December 1987 Helsinki

Kira Muratova: Korotkie vstretshi / Brief Encounters (SU-UA 1967) starring Nina Ruslanova, Kira Muratova and Vladimir Vysotski. Produced by Odessa Film Studios.

2 Dec 1987  Une femme est une femme / Nainen on aina nainen (FR 1961). D: Jean-Luc Godard. SEA Orion 35 mm
4 Dec 1987  Desiderio (IT 1943/1946). D: Roberto Rossellini, Marcello Pagliero. SEA Orion 35 mm, our nitrate, 80 min version
6 Dec 1987  Two Lane Blacktop (US 1971). D: Monte Hellman. TV3, not scope
7 Dec 1987  Helsinki Festival: Veijo Varpio, Bo Karsten
8 Dec 1987  Korotkie vstretshi / Brief Encounters / Lyhyitä kohtaamisia (SU-UA 1967). D: Kira Muratova. SEA Orion 35 mm from GFF, translated by Pentti Stranius, the first Muratova screening in Finland. Produced by Odessa Film Studios.
9 Dec 1987  Die 3-Groschen-Oper (DE 1931). D: G.W. Pabst + Lotte Lenya, video copy M.V.
10 Dec 1987  Dolgie provody / Long Goodbyes / Pitkiä jäähyväisiä (SU-UA 1972). D: Kira Muratova. SEA Orion, 35 mm from GFF, translated by Pentti Stranius. PC: Odessa Film Studios.
11 Dec 1987  Elegija (SU 1987). D: Aleksandr Sokurov. SEA Orion 35 mm. Chaliapin.
11 Dec 1987  Kulager / Trizna / Тризна / Muistojuhla (SU-Kazakstan-Turkmenistan 1972). D: Bulat Mansurov / Boulat Mansourov / Булат Мансуров. SEA Orion 35 mm. The 1982 version 78 min
11 Dec 1987  Le petit soldat / Pikku sotilas (FR 1960). D: Jean-Luc Godard. SEA Orion 35 mm
12 Dec 1987  Evakko (FI 1956). D: Ville Salminen. SEA Orion 35 mm
12 Dec 1987  Tuntematon sotilas / The Unknown Soldier (FI 1985). D: Rauni Mollberg. TV version 3h 50 min - I catch the final 3 hours
13 Dec 1987  Three On a Couch / Hurmuri-Jerry (US 1966). SEA Orion 35 mm
13 Dec 1987  Visiting TV3 in Pasila
13 Dec 1987  Bande à part / Laittomat (FR 1964). D: Jean-Luc Godard. SEA Orion 35 mm
14 Dec 1987  The Last Emperor / Viimeinen keisari (1987). D: Bernardo Bertolucci. Bristol, press screening, 165 min
15 Dec 1987  House of Games / Pelin henki (US 1987). D: David Mamet. Bristol, press screening
17 Dec 1987  Tough Guys Don't Dance / Kovat kundit eivät tanssi (US 1987). D: Norman Mailer. Bristol, press screening
19 Dec 1987  Caught in a Cabaret (US 1914). Charles Chaplin. SEA viewing table 35 mm
19 Dec 1987  Mabel's Busy Day (US 1914). Charles Chaplin. SEA viewing table 35 mm
19 Dec 1987  The Property Man (US 1914). Charles Chaplin. SEA viewing table 35 mm
20 Dec 1987  The Masquerader (US 1914). Charles Chaplin. SEA viewing table 35 mm
20 Dec 1987  Gentlemen of Nerve (US 1914). Charles Chaplin. SEA viewing table 35 mm
20 Dec 1987  A Night Out (US 1915). Charles Chaplin. SEA viewing table 35 mm
20 Dec 1987  A Jitney Elopement (US 1915). Charles Chaplin. SEA viewing table 35 mm
20 Dec 1987  The Big Mouth / Sammakkomies koukussa (US 1967). D: Jerry Lewis. SEA Orion 35 mm
22 Dec 1987  By the Sea (US 1915). Charles Chaplin. SEA viewing table 35 mm
22 Dec 1987  Carmen (US 1916). Charles Chaplin. SEA viewing table 35 mm
22 Dec 1987  Urgh! A Music War (GB 1981). F: Derek Burbidge. SEA Orion 35 mm. I catch the second half (Cramps, 999, etc., quite good)
22 Dec 1987  The Private Life of Henry VIII (GB 1932). D: Alexander Korda. SEA Orion 35 mm nitrate
23 Dec 1987  Train Helsinki- Tampere, taxi Tampere-Pirkkala
23 Dec 1987  Sans soleil (FR 1983). D: Chris Marker. TV. Finnish tv premiere, direct to tv in Finland.
25 Dec 1987  TV: Der Alte, Dynasty.
27 Dec 1987  Back to Helsinki
28 Dec 1987  The Witches of Eastwick / Noidat (US 1987). D: George Miller. Nordia
29 Dec 1987  Made in U.S.A. (FR 1966). D: Jean-Luc Godard. SEA Orion 35 mm
30 Dec 1987  Kiss of Death / Kuoleman suudelma (US 1947). D: Henry Hathaway. SEA 35 mm, our preview
30 Dec 1987  This Is Spinal Tap / Hei me rokataan (US 1983). D: Rob Reiner. SEA Orion 35 mm

London Film Festival 1987

Pedro Almodóvar: La ley del deseo / The Law of Desire (ES 1987).

19 Nov 1987  Meeting Markku Salmi, Richenda Walford and Elaine Burrows at the BFI.
20 Nov 1987  Meeting Charles Beddow, Sheila Whittaker, Jim Hickey, Wayne Drew, Wendy Hsiao-Wang and Paul Willemen at the NFT.
20 Nov 1987  La famiglia / The Family (IT 1987). D: Ettore Scola. NFT 1
20 Nov 1987  Video UK. ICA
- Rod Iverson: Agent Orange: Policy of Poison (GB 1987).
- Stephen Todd: I Was Dreaming Too (GB 1987).
- Rosalind Hewett: Crying and Not Crying (GB 1987).
- Nicola Baldwin: Falling Under (GB 1987).
- The Molotov Brothers: Noise into Pictures (GB 1987). *
20 Nov 1987  Do ma dan / Peking Opera Blues (HK 1986). D: Tsui Hark. ICA
20 Nov 1987  Someone to Love (US 1988). D: Henry Jaglom. NFT 1
21 Nov 1987  Film concert Bronenosets Potemkin / Battleship Potemkin (SU 1925). D: Sergei Eisenstein. QEH. Edmund Meisel music live - Fearon - Brabant
21 Nov 1987  On the Black Hill (GB 1987). D: Andrew Grieve. NFT 1
21 Nov 1987  Video for TV. ICA
- Steps (US/GB 1987). D: Zbigniew Rybczynski. Deconstruction of the Odessa Steps. A parody, but in which way.
- Time Code
- Invisible TV (GB 1987). D: Jean McClements, Tim Morrison.
21 Nov 1987  Dear America. NFT 1
22 Nov 1987  Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (US 1987). D: Taylor Hackford. Empire Two.
22 Nov 1987  Swan Song. ICA
22 Nov 1987  The Puppetoon Movie. ICA
22 Nov 1987  New York Video. ICA
- Ken Kobland, Wooster Group (Elizabeth LeCompte), The Kitchen Center.: Flaubert Dreams of Travel But the Illness of His Mother Prevents It (US 1986).
- Davids Daniels, The Kitchen Center: Buzz Box (US 1987). 

- Hey Bud

- Dara Birnbaum: Damnation of Faust: Evocation (US 1980).
- Smith: Mike
- Tom Bowes, The Kitchen Center: Two Moon July (US 1987).
- Laurie Anderson, John Lurie, David Byrne
22 Nov 1987 I send my review of London Film Festival I for Helsingin Sanomat per telefax
23 Nov 1987  Poussière d'ange / Angel Dust / Enkelin sirpale (FR 1987). D: Edouard Niermans. NFT 1
23 Nov 1987  Un zoo la nuit / Night Zoo / Öinen eläintarha (CA 1987). D: Jean-Claude Lauzon. NFT 1
23 Nov 1987  With Kaarle Stewen, we meet David Meeker and Elaine Burrows. A walk in Soho with Markku Salmi, checking locations of Peeping Tom.
23 Nov 1987  La ley del deseo / The Law of Desire. NFT 1
23 Nov 1987  Cry Freedom / Huuto vapaudelle (GB/Zimbabwe/US 1987). R: Richard Attenborough. Empire. In the presence of Richard Attenborough. Meeting Päivi Hartzell (here for Lumikuningatar).
24 Nov 1987  The Kitchen Toto / Vapauden julmat kasvot (GB 1987). D: Harry Hook. Rank Preview Theatre, 127 Wardour Street
24 Nov 1987  4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle / Reinette ja Mirabellen neljä seikkailua (FR 1986). D: Éric Rohmer. NFT 1
24 Nov 1987  Housekeeping / Sylvien talo (US 1987). D: Bill Forsyth. Prince Charles
25 Nov 1987  The Best of World Animation. NFT 1
- Lestocart & Coussoneau: Annecy Logo (1987)
- Hickey: An Inside Job (1987)

- Pojar, Drouin: L'Heure des anges (1986)
- Hinton: Giordano (1985)
- Kanev: Amachan, sviat (1986)
- Manuli: Piu uno meno uno (1987)
- Shorina: Dver (1986)
- Lasseter: Luxo, Jr. (1986)
- Krumme: Seiltänzer (1986)
- Peränne: Isä ja poika (1987)
- Back: L'Homme qui plantait des arbres (1987)

25 Nov 1987  The Best of British Animation. NFT 1
- Steveley: Strangers in Paradise (1987)
- Rimminen: Blind Justice (1987)
- Ashey, Newitt: The Jump (1987)
- Cawdery: Heart and Stars (1986)

