Andrei Tarkovsky in memoriam

"Andrei Tarkovsky Sculpted in Time". Born 4 April 1932 Zavrazhye, Ivanovo Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Died 29 Dec 1986 Paris, France. I wrote a review of Tarkovsky's literary credo, Sculpting in Time (1986), for Helsingin Sanomat. We knew Tarkovsky was in treatment for terminal cancer and postponed publication, thus making the review his obituary. Please click on the image to expand it. For easier reading please visit the Helsingin Sanomat website / Näköislehti [Facsimile] / Aikakone [Time Machine] to access the 30.12.1986 edition of the newspaper. Or try this link: https://nakoislehti.hs.fi/9acfbe0f-f926-4ce7-8231-b2425e3f5b17/13

Film concert Napoléon vu par Abel Gance 1986 Helsinki Festival, Finlandia Hall, Kevin Brownlow restoration, conductor Carl Davis, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra

Napoléon vu par Abel Gance (FR 1927). Cover of the souvenir programme in Helsinki, 6-7 September 1986. A4, bilingual in Finnish and Swedish, 24 p.

The dress rehearsal was on 6 Sep 1986.

The film concert was on 7 Sep 1986.

The start of the film concert on 7 Sep was postponed from 14 pm till 16 pm at short notice due to force majeure. Urho Kekkonen (1900-1986), President of Finland in 1956-1982, died on 31 August 1986. His funeral cortege passed the Finlandia Hall on Mannerheimintie at the time when the film concert was originally scheduled.

The actual program of the film concert:

Part I  16.00-17.50

Intermission 20 min

Part II  18.10-19.15

Intermission one hour

Part III 20.15-21.25

Intermission 20 min

Part IV  21.45-23.00

320 min (5 h 20 min)

The screen was 14,5 m wide and 7,5 m high.

The screening was in 35 mm and for the triptych sequences in 35 mm and 70 mm.

The projection speed was 20 fps except 18 fps for Brienne.

The technical director of the projection was Charles Beddow (British Film Institute), assisted by Andrew Youdell (BFI).

Carl Davis was assisted by Paul Wing.

The event took place in the presence of Kevin Brownlow, to whom we paid a tribute at Cinema Orion.

The event was organized by Helsinki Festival in collaboration with the Finnish Film Archive. In charge on behalf of the Helsinki Festival was Veijo Varpio. The primus motor was Peter von Bagh. After he left the Finnish Film Archive in 1985, I followed as the contactperson.

The score arranged and composed by Carl Davis.

Beethoven - J. S. Bach - Cherubini - Dittersdorf - Gluck - Gossec - Gretry - Haydn - Mehul - Monsigni - Mozart.

"La Marseillaise", "Carmagnole", "Ça ira" and other traditional and period songs and tunes.

Part I

Brienne - French Revolution 1789 - La Marseillaise - Return to Corsica and Escape from Corsica - from now on there is but one home: France.

Part II

The Siege of Toulon

Part III

The Terror - Corday assassinates Marat - Napoléon imprisoned in Antibes - Danton to the guillotine - death sentences to Napoléon and Joséphine - Thermidor: Barras, Robespierre overthrown, end of the Terror - Napoléon refuses to fight the Royalists in La Vendée and is demoted to the topographic bureau of the army, drafting an attack plan to Italy - France in ruins - Royalists threaten the government, Barras engages Napoléon during Vendémiaire - Napoléon crushes the counter-revolution - Bal des Victimes - Napoléon in thrall of Joséphine

Part IV

Napoléon promoted to commander of the Army of the Interior - during the disarmament a young boy visits Napoléon and asks for the sword of his father who was executed during the terror: Vicomte de Beauharnais who sacrificed himself to save his wife Joséphine, a mistress of Barras - Barras and Joséphine make an agreement: Napoléon is promoted to the commander of the army of Italy, and Joséphine agrees to marry Napoléon - the Forgotten Wedding: Napoléon forgets his own wedding and arrives hours late to the ceremony - the Double Wedding Night: the tender love of Napoléon and Joséphine and the imaginary union of Violine Fleuri with her Napoléon memorabilia - at the National Convention, Napoléon meets the ghosts of the Revolution - the beginning of the Italian Campaign: the army is demoralized, the officers treat the upstart from Paris with condescension - but Napoléon instils to his army, Les Mendiants de la Gloire, an invincible fighting spirit.

Berlin Film Festival 1986

Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masina were guests of honour at the Berlin Film Festival in 1986. Ginger and Fred was their last film together. At the press conference the moderators and the journalists were so clueless that the couple took the situation in their own hands and gave us a perfect show. I was struck by the high pitch of Fellini's voice, and the deep grumble of Masina's.

