outinen & matti pellonpaa

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Finland Has a Sports Screw Loose

By Andrew Keh, NY Times, July 27, 2017

HYRYNSALMI, Finland--There’s something strange going on in Finland. Over the past few decades, as it has all but disappeared from the global sports stage, this humble Nordic nation has sort of lost its sports mind.

More than 2,000 people ventured to the remote backwaters of central Finland recently for the 20th annual Swamp Soccer World Championships. If you and your spouse want to compete in the Wife Carrying World Championships, you must come to Finland. The Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships? Finland. The World Berry Picking Championship and the Air Guitar World Championships? Finland and Finland.

“We have some weird hobbies,” said Paivi Kemppainen, 26, a staff member at the swamp soccer competition and master of the understatement.

Just look at swamp soccer in Hyrynsalmi, a place where Jetta can achieve a small level of celebrity over the years. Jetta is a stuffed badger ensconced in a bird cage. She acts as a mascot of sorts for a team of 12 friends who make the seven-hour drive each year from Vihti, near Helsinki, for the competition. They bought the doll seven years ago from a junk store at a highway rest stop, and her fame around the swamp has grown ever since. A couple of years ago, she was interviewed by a local newspaper.

On Saturday morning, the men stood around shivering in threadbare thrift-store suits, which they said were their team’s official warm-up duds. A bottle of vodka was being passed around (their preferred way, apparently, of warming up). It was about 10 o’clock. Soon it would be time for their first game of the day. They set Jetta aside and stripped off their outerwear, revealing skimpy blue wrestling singlets.

Before they treaded into the mud, they were asked a question: Why?

“You can say you’re world champions of swamp soccer,” said Matti Paulavaara, 34, one of the team members, after a contemplative pause. “How many can say that?”

The genesis of swamp soccer was in 1998, when creative town officials in Hyrynsalmi cooked up a festival-like event that would make use of the area’s vast swamplands. Thirteen teams showed up for the first tournament. Since then, the competitive field has grown to about 200 teams.

The recent matches--six-on-six, with 10-minute halves--were played on 20 fields of varying squishiness, spread out over 50 acres of swamp. Finnish rock echoed through the woods.

People striding on seemingly firm ground would disappear suddenly into the soft earth, as if descending a stairway. Some tottered on their hands and knees, like babies. Others stood still, until they were waist-deep in muck. The scores were generally low. Many of the players were drunk.

It’s hard to imagine an uglier version of the Beautiful Game.

“You play, you lose, you win--no one cares,” said Sami Korhonen, 25, of Kajaani, who was playing in the tournament for the ninth time. “The whole game is so tough, you’re totally wiped out when you’re done.”

This streak of strenuous irreverence began sweeping through the quiet Finnish countryside in the mid-1990s, and has only grown since.

In 1995, a Finn named Henri Pellonpaa killed a world-record 21 bugs in five minutes at the Mosquito Killing World Championships in Pelkosenniemi.

The World Sauna Championships were heavily contested in Heinola from 1999 to 2010, until a competitor died from third-degree burns.

More recently, thousands of Finns, most of them teenage girls, have taken up competitive hobbyhorsing, wherein competitors trot and hurdle obstacles while riding the wooden toys.

How did this happen? How did Finland become such fertile ground for wacky sports?

There’s no simple answer, but Finns offer various deep-seated factors, including an enthusiastically outdoorsy populace (that goes slightly stir-crazy during the region’s oppressively dark winter months), widespread public access to recreational spaces, and a continuing relaxation of the traditionally reserved national character. (Also, alcohol.)

Finland is the most thinly populated country in the European Union. It boasts endless forests and almost 200,000 lakes, and its residents enjoy “Everyman rights,” which guarantee public access to most outdoor lands and bodies of water for recreational purposes. The European Commission consistently ranks Finns as among the most physically active people on the continent.

“We’re like a forest people,” said Lassi Hurskainen, 30, a former professional goalkeeper from Joensuu, who visited the swamp soccer tournament while hosting a segment for a Finnish sports television show. “So we come up with games that relate to nature.”

Straddling the Arctic Circle, Finland endures long, punishingly dark winters. Summer therefore marks a period of national catharsis. It helps that the country has an estimated 500,000 summer cottages, and because many Finns receive up to six weeks of vacation time per year, the act of unhurriedly passing time outdoors feels almost like a national birthright.