- Goleszowski: Barefootin' (1987)

- Rock Garden
- Austin, Hayes: Binky and Boo (1987)
- de Vere: Black Dog (1987)
- Hüseyin: Rockie, Sten et Pierre (1985)
- Andrew: Dolphins (1987)
- World Safari
- Berol
- Little Devil
- Soldiers

- South Bank Show
- Capital City
- Copperhead Cider
- Ashworth: The Web (1987)
- Nina Simone: My Baby Just Cares For Me
25 Nov 1987  Royal Charity Premiere: Film Concert Ben-Hur (US 1925). D: Fred Niblo. Carl Davis conducts the premiere of his new score. Palladium. 145 min + interval. Kevin Brownlow
26 Nov 1987  Manhunter / Psykopaatin jäljillä (US 1986). D: Michael Mann. Warner. In the presence of Michael Mann. The first Hannibal Lecter movie
26 Nov 1987  I send my review of London Film Festival II for Helsingin Sanomat per telefax.
27 Nov 1987  A day off with Markku Salmi, Sakari Toiviainen, Riitta Toiviainen.
28 Nov 1987  Out of Order (1987). D: Jonnie Turpie. . NFT 1
28 Nov 1987  King Lear (1987). D: Jean-Luc Godard. NFT 1
28 Nov 1987  Soigne ta droite (1987). D: Jean-Luc Godard. NFT 1. Jean-Luc Godard interviewed by Colin McCabe.
28 Nov 1987  Surprise film: Someone to Watch Over Me / Erään murhan varjossa (US 1987). D: Ridley Scott. NFT 1
28 Nov 1987  Brand New Day (1987). D: Amos Gitai. NFT 1. Eurythmics. Amos Gitai interviewed
29 Nov 1987  RoboCop (US 1987). D: Paul Verhoeven. Uncut 103 min. Leicester Square Theatre
29 Nov 1987  Clandestino destino (MX 1987). D: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo. NFT 1
29 Nov 1987 With Antti Lindqvist in the chaos in Heathrow. Fog. Gatwick.

29-30 Nov 1987  Flight London-Helsinki, arrival at 3 am, with 4 hours delay.

30 Nov 1987  At 3-5 am, I write my last festival report, London Film Festival III, for Helsingin Sanomat and take it to Ludwiginkatu. 

November 1987

Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay: Street of Crocodiles (GB 1986).

Separate entry: London Film Festival 1987.

1 Nov 1987  Train from Helsinki to Tampere, bus from Tampere to Pirkkala.
1 Nov 1987  Peter von Bagh: Ennen elokuvaa: Out of the Past. TV3
1 Nov 1987  Out of the Past / Menneisyyden varjot (US 1947). [X] TV3
1-4 Nov 1987  Preparing a lecture on the stars.
4 Nov 1987  Lecture: Stars. Tampere University: täydennyskoulutuskeskus
4 Nov 1987  Meeting Jukka Sihvola
4 Nov 1987  Train from Tampere to Helsinki
4 Nov 1987  I help Risto Raitio to view The New Centurions, Murder in the Dressing Room
4 Nov 1987  Varieté (DE 1925). D: E. A. Dupont. SEA Orion 35 mm. I speak the live earphone commentary in Finnish
5 Nov 1987  Zur Chronik von Grieshuus (DE 1925). D: Arthur von Gerlach. SEA Orion 35 mm
6 Nov 1987  Stromboli (IT 1949). D: Roberto Rossellini. SEA Orion 35 mm
6 Nov 1987  Alchemists of the Surreal - curated by Jayne Pilling, BFI. SEA Orion
- Jan Švankmajer: Poslední trik pana Schwarcewalldea a pana Edgara (CZ 1964)
- Byt / The Flat (CZ 1968)
- Možnosti dialogu (CZ 1982)
- Do pivnice / Down to the Cellar (CZ 1968)
- Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay: Street of Crocodiles (GB 1986)
- Zbigniew Rybczyński: Tango (PL 1979)
7 Nov 1987  Tagebuch einer Verlorenen / Kadotetun päiväkirja (DE ). D: G. W. Pabst. SEA viewing table, 35 mm
8 Nov 1987  Berlin - die Sinfonie einer Grossstadt (DE 1927). D: Walther Ruttmann. SEA Orion 35 mm
10 Nov 1987  Man Ray special screening
10 Nov 1987  Dirnentragödie (DE 1927). D: Bruno Rahn. [3]. SEA Orion 35 mm. I speak the live earphone commentary in Finnish
11 Nov 1987  Asphalt (DE 1929). D: Joe May. SEA Orion 35 mm
12 Nov 1987  Risto Raitio views La Neige était sale
13 Nov 1987  Polizeibericht Überfall, 25 UPA cartoons, Berlin Alexanderplatz (Jutzi)
14 Nov 1987  Mädchen in Uniform (DE 1931). D: Leontine Sagan. SEA 35 mm
14 Nov 1987  Die verkaufte Braut (DE 1932). D: Max Ophuls. SEA 35 mm
15 Nov 1987  Morgenrot (DE 1933). D: Gustav Ucicky. SEA 35 mm
17 Nov 1987  Berlin Alexanderplatz (DE 1931). D: Piel Jutzi. [X] SEA Orion 35 mm
18 Nov 1987  Flight from Helsinki to London

October 1987 Helsinki

Arthur von Gerlach: Vanina (DE 1922). Based on Stendhal. With Asta Nielsen (Vanina) and Paul Hartmann (Octavio). At the time, only a fantastic colour fragment had survived, but it was electrifying and unforgettable. Courtesy Enno Patalas / Münchner Filmmuseum.

I viewed many films on the viewing table to prepare program notes and to transcribe the dialogue / the intertitles. We had spoken earphone commentary before electronic subtitling was introduced in 1999. I myself often spoke the earphone commentary to German films. Many German classics of the 1920s had no intertitles (most famously, Der letzte Mann). Many German classics were destroyed in Germany during Hitler, and prints surviving abroad had French, English, etc. intertitles.