14 Feb 1986  Kid Glove Killer. US 1942. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
15 Feb 1986  Ginger e Fred. D: Federico Fellini. Gloria. In the presence of Federico Fellini & Giulietta Masina.
15 Feb 1986  Redes. 1935. D: Zinnemann & Hernandez. Cinema Paris.
15 Feb 1986  Benjy. 1951. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
15 Feb 1986  That Mothers Might Live. 1938. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
15 Feb 1986  From Here to Eternity. US 1953. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris. In the presence of Fred Zinnemann hosted by Wim Wenders.
15 Feb 1986  Eyes in the Night. US 1942. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
16 Feb 1986  Act of Violence. US 1949. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
16 Feb 1986  While America Sleeps. US 1939. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
17 Feb 1986  La historia oficial. 1985. D: Luis Puenzo. Delphi.
17 Feb 1986  The Member of the Wedding. US 1952. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
18 Feb 1986  Flucht in den Norden. DE/FI 1986. D: Ingemo Engström. Gloria. Long version.
18 Feb 1986  Caravaggio. GB 1985. D: Derek Jarman. Gloria.
18 Feb 1986  Teresa. US 1951. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
18 Feb 1986  Shoah. D: Claude Lanzmann. Screenings sold out, I watched a review screener. Even so, the overwhelming experience of the festival.
19 Feb 1986  Akhalgazrda kompozitoris mogzauroba / Nuoren säveltäjän matka. SU 1985. D: Giorgi Shengelaia. Zoo-Palast.
19 Feb 1986  Luise, Königin von Preussen. DE 1931. D: Carl Froelich. Cinema Paris.
20 Feb 1986  Los dias de junio. 1985. D: A. Fischerman. Arsenal.
20 Feb 1986  Ganz unten. DE 1986. D: J. Gfrörer & Günter Wallraff. Atelier am Zoo.
20 Feb 1986  A Hatful of Rain. US 1957. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
20 Feb 1986  The Story of Dr. Carver. US 1936. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
20 Feb 1986  The Sundowners. US 1960. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
20 Feb 1986  Le Brasier ardent. FR 1923. D. Ivan Mosjoukine. Cinema Paris.
21 Feb 1986  A Zed & Two Noughts. GB 1985. D: Peter Greenaway.
21 Feb 1986  A Man for All Seasons. GB 1966. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
21 Feb 1986  The Day of the Jackal. 1973. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
21 Feb 1986  High Noon. US 1952. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
22 Feb 1986  Das Haus am Fluss. DE 1986. D: Roland Gräf. Gloria.
22 Feb 1986  Karins ansikte. SE 1985. D: Ingmar Bergman. Gloria.
22 Feb 1986  L'Aube. 1985. D: Miklós Jancsó. Gloria.
22 Feb 1986  Behold a Pale Horse. 1964. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
22 Feb 1986  Julia. 1977. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
22 Feb 1986  Das alte Gesetz. DE 1923. D: E. A. Dupont. Cinema Paris / Henny Porten. 128 min
23 Feb 1986  Out of Africa. D: Sydney Pollack. Gloria. 161 min
23 Feb 1986  Zuflucht. DE 1928. D: Carl Froelich. Cinema Paris / Henny Porten.
23 Feb 1986  The Search. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
24 Feb 1986  Five Days One Summer. 1982. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
24 Feb 1986  The Men. D: Fred Zinnemann. Cinema Paris.
24 Feb 1986  Nem tudo e verdade / It's Not All True. BR 1985. D: Rogerio Sganzerla. Arsenal.
24 Feb 1986  Dokument Fanny och Alexander. SE 1985. D: Ingmar Bergman. 128 min. Arsenal.
25 Feb 1986  A Nun's Story. 1959. D: Fred Zinnemann. 149 min. Cinema Paris.
25 Feb 1986  Familie Buchholz. DE 1944. D: Carl Froelich. Cinema Paris / Henny Porten.
25 Feb 1986  Carola Lamberti – eine vom Zirkus. DE 1954. D: Hans Müller. Cinema Paris / Henny Porten.
25 Feb 1986  The Seventh Cross. US 1944. D: Fred Zinnemann.
25 Feb 1986  Xiao cheng zhi chun / Spring In a Small Town. CN 1948. D: Fei Mu. Arsenal.
26 Feb 1986  Trouble In Mind. D: Alan Rudolph. Gloria.
26 Feb 1986  Skandal um Eva. DE 1930. D: G. W. Pabst. Cinema Paris / Henny Porten.

January 1986 West Berlin

Marlen Khutsiev: Mne dvadtsat let / I Am Twenty (SU 1965).

4 Jan 1986  Paisà. IT 1946. D: Roberto Rossellini.
5 Jan 1986  L'amore. IT 1948. D: Roberto Rossellini.
7 Jan 1986  Monte Carlo. US 1930. D: Ernst Lubitsch.
10 Jan 1986  The Naked Jungle. US 1954. D: Byron Haskin.
12 Jan 1986  Spartacus. D: Stanley Kubrick. The beginning.
15 Jan 1986  Viaggio in Italia. D: Roberto Rossellini.
19 Jan 1986  Svengali. US 1931. D: Archie Mayo.
Tex Avery x 18.
21 Jan 1986  Victory. US 1940. D: John Cromwell. Video.
22 Jan 1986  Lo straniero. D: Luchino Visconti. Deutsche Fassung. Klick.
23 Jan 1986  The Return of Dr. X. D: Vincent Sherman. Video.
23 Jan 1986  Dante's Inferno. D: Harry Lachman. The beginning. Video.
23 Jan 1986  Gas-s-s-s. D: Roger Corman. Sputnik.
23 Jan 1986  Wild Angels. US 1966. D: Roger Corman. Sputnik. Academy format.
25 Jan 1986  Journey Into Fear. D: Norman Foster. Deutsche Fassung. Video.
25 Jan 1986  Mne dvadtsat let. D: Marlen Khutsiev. Deutsche Fassung. Arsenal.