The mosquito-killing contest, for instance, was invented by a Finnish businessman named Kai Kullervo Salmijarvi as a summertime diversion for his children.

“I think we go a little crazy in the summer,” said Hanna Vehmas, a sports sociologist at the University of Jyvaskyla. “Mix that with alcohol, and maybe we want to compete a little bit.”

In Hyrynsalmi, the swamp soccer games were just one component of the weekend fun. Finns from all over the country--there were also a few teams from Russia--effectively doubled the population of the small town, where road signs warning of crossing moose dot the quiet roadways.

On Friday and Saturday nights, after everyone had cleaned the swamp water off their faces, there were loud rock concerts in the parking lot of a local resort until 2 a.m., when the soft glow of the sun was still visible over the hills.

“This is what I wait for every winter,” said Tapio Velenius, 38, who has been playing swamp soccer since 2005. “It’s tradition in Finland: having beer, no sleep, having fun.”

Velenius, an electrician from Jamsa who is built like a rugby player, was particularly adept at one of the sport’s most important moves: resting on your hands and knees and lifting up one leg, like a dog at a fire hydrant, to kick the ball.

But even the simplest movements in the swamp had Velenius and the other competitors gasping for air.

“You’re at maximum pulse every time you go three meters,” said Roosa Mannonen, 22, a student from Lahti, who entered the women’s competition with a group of friends.

There was a time long ago when Finland was very serious about its sports. Athleticism and physical activity were important concepts around which the country’s identity was built after it gained independence from Russia in 1917.

The first half of the 20th century brought what Pasi Koski, a sports sociologist at the University of Turku, calls the “golden age of Finnish elite sport.” The country won an average of 24 medals at the Summer Olympic Games from 1908 to 1948, punching well above its weight in the global arena. Champion runners, like Hannes Kolehmainen and Paavo Nurmi, achieved heroic status.

They embodied the important Finnish concept of sisu, which loosely translates into some combination of words like determination, patience and hardiness.

The rest of the world caught up, eventually. From 1992 to 2012, Finland took home an average of four medals at the Summer Olympics, and at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, the country won a single medal: the bronze in women’s lightweight boxing.

But if the halcyon days of elite sports in Finland seem like a distant memory, the contours of a new, far weirder era of national sports prosperity have already taken shape, one that reflects the wave of individualism still growing in this young country.

Hence the wife-carrying races (where the winners receive the wife’s weight in beer) and the air guitar contests (hashtag: #makeairnotwar) and the soccer games in cold, coffee-brown swamp water. Hence the celebrity of Jetta, the badger doll.

“We learned to laugh at ourselves,” Kosi said. “What’s so serious?”

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HYRYNSALMI, Finland — There’s some thing extraordinary happening in Finland. Over the beyond few decades, because it has all but disappeared from the global sports activities level, this humble Nordic nation has the type of lost its sports thoughts.

More than 2,000 humans ventured to the far flung backwaters of central Finland recently for the twentieth annual Swamp Soccer World Championships. If you and your partner want to compete in the Wife Carrying World Championships, you have to come to Finland. The Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships? Finland. The World Berry Picking Championship and the Air Guitar World Championships? Finland and Finland.

“We have some weird interests  Finland ,” stated Paivi Kemppainen, 26, a body of workers member on the swamp soccer Sports  Loose opposition and grasp of the understatement.

Just have a look at swamp football in Hyrynsalmi, an area wherein Jetta can obtain a small level of celebrity over time. Jetta is a stuffed badger ensconced in a hen cage. She acts as a mascot of kids for a crew of 12 pals who make the seven-hour force each year from Vihti, close to Helsinki, for the competition. They offered the doll seven years ago from a junk shop at a dual carriageway rest prevent, and her reputation around the swamp has grown ever since. A couple of years ago, she changed into interviewed with the aid of a neighborhood newspaper.

Continue reading the principal story On Saturday morning, the guys stood around shivering in threadbare thrift-save fits, which they said have been their group’s legitimate heat-up duds. A bottle of vodka changed into being handed round (their preferred way, reputedly, of warming up). It turned into approximately 10 o’clock. Soon it might be time for their first recreation of the day. They set Jetta apart and stripped of their outerwear, revealing skimpy blue wrestling singlets.

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Left, Petra Koskela drinking wine at the Ukkohalla inn, wherein many gamers within the Swamp Soccer Championships stayed; proper, a player’s shoe is held on with tape to hold it from sticking in the muck. Credit Janne Körkkö for The New York Times Before they trodden into the mud, they have been requested a query: Why?