1 Oct 1987  I send my article "Dr. Kracauer's Cabinet" to the anthology Elokuvateorian valtavirtauksia [Main Currents in Film Theory]
1 Oct 1987  Nju (DE 1924). D: Paul Czinner. English / Spanish intertitles. SEA viewing table 35 mm, together with VP Makkonen
1 Oct 1987  Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Pentti Pajukallio at SEA, one of our most senior and venerable colleagues, at Ankkuri, Pursimiehenkatu / Kankurinkatu, Punavuori
3 Oct 1987  Onni pyörii (FI 1942). D: Toivo Särkkä. SEA Orion 35 mm
4 Oct 1987  La Roue (FR 1920-1923). D: Abel Gance. SEA Orion 35 mm. /18 fps/ 5 h. Cin. fr. With intermission. Meeting Matti Suurpää.
5 Oct 1987  Les Affaires publiques (FR 1934). D: Robert Bresson. SEA viewing table 35 mm. Bresson's first film has recently been redisovered, to the dismay of the director, as we learn from Vincent Pinel.
6 Oct 1987  Les Affaires publiques (FR 1934). D: Robert Bresson. SEA Orion 35 mm. Cin.fr. [2]
6 Oct 1987 Le Reflet de Claude Mercœur (FR 1923). D: Julien Duvivier. SEA Orion 35 mm. Cin. fr. [2]
6 Oct 1987  M*A*S*H (US 1970). D: Robert Altman. SEA Orion 35 mm
6 Oct 1987  This Is Elvis (US 1981). D: Malcolm Leo, Andrew Solt. SEA Orion 35 mm. (the beginning)
7 Oct 1987  Syncopation Animation - programme curated by Jayne Pilling (BFI). NB: Annabel Jankel & Rocky Morton = Cucumber Studios
- Susan Young: Carnival (GB 1985)
- Len Lye: A Colour Box (GB 1935)
- Oskar Fischinger: Studie Nr. 6 (DE 1929)
- Dave Fleischer: Betty Boop in Snow-White (US 1933)
- Norman McLaren: Boogie Doodle (CA 1940)
- Oskar Fischinger: Allegretto (DE 1936)
- Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren: Begone Dull Care (CA 1944)
- The Art of Noise: Close (to the Edit) - Version 2 (GB 1985). D: Matt Forrest. [Three music videos were made to the track, the first one by Zbigniew Rybczinski. This is the second one.]
- Len Lye: Musical Poster No. 1 (GB 1942)
- Friz Freleng: Three Little Bops (US 1957)
- Elvis Costello: Accidents Will Happen (1979). D: Annabel Jankel & Rocky Morton
- Tom Tom Club: Genius of Love (US 1982). D: Annabel Jankel & Rocky Morton
- Tom Tom Club: Pleasure of Love (US 1984). D: Annabel Jankel & Rocky Morton
- John Hubley: Rooty Toot Toot (US 1952).
- Russell & Challice: Virgin Megastore Ad (1985)
- Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer (GB 1986). D: Stephen R. Johnson / Aardman Animations
- Donald Fagen: New Frontier (US 1983). D: Annabel Jankel & Rocky Morton
8 Oct 1987  Les Misérables I (FR 1925). D: Henri Fescourt. SEA Orion 35 mm, Cin. fr. [2]
8 Oct 1987  Les Misérables II (FR 1925). D: Henri Fescourt. SEA Orion 35 mm, Cin.fr. [2]
9 Oct 1987  Mikko Piela views House of Strangers on my video system
9 Oct 1987  L'Hirondelle et la Mésange (FR 1920/1984). D: André Antoine. SEA Pulsar viewing table, 35 mm, I transcribe the intertitles for the translator, new reconstruction of the masterpiece shot in 1920 and edited only now at la Cinémathèque francaise [2]
9 Oct 1987  At last I find a way to calculate the accurate duration of a silent film, based on the fact that there are 52 frames in one meter.
9 Oct 1987  Les Misérables III (FR 1925). D: Henri Fescourt. SEA Orion 35 mm, Cin. fr. [2]
9 Oct 1987  Les Misérables IV (FR 1925). D: Henri Fescourt. SEA Orion 35 mm, Cin. fr., the first half an hour [2]
9 Oct 1987 Night train Helsinki - Tampere, night bus Tampere - Pirkkala
11 Oct 1987  Lion of the Desert / Erämaan leijona / Löwe der Wüste (US/Libya 1980). D: Moustapha Akkad. SEA Orion 35 mm (I sample 15 min). Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn), the liberator hero of Libya, vs. Mussolini (Rod Steiger)
12 Oct 1987  I adopt self-adhesive strips for program plan construction
12 Oct 1987  Outi Mehto views L'Hirondelle et la Mésange in my room
12 Oct 1987  Casanova (FR 1927). D: Alexandre Volkoff. SEA Pulsar 35 mm, Cin. fr., reel I, transcription of the intertitles for the translator
13 Oct 1987  The Scarface Mob / Poliisi taistelee (US 1959). D: Phil Karlson. SEA Orion 35 mm
14 Oct 1987  Casanova (FR 1927), reels II-VII. D: Alexandre Volkoff. SEA Pulsar 35 mm, Cin. fr. transcription of the intertitles for the translator
14 Oct 1987  The James Dean Story (US 1957). D: Robert Altman. SEA Orion video projection
15 Oct 1987  Flash Gordon (GB/US/NL 1980). D: Mike Hodges. SEA Orion 35 mm. Presenting the film archive to two school classes: Suutarilan yläasteen lukio / Leena Vahala. Helsingin 1. normaalikoulu / Elina Harjunen
16 Oct 1987  Kohlhiesels Töchter (DE 1920). D: Ernst Lubitsch. [X] SEA viewing table 35 mm, transcription of the intertitles for the translator
16 Oct 1987  Hintertreppe (DE 1921). D: Leopold Jessner, Paul Leni. [X] SEA viewing table 35 mm, transcription of the intertitles for the translator
16 Oct 1987  Vanina I, (DE 1922) D: Arthur von Gerlach. SEA viewing table 35 mm, transcription of the intertitles for the translator
17 Oct 1987  Vanina II-III, SEA viewing table 35 mm, transcription of the intertitles for the translator
17 Oct 1987  Die Strasse (DE 1923) D: Karl Grune. SEA viewing table 35 mm, transcription of the intertitles for the translator
17 Oct 1987  I translate Die Strasse, Vanina, Kohlhiesels Töchter
18 Oct 1987  That's Not All Folks! - programme curated by Jayne Pilling (BFI). SEA Orion. D: Tex Avery
- Who Killed Who (US 1943)
- Symphony in Slang (1951) 16 mm
- Red Hot Riding Hood (US 1943)
- Outfoxed (US 1941)
- Blitz Wolf (US 1942)
- Bad Luck Blackie (US 1949)
- Little Johnny Jet (US 1953) 16 mm
- Little Rural Riding Hood (US 1949) 16 mm
- TV of Tomorrow (US 1953)
- Magical Maestro (US 1952)
- North West Hounded Police (US 1946)
18 Oct 1987 Casanova (FR 1927). D: Alexandre Volkoff. SEA Orion 35 mm, Cin. fr. - sampling the beginning and the ending on screen
19 Oct 1987  Der Feind im Blut (DE 1931). D: Walther Ruttmann. SEA viewing table 35 mm nitrate, Swedish commentary, German dialogue, 61 min
20 Oct 1987  Fantasia sottomarina (IT 1939). D: Roberto Rossellini. SEA Orion 35 mm
20 Oct 1987  La nave bianca (IT 1941). D: Roberto Rossellini. SEA Orion 35 mm
21 Oct 1987  Kohlhiesels Töchter (DE 1920). D: Ernst Lubitsch. [X]  SEA Orion 35 mm. I speak the live voice earphone commentary in Finnish.
21 Oct 1987  Hintertreppe / Backstairs (DE 1921). D: Leopold Jessner, Paul Leni. [X] SEA Orion 35 mm. English intertitles
22 Oct 1987  Vanina (DE 1922). D: Arthur von Gerlach. [2] I speak the live voice earphone commentary in Finnish.
22 Oct 1987  A Hard Day's Night (GB 1964). D: Richard Lester. Sampling 15 min, including "And I Love Her". SEA Orion 35 mm
23 Oct 1987  Visiting the Helsingin Sanomat: Helena Ylänen introduces me to Mikael Fränti and Pertti Avola. We discuss the London Film Festival programme.
23 Oct 1987  L'uomo dalla croce / The Man with the Cross (IT 1943). D: Roberto Rossellini. SEA Orion 35 mm. Rossellini visits the bloodlands of Ukraine. I sample 15 min
23 Oct 1987  Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit / Tie voimaan ja kauneuteen / Road to Strength and Beauty (DE 1925). D: Wilhelm Prager. SEA viewing table 35 mm
23 Oct 1987  Sylvester / La Nuit de la St Sylvestre (DE 1924) D: Lupu Pick. SEA viewing table 35 mm
24 Oct 1987  Maailman kaunein tyttö (FI 1953). D: Veikko Itkonen. SEA Orion 35 mm
24 Oct 1987  Editing the translation of Andrei Tarkovski's Sculpting in Time into Finnish: struggling with diskettes that do not always have enough storage space
25 Oct 1987  Chuck Amuck - programme curated by Jayne Pilling (BFI). SEA Orion. D: Chuck Jones.
- Ali Baba Bunny (US 1957)
- For Scent-imental Reasons (US 1949)
- Rabbit Seasoning (US 1952)
- One Froggy Evening (US 1955)
- Rabbit of Seville (US 1950)
- Duck Dodgers of the 24½th Century (US 1953)
- Steal Wool (US 1957)
- Feed the Kitty (US 1952)
- Bully for Bugs (US 1953)
- To Beep Or Not to Beep (US 1963)
- What's Opera Doc? (US 1957)
25 Oct 1987  Die Strasse (DE 1923) D: Karl Grune. SEA Orion 35 mm (the beginning and the end)
25 Oct 1987  Translation of Andrei Tarkovski diskette: everything has disappeared
27 Oct 1987  Die Strasse (DE 1923) D: Karl Grune. [X] SEA screening room 35 mm, Peter von Bagh, Erkki Huhtamo
27 Oct 1987  Cartoons Spoof Hollywood - programme curated by Jayne Pilling (BFI). SEA Orion
- Tex Avery: Thugs With Dirty Mugs (US 1939)
- Chuck Jones: Past Performance (US 1953)
- Friz Freleng: Slick Hare (US 1947)
- Hanna & Barbera: Blue Cat Blues (US 1956)
- Bob Clampett: Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarves (US 1942)
- Chuck Jones: Duck Amuck (US 1953)
- Hanna & Barbera: Flirty Birdy (US 1945)
- Friz Freleng: You Oughta Be In Pictures (US 1940)
- Bob McKimson: What's Up Doc? (US 1950)
- Bob Clampett: Bacall to Arms (US 1946)
- Chuck Jones: Scarlet Pumpernickel (US 1959)
28 Oct 1987  Erkki Huhtamo views Francesco giullare di Dio and Die Strasse
28 Oct 1987  Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (DE 1925). D: Wilhelm Prager. [X] SEA Orion 35 mm, 24 fps
29 Oct 1987  Risto Raitio views Trinidad
29 Oct 1987  Sylvester / La Nuit de la St Sylvestre (DE 1924) D: Lupu Pick. [X] SEA Orion 35 mm
29 Oct 1987  La macchina ammazzacattivi / The Machine That Kills (IT 1948). D: Roberto Rossellini. SEA Orion
30 Oct 1987  Varieté (DE 1925). D: E. A. Dupont. [X] SEA viewing table 35 mm
30 Oct 1987  Zur Chronik von Grieshuus (DE 1925). D: Arthur von Gerlach. [X] SEA viewing table 35 mm. English intertitles.
30 Oct 1987  Berlin die Symphonie der Grossstadt (DE 1927). D: Walther Ruttmann. [X] SEA viewing table 35 mm
31 Oct 1987  Further struggle with the Tarkovsky files. Finally everything gets printed out.

September 1987 Helsinki, Stockholm

Henri Fescourt: Les Misérables I-IV (FR 1925). The great restorations of La Cinémathèque française featured prominently in our programming in these years.

2 Sep 1987  Whoopee! / Hääkellot (US 1930). D: Thornton Freeland. Eddie Cantor. SEA Orion 35 mm
3 Sep 1987  Nosferatu (DE 1922). D: F. W. Murnau. The newest restoration from Munich. Video [5]
3 Sep 1987  42nd Street (US 1933). D: Lloyd Bacon. SEA Orion 35 mm
4 Sep 1987  Вечір на Івана Купала [Ukr.] / Вечер накануне Ивана Купалы [Russ.] / Vetshir na Ivana Kupala / Vetsher nakanune Ivana Kupaly (SU-UA 1968). D: Juri Iljenko. SEA Kosmos 70 mm print from GFF in Ukrainian.
4 Sep 1987  Footlight Parade (US 1933). D: Lloyd Bacon. SEA Orion 35 mm
5 Sep 1987  Kuriton sukupolvi (FI 1957). D: Matti Kassila. SEA Orion 35 mm
5 Sep 1987  Maccheroni (IT 1986). D: Ettore Scola. Gloria
6 Sep 1987  Nosferatu (DE 1979). D: Werner Herzog. Video
6 Sep 1987  Nosferatu (DE 1922). D: F. W. Murnau. Video [6]
6 Sep 1987  Lo sceicco bianco / Valkoinen sheikki (IT 1952). D. Federico Fellini. SEA Orion 35 mm
8 Sep 1987  I send my Nosferatu essay "Kuolemanlinnun öinen kutsu" to Helsingin Sanomat
8 Sep 1987  Roman Scandals (US 1933). D: Frank Tuttle. SEA Orion 35 mm, 78 min print, original duration 92 min
9 Sep 1987  Wonder Bar (US 1934). D: Lloyd Bacon. SEA Orion 16 mm
9 Sep 1987  Le Chant du styrène (FR 1958). D: Alain Resnais. SEA Orion
10 Sep 1987  Helsinki Festival press conference with Berndt Heller, conductor and arranger of Hans Erdmann's original score (1922) for Nosferatu
10 Sep 1987  Ostanovilsja poezd / The Train Has Stopped (SU 1982). D: Vadim Abdrashitov. [2] SEA Orion 35 mm. Prophetic in more than name only.
11-13 Sep 1987  Hosting Enno Patalas in Helsinki
11 Sep 1987  Film concert Nosferatu (DE 1922) score Hans Erdmann, cond. Berndt Heller, Helsinki Festival, Savoy, 35 mm [7]
12 Sep 1987  Film concert Nosferatu (DE 1922) score Hans Erdmann, cond. Berndt Heller, Helsinki Festival, Savoy, 35 mm [8]
13-14 Sep 1987  Night ferry Helsinki - Stockholm, Silja Line
14 Sep 1987  Stockholm: Filmhuset: Gunnar Almér, Seppo Luoma-Keturi, Tilda Forselius, my film school friends Paulina Grönholm & Hanna Hassi
14 Sep 1987  Stockholm: Filmhuset: Rolf Lindfors
15-16 Sep 1987  Night ferry Stockholm - Helsinki, Silja Line
17 Sep 1987  Installing a video projector in Orion
17 Sep 1987  Infermental VI (HU 1987). SEA Orion video projection
18 Sep 1987  La Roue (FR 1923). D: Abel Gance. Reels I, II, III, IV to be continued. SEA viewing table, 35 mm. Cin. fr.
18 Sep 1987  Babes on Broadway (US 1941). D: Busby Berkeley. SEA Orion 35 mm
19 Sep 1987  Oi, kallis Suomenmaa (FI 1940). D: Wilho Ilmari. SEA Orion 35 mm
20 Sep 1987  For Me and My Gal (US 1942). D: Busby Berkeley. SEA Orion
21 Sep 1987  La Roue. Reels V, VI, VII to be continued. SEA viewing table 35 mm. Cin. fr.
22 Sep 1987  La Roue. Reels VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, IX, X, XI . SEA viewing table 35 mm. Cin. fr.
22 Sep 1987  The Gang's All Here (US 1943). D: Busby Berkeley. SEA Orion
22 Sep 1987  Le Reflet de Claude Mercœur (FR 1923). D: Julien Duvivier. SEA viewing table 35 mm. Cin. fr.
23 Sep 1987  Les Misérables I-IV (FR 1925). D: Henri Fescourt. 16 reels. SEA viewing table 35 mm, Cin. fr. 9000 m
23 Sep 1987  Gold Diggers of 1937 (US 1937). D: Lloyd Bacon. SEA viewing table
23 Sep 1987  Ziegfeld Girl (US 1940). D: Robert Z. Leonard. SEA viewing table
23 Sep 1987  Easy to Love (US 1953). D: Charles Walters. SEA Orion
24 Sep 1987  Le Tournoi (FR 1928). D: Jean Renoir. SEA viewing table 35 mm, 9 reels, Cin. fr. 
24 Sep 1987  Moi drug Ivan Lapshin (SU 1984). D: Aleksei German. SEA Orion 35 mm
25 Sep 1987  Meeting Michael Töteberg.
25 Sep 1987  Istintaq / Dopros / Interrogation / Das Verhör (SU-Azerbaijan 1979). D: Rasim Ojagov / Rassim Odzhagov. SEA Orion 35 mm. Powerful expose of corruption, in wider release during Glasnost.
25 Sep 1987  Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders / Ratsupoliisi Kingin paluu (US 1952). D: Franklin Adreon. SEA Orion 35 mm
26 Sep 1987  Вечір на Івана Купала [Ukr.] / Вечер накануне Ивана Купалы [Russ.] / Vetshir na Ivana Kupala / Vetsher nakanune Ivana Kupaly (SU-UA 1968). D: Juri Iljenko. SEA Kosmos 70 mm print from GFF in Ukrainian [2]
26 Sep 1987  Kulkurin valssi (FI 1941). D: Toivo Särkkä. SEA Orion 35 mm
27 Sep 1987  Steaming / Naisten kesken (GB 1985). D: Joseph Losey. Video. (In Finland straight to video).
27 Sep 1987  Jiří Trnka. SEA Orion 35 mm, nitrate and safety
- Árie prérie / Song of the Prairie (CZ 1949)
- Čertův mlýn / The Devil's Mill (CZ 1949)
- Perníková chaloupka / The Gingerbread House / Hannu ja Kerttu / Hänsel und Gretel / Hansel and Gretel (CZ 1951). D: Břetislav Pojar. Hudba / music: Jiří Srnka. Výprava: Jiří Trnka.
- Dva mrazíci / Two Little Frosts (CZ 1954)
29 Sep 1987  Skënderbeu / Skanderbeg / Veliki voin Albanii Skanderbeg / The Great Albanian Warrior Skanderbeg / Kultainen haarniska / Uppror i bergen (Albania/SU 1954). D: Sergei Jutkevitsh. SEA Orion 35 mm nitrate
30 Sep 1987  Dhe vjen një ditë / And a Day Comes (Albania 1986). D: Vladimir Prifti. SEA Orion 35 mm. The tale of an opportunistic and egoistic careerist with Glasnost affinities.
30 Sep 1987  Le Tournoi (FR 1928). D: Jean Renoir. SEA Orion 35 mm, Cin. fr. [2]
30 Sep 1987 I learn to know Jouko Tyyri, a Jean Renoir aficionado, who had never seen Le Tournoi before.

August 1987 Helsinki, Pirkkala, Tampere

Walt Disney: Three Blind Mouseketeers (US 1936). One of his greatest masterpieces. Series: Silly Symphonies.

3 Aug 1987  Marilyn (US 1963). No credited director. Twentieth Century Fox official memorial, including never before seen footage of Something's Got to Give. SEA viewing table 35 mm, SFI-FA print [2]
3 Aug 1987  Vanhat poistot / old outtakes: SEA viewing table 35 mm nitrate
- R-1440 newsreels
- R-1441 M. Douglas, newsreels
- R-1442 The Bitter Tea of General Yen
- R-1443 gangster film with Edward Arnold
- R-1445 Franz parody: the heaven - Lillian Gish silent (The Enemy?)
5 Aug 1987  Vanhat poistot / old outtakes, SEA viewing table 35 mm nitrate
- R-1446, R-1447, R-1449 negatives
- R-1448  Lux soap
- R-1450  Rasputin and the Empress (US 1932)
5 Aug 1987  Rio Bravo (US 1959). D: Howard Hawks. SEA Orion 35 mm [5] but: for the first time in 35 mm. I had screened it in film societies in 16 mm, for the first time in the Tampereen lukio film society.
6 Aug 1987  Gojira no musuko (JP 1967). D: Jun Fukuda. SEA viewing table 35 mm, English spoken version
8 Aug 1987  Gothic / Yövieraat (GB 1986). D: Ken Russell. Forum, released by Leo Karni
11 Aug 1987  Radio Days (US 1987). D: Woody Allen. Häme, Tampere
11 Aug 1987  Something Wild / Vaarallinen tyttöystävä (US 1986). D: Jonathan Demme. Nordia 1, Tampere
12 Aug 1987  The Living Daylights / 007 vaaran vyöhykkeellä (GB 1987). Hällä 1, Tampere
12 Aug 1987  Raising Arizona (US 1987). D: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. Hällä 2, Tampere
12 Aug 1987  Peeping Tom (GB 1960). D: Michael Powell. tv Pirkkala, the last 30 min [X]
13 Aug 1987  Blind Date / Sokkotreffit (US 1987). D: Blake Edwards. Nordia 1, Tampere
13 Aug 1987  Stand By Me / Viimeinen kesä (SU 1986). D: Rob Reiner. Nordia 2, Tampere
14 Aug 1987  Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (FR 1953). D: Jacques Tati. tv Pirkkala, 85 min version, the beginning [X]
15 Aug 1987  Rovaniemen markkinoilla (FI 1951). D: Jorma Nortimo. tv, Pirkkala
16 Aug 1987  Charles Chaplin Festival, tv Pirkkala, restored versions
- The Immigrant (US 1917) 17 June 1917
- The Adventurer (US 1917 22 Oct 1917
- The Cure (US 1917) 16 April 1917
- Easy Street (US 1917) 22 Jan 1917 - Charles Chaplin's last four Mutual comedies, the last before going independent.
17 Aug 1987  reading Jean Renoir: Renoir (1962), on his father Pierre-August Renoir, one of the greatest books written by a film director
17 Aug 1987  Convoy / Raivopäät (US 1978). D  Sam Peckinpah. tv MTV Pirkkala
19 Aug 1987  Opening of Andorra, the cinema of the Kaurismäki Brothers
19 Aug 1987  Down By Law (US 1986). D: Jim Jarmusch. Andorra opening film. [3]
19 Aug 1987  Shake! Otis at Monterey (US 1986). D: David Dawkins, Chris Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker. Andorra opening night. [2]
19 Aug 1987  Hamlet liikemaailmassa (FI 1987). D: Aki Kaurismäki. Andorra opening night
20 Aug 1987  Time Without Pity / 24 tuntia armonaikaa (GB 1956). D: Joseph Losey. SEA Orion 35 mm
21 Aug 1987  Diavolo in corpo / Paholainen ruumiissa (IT/FR 1986). D: Marco Bellocchio. Forum 2
22 Aug 1987  Miriam (FI 1957). D: William Markus. SEA Orion 35 mm
22 Aug 1987  Eva / Eve / Eeva (IT/FR 1962). D: Joseph Losey. SEA Orion 35 mm, 117 min print
23 Aug 1987  The Criminal / The Concrete Jungle (GB 1960). D: Joseph Losey. SEA Orion 35 mm
24 Aug 1987  Akahige / Punaparta (JP 1964). D: Akira Kurosawa. Diana 35 mm, 180 min, duration announced 210 min
25 Aug 1987  Le Feu follet / The Fire Within / Virvatuli / Tag mitt liv (FR 1963). D: Louis Malle. SEA Orion 35 mm, duration 108 min (not 121 min)
26 Aug 1987  Crocodile Dundee / Krokotiilimies (AU 1986). D: Peter Faiman. Formia 4
27 Aug 1987  La luna (IT/US 1979). D: Bernardo Bertolucci. SEA Orion 35 mm. 142 min. One of my Bertolucci favourites.
27 Aug 1987  Queen of Spades (GB 1948). D: Thorold Dickinson. SEA Orion 35 mm, nitrate tbc
28 Aug 1987  Miehen kylkiluu (FI 1937). D: Orvo Saarikivi, Hugo Hytönen. SEA Orion 35 mm, 76 min (84 announced)
28 Aug 1987  The Bedroom Window / Makuuhuoneen ikkuna (US 1987). D: Curtis Hanson. Gloria
29 Aug 1987  Disney Cartoon Jubilee (US 1973) / Aku Ankan juhlakaruselli. Studio 1
- How To Be a Sailor / Kapteeni Hessu (US 1944).
- Puss-Café / Pluto vahtikoirana (US 1950)
- Social Lion / Leijona huvittelee (US 1954)
- Crazy Over Daisy / Aku Ankan kosiomatka (US 1950)
- Three Blind Mouseketeers / Kolme sokeaa muskettihiirtä (US 1936) ******
- Early to Bed / Aku menee nukkumaan (US 1941)
- Morris, the Midget Moose / Kääpiöhirven seikkailut (US 1950)