“You can say you’re world champions of swamp soccer,” said Matti Paulavaara, 34, one of the crew members, after a contemplative pause. “How many can say that?”

The genesis of swamp football changed into in 1998, when creative metropolis officers in Hyrynsalmi cooked up a competition-like occasion that might employ the region’s great swamplands. Thirteen groups confirmed up for the first tournament. Since then, the aggressive discipline has grown to about 2 hundred groups.

The latest fits — six-on-six, with 10-minute halves — were performed on 20 fields of varying squishiness, spread out over 50 acres of swamp. Finnish rock echoed thru the woods.

People striding on the seemingly firm ground would disappear unexpectedly into the smooth earth, as though descending a stairway. Some tottered on their palms and knees, like infants. Others stood nonetheless, till they have been waist-deep in the muck. The rankings were normally low. Many of the players were inebriated.

It’s tough to imagine an uglier model of the Beautiful Game.

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Even the best movements are extra hard in swamp soccer. Credit Janne Körkkö for The New York Times “You play, you lose, you win — no one cares,” said Sami Korhonen, 25, of Kajaani, who became gambling within the match for the 9th time. “The entire sport is so difficult, you’re definitely worn out while you’re completed.”

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This streak of strenuous irreverence began sweeping through the quiet Finnish geographical region inside the mid-Nineteen Nineties and has most effective grown considering the fact that.

In 1995, a Finn named Henri Pellonpaa killed a world-record 21 bugs in 5 minutes at the Mosquito Killing World Championships in Pelkosenniemi.

The World Sauna Championships were heavily contested in Heinola from 1999 to 2010 until a competitor died from 1/3-diploma burns.

More currently, hundreds of Finns, maximum of them teenage girls, have taken up competitive hobby horsing, in which competition trot and hurdle barriers while riding the timber toys.

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Finland was as soon as ambitious in traditional sports activities, however, has currently taken a hard pivot closer to hosting weird competitions. Clockwise from top left: hobby-horsing championships in April; the 2009 Sauna World Championships; Wife Carrying World Championship this month; the 2014 Air Guitar World Championships. Credit Clockwise from pinnacle left: Rex Features, through Associated Press; Heikki Saukkomaa/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images; Timo Hartikainen/Lehtikuva, thru Associated Press; Vesa Ranta/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images How did this appear? How did Finland grow to be such fertile ground for wacky sports?

There’s no easy solution, however, Finns offer diverse deep-seated elements, such as an enthusiastically outdoorsy populace (that goes barely stir-crazy all through the place’s oppressively dark winter months), the sizeable public gets admission to recreational areas, and a persevering with rest of the historically reserved countrywide man or woman. (Also, alcohol.)

Finland is the maximum thinly populated united states within the European Union. It boasts endless forests and almost 200,000 lakes, and its citizens revel in “Everyman rights,” which guarantees public get admission to maximum out of doors lands and our bodies of water for recreational purposes. The European Commission continually ranks Finns as a few of the maximum bodily energetic people at the continent.

“We’re like a forest people,” stated Lassi Hurskainen, 30, a former professional goalkeeper from Joensuu, who visited the swamp soccer tournament whilst website hosting a section for a Finnish sports activities television display. “So we provide you with video games that relate to nature.”

Straddling the Arctic Circle, Finland endures long, punishingly darkish winters. Summer consequently marks a duration of country wide catharsis. It enables that u. S . Has a predicted 500,000 summer time cottages, and due to the fact many Finns receive up to 6 weeks of vacation time per yr, the act of unhurriedly passing time outdoors feels almost like a country wide birthright.

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A lake on the Ukkohalla motel. Finland boasts endless forests, extra than two hundred,000 lakes and 24 hours of daylight at some stage in some summer time months. Credit Janne Körkkö for The New York Times The mosquito-killing contest, as an example, changed into invented by way of a Finnish businessman named Kai Kullervo Salmijarvi as a summertime diversion for his children.

“I think we pass a bit loopy inside the summer,” said Hanna Vehmas, a sports activities sociologist at the University of Jyvaskyla. “Mix that with alcohol, and perhaps we need to compete a little bit.”

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HYRYNSALMI, Finland — There’s something bizarre happening in Finland. Over the beyond few decades, because it has all however disappeared from the worldwide sports activities degree, this humble Nordic country has kind of misplaced its sports activities thoughts.