- Sea Scouts / Merten sankarit (US 1939)

- Hold That Pose / Hessu valokuvaajana (US 1950)
- Hawaiian Holiday / Loma Havaijilla (US 1937)
- Cold Turkey / Pluton kylmä kalkkuna (US 1951)
30 Aug 1987  La Baie des anges / Enkelten lahti (FR/Monaco 1962). D: Jacques Demy. SEA Orion 35 mm, themes: Gambling, Moreau
31 Aug 1984  Stop Making Sense (US 1987). D: Jonathan Demme. Illusion 
31 Aug 1987  True Stories (US 1986). D: David Byrne. Amanda

July 1987 Helsinki

Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren: Begone Dull Care (CA 1950). Photo: Harvard Film Archive.

1 July 1987  Tumba francesa (CU 1978). SEA viewing table, with Risto Vuorimies / Kuuban Rytmi
1 July 1987  Con la misma pasion (CU 1980). SEA viewing table, with Risto Vuorimies / Kuuban Rytmi
1 July 1987  Anna Karenina (US 1935). D: Clarence Brown. Greta Garbo. SEA Orion, CIC or UIP 35 mmSe
2 July 1987  Tulio says no.
2 July 1987  Peau de banane / Banaaninkuori (FR/IT/DE 1963). D: Marcel Ophuls. Jeanne Moreau. SEA Orion 35 mm
2 July 1987  L'Année dernière à Marienbad / Viime vuonna Marienbadissa (FR/IT 1961). D: Alain Resnais. SEA Orion 35 mm

Separate entry: Moscow Film Festival 1987.

14 July 1987  Les Valseuses / Going Places (FR 1974). D: Bertrand Blier. Jeanne Moreau. SEA viewing table 35 mm.
14 July 1987  Le Corps de Diane / Diane (FR/CZ 1969). D: Jean-Louis Richard. Jeanne Moreau. SEA viewing table 35 mm.
15 July 1987  Big Deal at Dodge City / A Big Hand for the Little Lady / Kova panos Dodge Cityssä (US 1966). D: Fielder Cook. SEA viewing table 35 mm. The gambling theme.
15 July 1987  Norman McLaren II. SEA Orion, mostly 16 mm, prints mostly from the Canadian Embassy
- The Eye Hears and the Ear Sees (CA 1970)
- Loops (CA 1940)
- C'est l'aviron (CA 1944)
- Begone Dull Care (CA 1940)
- Blinkity Blank (CA 1955)
- Neighbours (CA 1955) 35 mm
15 July 1987  El angel exterminador / Tuhon enkeli (MX 1962). D: Luis Buñuel. [2]. SEA Orion 35 mm
16 July 1987  The Hand / Kuristava kauhu (US 1981). D: Oliver Stone. SEA viewing table 35 mm
16 July 1987  Finlandia-katsaus 422 (FI 1959). D: Kari Uusitalo. SEA Orion 35 mm
16 July 1987  Suuri sävelparaati (FI 1959). D: Jack Witikka. SEA Orion 35 mm
16 July 1987  Ocean's Eleven / Kovat kaverit (US 1960). D: Lewis Milestone. SEA Orion 35 mm. The director at his worst, this original film is inferior to the remake.
18 July 1987  A Room With a View / Hotelli Firenzessä (GB 1985). D: James Ivory. Forum
19 July 1987  Atlantic City (US/CA 1980). D: Louis Malle. SEA Orion 35 mm. The gambling theme.
20 July 1987  Nad Niemnem / At the Niemen / On the Banks of the Niemen (PL 1986). D: Zbigniew Kuzminski. SEA Orion, special screening, I view the first part, fall asleep, after the intermission I go home. The Poles leave us a bottle of Wodka Wyborowa, shared and consumed the night after.
22 July 1987  Sampo (SU/FI 1959). D: Aleksandr Ptushko. SEA viewing table 35 mm
23 July 1987  Censorship cuts - including outtakes from Extase. SEA viewing table 35 mm
23 July 1987  Iskelmäkaruselli pyörii (FI 1960). D: Harry Orvomaa. SEA Orion 35 mm
23 July 1987  EP-X-503 (FI 1962). D: Erkko Kivikoski. SEA Orion 35 mm
24 July 1987  Censorship cuts: 70 reels catalogued, 7 analyzed. SEA viewing table 35 mm
28 July 1987  Kuuban rytmi I. SEA Orion
- introduction: Olavo Alen
- Con la misma pasion (CU 1980). D: Constante Diego.
- Y tenemos sabor lito cuni (CU 1980). D: Sara Gomez.
- Un documental dedicado a Felix Chapotin y Miguelito Cuni (CU 1980). D: Constante Diego.
- Ignacio Pineiro (CU 1977). D: Luis F. Barnaza.
- Una fiesta de changui (CU 1980). D: Santiago Villafuerte.

Moscow Film Festival 1987

Aleksandr Askoldov: Komissar / The Commissar (SU 1967), with Vasili Shukshin (the Commandant) and Nonna Mordjukova (the Commissar). The first screening of the most famous of the Thaw era films shelved during Brezhnev and released during Glasnost. Black and white in Sovscope. Please click on the image to enlarge it.

5 July 1987  Night train from Helsinki to Moscow ("Leo Tolstoi").
6 July 1987  Hotel Rossija.
6 July 1987  Moscow Film Festival Opening Ceremony, Tsentralnyi Festivalnyi Zal
6 July 1987  Zabytaja melodija dlja fleity / Unohtunut sävelmä huilulle / Forgotten Tune for the Flute (SU 1987). D: Eldar Rjazanov. Opening gala film, Tsentralnyi Festivalnyi Zal
7 July 1987  The morning screening of Gleb Panfilov's V ogne broda njet has been postponed.
7 July 1987  Monanieba / Pokajanie / Repentance (SU-GE 1984). D: Tengiz Abuladze. Russian language version of the Georgian film. Kino Rybok. This key Glasnost film had its international festival premiere in Cannes 1987. In the USSR it had been in limited release in Georgia and since 1986 in Moscow.
7 July 1987  V ogne broda njet / No Ford in the Fire (SU 1967). D: Gleb Panfilov. Black and white in Sovscope. (In Finland we have a 35 mm tv print in Academy). A revelation of the Glasnost.
8 July 1987  Сүйүүнүн Көркү / Махабат дастаны / Mirazhi ljubvi / [Mirages of Love] (SU-KG/SY 1987). D: Tolomush Okejev. Kino Rynok
8 July 1987  Katok i skripka / Höyryjyrä ja viulu (SU 1961). D: Andrei Tarkovski. Oktjabr
8 July 1987  Tempo di viaggio / Voyage in Time (tvm, IT 1983). D: Tonino Guerra, Andrei Tarkovski. Oktjabr
9 July 1987  A visit to Gosfilmofond: Director General Mark Strotshkov.
9 July 1987  Moi ljubimyi kloun / My Favourite Clown (SU 1987). D: Juri Kushnerjov. Kino Rynok
9 July 1987  Zavtra byla voina / Ja huomenna syttyi sota / Tomorrow There Was War (SU 1987). D: Juri Kara. Kino Rynok
9 July 1987  Самотня жінка бажає познайомитися... / Odinokaja zhenshtshina zhelajet poznakomitsja / Yksinäinen nainen etsii elämäntoveria / Lonely Woman Seeks Lifetime Companion (SU-UA 1987). D: Vjatsheslav Krishtofovitsh. Kino Rynok
10 July 1987  Kin-Dza-Dza! (SU 1986). D: Georgi Danelia. Kino Rynok
10 July 1987  Cronaca di una morte annunciata / Kuulutetun kuoleman kronikka / Chronicle of a Death Foretold (IT/FR/CO 1987). D: Francesco Rosi. Tsentranlnyi Festivalnyi Zal
10 July 1987 14.00 At Kino Illusion, Mark Strotshkov introduces us to Volodja Solovjev
10 July 1987  Varjoja paratiisissa (FI 1987). D: Aki Kaurismäki. Tsentralnyi Festivalnyi Zal
11 July 1987  Sovexportfilm - Juri Kolosov - 3 films - Mark Strotshkov
11 July 1987  11.30 Oci ciornie / Mustat silmät / Dark Eyes (IT/SU 1987). D: Nikita Mihalkov. Tsentralnyi Festivalnyi Zal
11 July 1987  Pljumbum, ili opasnaja igra / Plumbum, Or Dangerous Game / Plumbum - vaarallista peliä / Vaarallinen leikki (SU 1987). D: Vadim Abdrashitov. Kino Rynok
11 July 1987 18.00  Komissar / Komissaari / The Commissar (SU 1967). D: Aleksandr Askoldov. Dom Kino. The first public (or semi-public) screening of the most startling discovery of the shelved films revealed during Glasnost. Standing room only. I was among those standing all the way, as if in ovation.
11 July 1987  11.00 Tour of the city, including the Novodevitshy Cemetery, we see the graves of Shukshin, Molotov, Hrushtshov and Nadezhda Allilujeva among others.
11-12 July 1987  Night train to Helsinki ("Leo Tolstoi").

June 1987, Helsinki

John Ford: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (US 1949). Captain Nathan Brittles (John Wayne) smokes the ceremonial pipe with the Cheyenne and Arapaho represented by Chief Pony That Walks (Chief John Big Tree), Red Shirt (Noble Johnson) and Chief Sky Eagle (George Sky Eagle).

3 June 1987  Moderato cantabile (FR/IT 1960). D: Peter Brook. Marguerite Duras. SEA Orion, 16 mm, not scope, shrunken [Kenya]
4 June 1987  Nathalie Granger (FR 1972). D: Marguerite Duras. SEA Orion, 35 mm
5 June 1987  La Reine Margot / Kuningattaren ritari (FR/IT 1954). D: Jean Dréville. SEA Orion 35 mm, our print, turning slightly red
6 June 1987  La Voie lactée / Linnunrata (FR/IT/DE 1969). D: Luis Buñuel. SEA Orion 35 mm [X]
7 June 1987  A Day at the Races / Päivä kilpa-ajoissa (US 1937). Marx Bros. [2]. SEA Orion 35 mm
7 June 1987  California Split / Täyskäsi (US 1974). D: Robert Altman. SEA Orion 35 mm
10 June 1987  at 9 am at Silja-Terminalen: I welcome Yngve Bengtsson and a delegation of 25 activists of SFF (Sveriges Förenade Filmstudios), the Swedish organization of film societies, who have come to spend three days at Cinema Orion to view our treasures, mainly nitrate prints
10 June 1987 at 10 am  The Big Carnival / Tuhansien silmien edessä (US 1951). D: Billy Wilder. SEA Orion 35 mm safety print, SFF special screening
10 June 1987 afternoon  She Wore a Yellow Ribbon / Keltainen nauha (US 1949). D: John Ford. SEA Orion 35 mm safety print, brilliant Technicolor, SFF special screening - I escort the SFF team to Hotel Helka
11 June 1987  La Charrette fantôme / Ajomies (FR 1939). D: Julien Duvivier. The French remake of the Selma Lagerlöf - Victor Sjöström classic. SEA Orion 35 mm nitrate print, SFF special screening
12 June 1987  I say goodbye to the SFF guests and board the night train to Rovaniemi.

See separate entry: Midnight Sun Film Festival 1987.

23 June 1987  La Mort en ce jardin / Kuoleman puutarha (FR(MX 1956). D: Luis Buñuel. SEA Orion 35 mm
25 June 1987  The Steel Helmet / Teräskypärä (US 1951). D: Sam Fuller. [2] SEA Orion 35 mm
25 June 1987  Hell and High Water / Merten paholaiset (US 1953). D: Sam Fuller. [2] SEA Orion 35 mm, vintage 2,55:1 CinemaScope with magnetic sound, Eastmancolour turning red
26 June 1987  Madigan / Säälimättömät (US 1968). D: Don Siegel. Video: I view the rest of the movie that was interrupted in Sodankylä as I had to board the night train to Helsinki.
26 June 1987  9½ Weeks / 9½ viikkoa (US 1986). D: Adrian Lyne. Video fast forward
27 June 1987  The Wicker Man / Uhrijuhla (GB 1973). D: Robin Hardy. Video fast forward
28 June 1987  Norman McLaren programme, 16 mm mostly, from the Canadian Embassy
- Opening Speech (CA 1960) 35 mm
- Boogie Doodle (CA 1940)
- Hen Hop (CA 1942)
- Alouette (CA 1944)
- Hoppity Pop (CA 1946)
- La Poulette grise (CA 1947. 
- Rythmetic (CA 1956)
- A Chairy Tale (CA 1957) 35 mm
- Pas de deux (CA 1967)
- Narcissus (CA 1983)
28 June 1987  Les Amants / Yö kuuluu rakkaudelle (FR 1958). D: Louis Malle. SEA Orion 35 mm
30 June 1987  The Son of the Sheik / Sheikin poika (US 1926). D: George Fitzmaurice. Valentino. SEA Orion 35 mm nitrate print of the sonorized version. The audience cheers.
30 June 1987  Igrok / Pelurit / The Gambler (SU 1972). D: Aleksei Batalov. Dostoevsky, with Nikolai Burljajev. Sovcolour turning red. SEA Orion 35 mm

Midnight Sun Film Festival 1987

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger: I Know Where I'm Going! (GB 1945) with Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey.

I arrive on Saturday. The festival has started on Wednesday.
13 June 1987 12.00  Les Parapluies de Cherbourg / Cherbourgin sateenvarjot (FR/DE 1964). D: Jacques Demy. SEA 35 mm print. In the presence of Jacques Demy
13 June 1987 15.00  A Canterbury Tale (GB 1944). D: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. NFA 35 mm print. In the presence of Michael Powell
13 June 1987 17.30  I Know Where I'm Going! / Myrskyöitä (GB 1945). D: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. NFA 35 mm print. In the presence of Michael Powell
13 June 1987 19.00  Film concert Greed (US 1924). D: Erich von Stroheim. SEA 35 mm print. Anssi Tikanmäki Film Orchestra
13 June 1987 [a glimpse of Monterey Pop in 35 mm] in the presence of D. A. Pennebaker.
13 June 1987  Down By Law (US 1986). D: Jim Jarmusch. Preview of the Senso Films release. 35 mm
14 June 1987 10.00 Morning discussion with D. A. Pennebaker, hosted by Peter von Bagh
14 June 1987 12.30  Small Back Room (GB 1949). D: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. NFA 35 mm print. In the presence of Michael Powell
14 June 1987 20.00 The Big Steal / Kuolema vaanii varjossa (US 1949). D: Don Siegel
14 June 1987 22.30 Hell Is For Heroes / Kuusi urhoa (US 1962). D: Don Siegel
15 June 1987  Morning discussion with Raymond Durgnat, Thelma Schoonmaker, Michael Powell
15 June 1987 12.45  The King of Comedy / Koomikkojen kuningas (US 1982). D: Martin Scorsese. 35 mm. In the presence of Thelma Schoonmaker
15 June 1987 17.00  Madigan / Säälimättömät (US 1968). D: Don Siegel - the beginning

15-16 June  Night train from Rovaniemi to Helsinki. I sleep well.

May 1987, Helsinki, FIAF Congress Berlin

André Antoine: L'Hirondelle et la Mesange (FR 1920). Shot in 1920, edited at La Cinémathèque francaise in 1984.

1 May 1987  On the Town / Ilo irti (US 1949). D: Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen. SEA Orion, 35 mm
2 May 1987  Meidän poikamme (FI 1929). D: Erkki Karu. SEA Orion, 35 mm
2 May 1987  Un chien andalou (FR 1929). D: Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí. SEA Orion, 35 mm, print sonorized by Buñuel [X]
2 May 1987  L'Age d'Or (FR 1930). D: Luis Buñuel. SEA Orion, 35 mm, the complete print for the first time, acquired by Aito Mäkinen [X]
2 May 1987  The Revenge of Frankenstein (GB 1958). D: Terence Fisher. [2] SEA Orion, 35 mm, SFI-FA print
3 May 1987  The 3 Worlds of Gulliver / Gulliverin matkat (US 1959). D: Jack Sher. SEA Orion, 35 mm, print incomplete
5 May 1987  Anchors Aweigh / Laulaen maihin (US 1945). D: George Sidney. SEA Orion 35 mm
5 May 1987  L'Atalante (FR 1934). D: Jean Vigo. SEA Orion, 35 mm, the new print from Aito Mäkinen [X]
6 May 1987  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (GB 1943). D: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. SEA Orion 35 mm, 163 min print [X]
7 May 1987  Royal Wedding / Kuninkaalliset häät (US 1941). D: Stanley Donen. SEA Orion 35 mm
7 May 1987  Gone to Earth / Lumottu veri (GB 1948). D: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. SEA Orion 35 mm [X]
8 May 1987  We install for the first time a video projector of our own at the Orion - Barco.
8 May 1987  Meidän poikamme merellä (FI 1933). D: Erkki Karu. SEA Orion video (premiere of our Barco projector).
9 May 1987  Animal Crackers / Koirankeksit / Iloiset soittoniekat (US 1930). Marx Bros. tv Pirkkala [X]
10 May 1987  The 39 Steps / 39 askelta (GB 1935). D: Alfred Hitchcock. Tampere, Pirkka, 35 mm, new re-release [2]
12 May 1987  Frankenstein Created Woman (GB 1967). D: Terence Fisher. SEA viewing table, 35 mm
12 May 1987  Stazione termini / Kohtalokas laituri (IT/US 1953). D: Vittorio De Sica. SEA Orion 35 mm, English language version
13 May 1987  The Reptile (GB 1966). D: John Gilling. SEA viewing table 35 mm
13 May 1987  Rasputin the Mad Monk (GB 1966). D: Don Sharp. SEA viewing table 35 mm
14 May 1987  Meidän poikamme ilmassa - me maassa (FI 1934). D: Erkki Karu. SEA Orion 35 mm, 100 min version (original duration according to sources 120 min)