More than 2,000 humans ventured to the far away backwaters of primary Finland lately for the 20 the annual Swamp Soccer World Championships. If you and your spouse need to compete with the Wife Carrying World Championships, you have to come to Finland. The Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships? Finland. The World Berry Picking Championship and the Air Guitar World Championships? Finland and Finland.

“We have some bizarre pastimes,” stated Paivi Kemppainen, 26, a body of workers member at the swamp football competition and master of the understatement.

Just take a look at swamp soccer in Hyrynsalmi, a place wherein Jetta can obtain a small stage of celebrity over time. Jetta is a stuffed badger ensconced in a chook cage. She acts as a mascot of types for a group of 12 friends who make the seven-hour drive every 12 months from Vihti, close to Helsinki, for the competition. They sold the doll seven years in the past from a junk sale at a dual carriageway relaxation prevent, and her reputation across the swamp has grown ever since. A couple of years ago, she turned into interviewed by a nearby newspaper.

On Saturday morning, the guys stood around shivering in threadbare thrift-shop fits, which they stated have been their team’s legit warm-up duds. A bottle of vodka became being exceeded round (their desired manner, apparently, of warming up). It became about 10 o’clock. Soon it’d be time for their first sport of the day. They set Jetta aside and stripped of their outerwear, revealing skimpy blue wrestling singlets.

Before they trodden into the mud, they had been asked a question: Why?

“You can say you’re international champions of swamp football,” stated Matti Paulavaara, 34, one of the group contributors, after a contemplative pause. “How many can say that?”

The genesis of swamp soccer became in 1998, while creative metropolis officials in Hyrynsalmi cooked up a pageant-like occasion that could make use of the vicinity’s giant swamplands. Thirteen groups showed up for the primary event. Since then, the aggressive discipline has grown to about two hundred groups.

The current matches — six-on-six, with 10-minute halves — have been performed on 20 fields of varying squishiness, unfold out over 50 acres of swamp. Finnish rock echoed via the woods.

People striding on a reputedly firm floor would disappear into the soft earth as if descending a stairway. Some tottered on their palms and knees, like infants. Others stood nevertheless, till they have been waist-deep in the muck. The scores have been usually low. Many of the players had been under the influence of alcohol.

It’s tough to imagine an uglier version of the Beautiful Game.

“You play, you lose, you win — no one cares,” stated Sami Korhonen, 25, of Kajaani, who changed into gambling in the event for the ninth time. “The complete recreation is so tough, you’re completely worn out when you’re completed.”

This streak of strenuous irreverence commenced sweeping through the quiet Finnish countryside in the mid-Nineties and has most effective grown in view that.

In 1995, a Finn named Henri Pellonpaa killed an international-report 21 insects in 5 minutes at the Mosquito Killing World Championships in Pelkosenniemi.

The World Sauna Championships had been closely contested in Heinola from 1999 to 2010, still, a competitor died from 0.33-degree burns.

More recently, hundreds of Finns, maximum of them teenage ladies, have taken up aggressive hobby horsing, in which competition trot and hurdle boundaries while using the timber toys. How did this manifest? How did Finland grow to be such fertile floor for wacky sports activities?

There’s no easy answer, however, Finns provide various deep-seated elements, which include an enthusiastically outdoorsy population (that goes slightly stir-loopy all through the region’s oppressively dark winter months), the extensive public gets admission to recreational spaces, and a persevering with a relaxation of the historically reserved country wide character. (Also, alcohol.)

Finland is the maximum thinly populated u. S . A . Inside the European Union. It boasts infinite forests and almost 2 hundred,000 lakes, and its citizens revel in “Everyman rights,” which assure public get entry to maximum out of doors lands and bodies of water for leisure purposes. The European Commission always ranks Finns as some of the most physically lively humans on the continent.

“We’re like a wooded area humans,” said Lassi Hurskainen, 30, a former professional goalkeeper from Joensuu, who visited the swamp soccer tournament whilst website hosting a section for a Finnish sports activities tv show. “So we come up with video games that relate to nature.”

Straddling the Arctic Circle, Finland endures long, punishingly darkish winters. Summer consequently marks a length of country wide catharsis. It enables that the united states have an estimated 500,000 summer season cottages, and due to the fact many Finns receive up to 6 weeks of excursion time in line with the year, the act of unhurriedly passing time exterior feels almost like a countrywide birthright.