16-23 May 1987 FIAF Congress Berlin. The evening film screening program was a showcase of two FIAF Touring Shows
17 May 1987  FIAF General Assembly
17 May 1987  FIAF Opening Reception: Ägyptisches Museum
18 May 1987  FIAF General Assembly
18 May 1987 at 20  Scherben bringen Glück (DE 1932). D: Curt Bois. Arsenal, 35 mm
18 May 1987 at 22  Elstree Calling (GB 1930). D: Adrian Brunel, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Hulbert, André Charlot, Paul Murray. Arsenal, 35 mm
19 May 1987  FIAF General Assembly
19 May 1987  Cent films Lumière (FR 1895-1900). Frères Lumiere. Arsenal, 35 mm, the Boyer prints commissioned by Langlois, part of the FIAF Touring Show
19 May 1987  L'Assassinat du Duc de Guise /Guisen herttuan murha (FR 1908). D: André Calmettes, Charles Le Bargy. Arsenal, 35 mm, restored, sonorized with the Camille Saint-Saëns score
19 May 1987  Autour d'une cabine (FR 1895). D: Émile Reynaud. Arsenal, 35 mm, new reconstruction of the pioneering animation
19 May 1987  L'Hirondelle et la Mesange (FR 1920/1984). D: André Antoine. Arsenal, 35 mm, new reconstruction of the masterpiece shot in 1920 and edited only now at la Cinémathèque francaise
20 May 1987  FIAF Joint Technical Symposium
20 May 1987  Ihr Unteroffizier (DE 1914). D: Alfred Halm. Arsenal, 35 mm
20 May 1987  Harakiri (DE 1919). D: Fritz Lang. Arsenal, 35 mm. A new reconstruction of a Fritz Lang believed lost
20 May 1987  Nummisuutarit (FI 1922). D: Erkki Karu. Arsenal, 35 mm. Our toned and sonorized print with English subtitles for the FIAF Touring Show [X]
21 May 1987  Way Down East I-II (US 1920). D: D. W. Griffith. Arsenal, 35 mm, MoMA restoration. I view 2 hrs of the 3 hrs screening
22 May 1987  FIAF Joint Technical Symposium
22 May 1987  Drake of England (GB 1935). D: Arthur B. Woods. FIAF Joint Technical Symposium, 35 mm
22 May 1987  FIAF Joint Technical Symposium: Ethics of Restoration: Böhrenz, Borde, Deggeler, Kubelka, Labenski, Pinel, Storm, Ponsin, Gregor
22 May 1987  FIAF Closing Reception: Metropole

27 May 1987  The Devil Rides Out (GB 1967). D: Terence Fisher. SEA Orion
28 May 1987  E la nave va / Fellinin Laiva (IT/FR 1983). D: Federico Fellini. SEA Orion 35 mm
29 May 1987  Roinilan talossa (FI 1935). D: Erkki Karu. SEA Orion 35 mm
31 May 1987  Behind the Screen (US 1916). D: Charles Chaplin. SEA Orion 35 mm
31 May 1987  The Rink (US 1916). D: Charles Chaplin. SEA Orion 35 mm
31 May 1987  Easy Street (US 1916). D: Charles Chaplin. SEA Orion 35 mm
31 May 1987  The Adventurer (US 1917). D: Charles Chaplin. SEA Orion 35 mm

April 1987, Helsinki

Jacques Becker: Le Trou (FR 1960).

1 April 1987  Zakroishtshik iz Torzhka / Räätäli Torzhokista (SU 1925) D: Jakov Protazanov. Sonorized print. SEA Orion 35 mm
2 April 1987  The Song of Songs / Korkea veisu (US 1933). D: Rouben Mamoulian. Video
3 April 1987  Prazdnik svjatogo Jorgena / Pyhän Yrjön juhlat (SU 1930). D: Jakov Protazanov. SEA Orion 35 mm
3 April 1987  Smultronstället / Mansikkapaikka (SE 1957). D: Ingmar Bergman. SEA Orion 35 mm - the end
3 April 1987  Permanent Vacation / Loputon loma (US 1980). D: Jim Jarmusch. SEA Orion, [2] video projection, I am the projectionist
4 April 1987  Koskenlaskijan morsian (FI 1923). D: Erkki Karu. SEA Orion 35 mm - the end
4 April 1987  Gösta Berlings saga / Gösta Berlingin taru (SE 1924). D: Mauritz Stiller. SEA Orion 35 mm. Piano: Esa Helasvuo
4 April 1987  Cleopatra Jones (US 1973). D: Jack Starrett. SEA Orion, 35 mm - the beginning
5 April 1987  Tex Avery V. SEA Orion 35 mm - the end
5 April 1987  Die Fälschung / Petosten kehässä (DE/FR 1981). D: Volker Schlöndorff. Co-SC: Margarethe von Trotta. SEA Orion 35 mm
5 April 1987  Rosa Luxemburg (DE/CZ 1986). D: Margarethe von Trotta. SEA Orion 35 mm. Sold out screening.
7 April 1987  Potselui Mary Pickford / A Kiss from Mary Pickford (SU 1927). D: Sergei Komarov. SEA Orion 35 mm. GFF print
9 April 1987  The Bellboy / Jerry piccolona (US 1960). D: Jerry Lewis. SEA Orion 35 mm
9 April 1987  Le Trou / Tunneli (FR/IT 1960). D: Jacques Becker. SEA Orion 35 mm
10 April 1987  Nummisuutarit (FI 1923). D: Erkki Karu. SEA Orion 35 mm, the sonorized and toned print
11 April 1987  Kutya eji dala / Koiran yölaulu (HU 1983). D: Gabor Body. SEA Orion 35 mm
12 April 1987  Repo Man (US 1984). D: Alex Cox. SEA Orion 35 mm
13 April 1987  Blood Simple. (US 1983). D: Joel Coen. SEA Orion 35 mm [Finnish theatrical premiere 27 Nov 1987]
17 April 1987  The Robe / Näin hänen kuolevan (US 1953). D: Henry Koster. SEA Orion 35 mm. The first CinemaScope movie screened in vintage 1:2,55 CinemaScope and magnetic sound. 
17 April 1987  Nazarin (MX 1958). D: Luis Buñuel. SEA Orion 35 mm. [2]
19 April 1987  The Adventures of Robin Hood / Robin Hoodin seikkailut (US 1938). D: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley. SEA Orion, brilliant 16 mm tv print - the end
19 April 1987  Heller Wahn / Rena illusionen / Sheer Madness (DE/FR 1983). SEA Orion 35 mm, SFI print
21 April 1987  That's Dancing! (US 1985). D: Jack Haley, Jr. SEA Orion 35 mm
21 April 1987  Dracula (GB 1958). D: Terence Fisher. SEA Orion 35 mm, Swedish print slightly cut
24 April 1987  Liebelei / Lemmenleikkiä (DE 1932). D: Max Ophuls. SEA Orion 35 mm nitrate - introduced by Claude Beylie
24 April 1987  Le Plaisir / Lemmenunelma (FR 1951). D: Max Ophuls. SEA Orion 35 mm, SFI-FA - introduced by Claude Beylie
25 April 1987  La tendre ennemie (FR 1936). D: Max Ophuls. SEA Orion 16 mm print from Claude Beylie, introduced by Claude Beylie - possibly the only screening of this film in Finland
25 April 1987  Madame De... / Salaperäiset korvarenkaat (FR 1953). D: Max Ophuls. SEA Orion 25 mm, SFI-FA, introduced by Claude Beylie
26 April 1987  Sans lendemain / Ilman huomispäivää (FR 1939). D: Max Ophuls. SEA Orion, 16 mm print from Claude Beylie, introduced by Claude Beylie
26 April 1987  Lola Montès (FR/DE 1955). D: Max Ophuls. SEA Orion 35 mm, Finnish release print 107 min, introduced by Claude Beylie
26 April 1987  Amerikai anzix / Amerikkalainen postikortti / American Postcard (HU 1977). D: Gabor Body. SEA Orion 35 mm - the beginning
27 April 1987  Accattone / Pummi (IT 1961). D: Pier Paolo Pasolini. SEA Orion 35 mm
27 April 1987  Edipo re / Oedipus Rex (IT/MA 1967). D: Pier Paolo Pasolini. SEA Orion 35 mm
28 April 1987  L'Age d'Or / Kulta-aika (FR 1930). D: Luis Buñuel. SEA Orion 35 mm - the end
29 April 1987  Arsenal (SU-UA 1929). D: Aleksandr Dovzhenko. SEA Orion 35 mm - SEA print not too hot
29 April 1987  Kuu on vaarallinen (FI 1961). D: Toivo Särkkä. SEA viewing table 35 mm, with Kari Lempinen - a print without moonlight swimming ("the swimming job")
30 April 1987  Fear in the Night (GB 1972). D: Jimmy Sangster. SEA Orion 35 mm - the beginning

March 1987 Helsinki-Tampere

Tex Avery: I Love to Singa (US 1936), a spoof of The Jazz Singer, starring Owl Jolson.

3 March 1987  Welcome to L.A. D: Alan Rudolph. Orion, 35 mm
4 March 1987  Die bleierne Zeit / Sisarukset. D: Margarethe von Trotta. Orion, 35 mm
5 March 1987  Tex Avery I. Orion, 16 mm
- Gold Diggers of '49
- I Love To Singa, US 1936
- Don't Look Now
- Egghead Rides Again
- Porky's Garden, US 1937
- Penguin Parade
- A Feud There Was
- Daffy Duck In Hollywood
- Cinderella Meets Fella, US 1938
- Hamateur Night
- A Day At the Zoo, US 1939

TAMPERE FILM FESTIVAL
6 March 1987  Arne Sucksdorff. Kino-Palatsi, 35 mm, nitrate and safety
- En sommarsaga (SE 1941)
- Vinden från väster (SE 1942)
- Sarvtid (SE 1943)
- Trut! (SE 1944)
- Gryning (SE 1944)
- Skuggor över snön (SE 1945)
6 March 1987 When the Wind Blows / Minne tuuli kuljettaa (1986). D: Jimmy T. Murakami. Kino-Palatsi, 35 mm
7 March 1987  Battling Butler. Buster Keaton [2] tv
7 March 1987  Jan Svankmajer. Kino-Palatsi, 35 mm
- Rakvickárna / Coffin Factory (CZ 1966)
- Byt / The Flat (CZ 1968)
- Zánik domu Usheru / The Fall of the House of Usher (CZ 1980)
- Do pivnice / Down to the Cellar (CZ 1983)
- Kyvadlu, jama a nadeje / The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (CZ 1983)
- Moznosti dialogu / Vuoropuhelun mahdollisuudet (CZ 1982)
7 March 1987  Vampiros en la Habana (CU 1985). D: Jean Padron. Kino-Palatsi, 35 mm
7 March 1987  Tampere Film Festival 1987 Prize Winners.
- För gästerne kommer. D: Jon Bang Carlsen.
- Street of Crocodiles. D: The Quay Brothers
- Szczurolap / The Rat Catcher. D: Andrzej Czarnecki
- Curriculum vitae. D: Pavel Koutsky
- Duschata / Soul. D: Oleg Kovatshev
- Hurjan pojan koti. D: K. J. Koski
- The Last Kanava. D: Heikki Paakkanen

10 March 1987  Tex Avery II, Orion, 16 mm
- Believe It Or Else
- Land of the Midnight Fun
- Fresh Fish
- Screwball Football, 1939
- Cross Country Detours
- A Garder at Mother Goose
- Circus Today, 1940
- Holiday Highlights
- A Crackpot Quail
- The Haunted Mouse
- Hollywood Steps Out, 1941
10 March 1987  A Star Is Born / Tapahtuipa Hollywoodissa (US 1937). D: William A. Wellman. Orion, 35 mm
11 March 1987  Tex Avery III, SEA viewing room, 16 mm
- Porky's Preview
- Heckling Hare
- All This and Rabbit Stew
- The Bug Parade, 1941
- Red Hot Riding Hood
- One Ham's Family, 1943
- Jerky Turkey
- Swing Shift Cinderella
- Wild and Woolfy, 1945
- Northwest Hounded Police, 1946
- Uncle Tom's Cabaña, 1947
12 March 1987  Flicka och hyacinter / Niin päättyi yö (SE 1950). D: Hasse Ekman. Orion, 35 mm
12 March 1987  70  vuotta Suomen itsenäisyyttä I, Orion, 35 mm
- Deutsche Hilfe für Finnland (1918)
- Kuvia Suomesta (1918)
- Ruotsalainen prikaati Helsingissä (1918)
- Suuri paraati (1918 / 1958)
- katkelmia elokuvasta Finlandia (1922)
- Hirvittävä laivaonnettomuus Näsijärvellä
- Mykästä ääneen -kooste : neljä pätkää:
    - Helsingin rautatieaseman aukio (1923)
    - Das Hotel Kämp (1925)
    - Graf Zeppelin (1930)
    - Ture Ara elokuvassa Sano se suomeksi (1931)
- Elanto I (1934)
- Yleisradion syysparaati (1935)
- Poliisi arkena ja kekrinä (1937)
- Vuoriöljy nykyaikaa palvelemassa (1938)
- Herää Helsinki! (1939)
- Hämeenkyrön heinänteko (1936 / 1939)
13 March 1987  The Strange One / Kiusaaja (US 1957). D: Jack Garfein. Orion, 35 mm
13 March 1987  Intermezzo (US 1939). D: Gregory Ratoff. Orion, 35 mm
15 March 1987  Strohfeuer / A Free Woman / Vapaa nainen (DE 1972). D: Volker Schlöndorff, co-SC+C: Margarethe von Trotta - I see the end. Orion, 16 mm
15 March 1987  Götter der Pest / Gods of the Plague (DE 1970). D: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Margarethe von Trotta. I see the beginning. Orion, 16 mm
17 March 1987  Screwball Squirrel (US 1944). D: Tex Avery. Private video screening, for Erkki Huhtamo & Erkki Astala
17 March 1987  Blue Velvet (US 1986). D: David Lynch. Private video screening, for Erkki Huhtamo & Erkki Astala [Finnish premiere 3 July 1987]
17 March 1987  Return of the Secaucus 7 (US 1971). D: John Sayles. Orion, 35 mm
17 March 1987  The Wind (US 1928). D: Victor Sjöström. Orion, 35 mm
19 March 1987  Thomas Graals bästa film (SE 1917). D: Mauritz Stiller. Orion, 35 mm
19 March 1987  70 vuotta Suomen itsenäisyyttä II. Orion, 35 mm
- Vanha Viipurimme (1940)
- Finlandia-katsaus n:o 46 (1944)
- Eduskuntavaalit Suomessa 1945 (1945)
- Varala - naisten paratiisi (1947)
- Etelän rytmejä (1950)
- Finlandia-katsaus n:o 200 (1953)
- Filmi saapuu (1954)
- J. K. Paasikivi 27.11.1870 - 14.12.1956 (1956)
- Teollista muotoilua (1958)
- Vappu (1964)
- Nainen astuu ulos kuvasta (1967)
- Graniittipoika (1979)
21 March 1987  Lianna (US 1982). D: John Sayles. Orion, 35 mm. (the second half)
22 March 1987  Tex Avery: the end. Orion, 16 mm
22 March 1987  Foreign Correspondent / Ulkomaan kirjeenvaihtaja (US 1940). D: Alfred Hitchcock. Orion, 35 mm
22 March 1987  Der Fangschuss / Armonlaukaus (DE 1976). D: Volker Schlöndorff. Margarethe von Trotta. Orion, 35 mm
26 March 1987  Point Blank / Tappajan jäljet (US 1967). D: John Boorman. Video
26 March 1987  Duel in the Sun / Kaksintaistelu auringossa (US 1946). D: King Vidor. Orion, 35 mm
27 March 1987  Cleopatra Jones (US 1973). D: Jack Starrett. SEA viewing table, 35 mm
27 March 1987  Spellbound / Noiduttu (US 1945). D: Alfred Hitchcock. Orion, 35 mm
28 March 1987  Ollin oppivuodet (FI 1920). D: Teuvo Puro. Orion, 35 mm
28 March 1987  Sången om den eldröda blomman / Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta (SE 1919). D: Mauritz Stiller. Orion, the beginning
29 March 1987  Tex Avery V, Orion, 16 mm
- Little Johnny Jet, 1953
- TV of Tomorrow, 1953
- Three Little Pups, 1953
- Drag-a-long Droopy, 1954
- Homesteader Droopy, 1954
- Farm of Tomorrow, 1954
- Dixialand Droopy, 1954
- Field and Scream, 1955
- The First Bad Man, 1955
- Deputy Droopy, 1955
- Cellbound, 1955
- Millionaire Droopy, 1956
- Sh-h-h-h-h!!, 1955
29 March 1987  Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum / Katharina Blumin menetetty maine (DE 1975). D: Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta. Orion, 35 mm
29 March 1987  Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages / Katkera herääminen (DE 1978). D: Margarethe von Trotta. Orion, the beginning
31 March 1987  Installation of video projection in Cinema Orion.
31 March 1987  Permanent Vacation / Loputon loma (US 1980). D: Jim Jarmusch. Orion, video projection premiere

Berlin Film Festival 17 Feb - 2 March 1987

Med Hondo: Sarraounia (BF/MT/FR 1986) starring Aï Keïta as Queen Sarraounia in the beautiful and grandiose anti-colonialist epic of African freedom fight. In Technovision and Fujicolor. Med Hondo's masterpiece was the highlight of the Berlin Film Festival in 1987. Please click on the image to enlarge it.

Separate blog entry: Rouben Mamoulian retrospective.

20 Feb 1987  The Color of Money / Suuret setelit (US 1986). D: Martin Scorsese. Zoo-Palast, 35 mm
20 Feb 1987  A Cor do seu Destino / The Colour of Destiny (BR 1986). D: Jorge Duran. Atelier am Zoo, 35 mm
21 Feb 1987  Vlčí bouda / Wolf's Hole (CZ 1986). D: Věra Chytilová. Zoo-Palast, 35 mm
21 Feb 1987  Vermischte Nachrichten / Miscellaneous News (DE 1986). D: Alexander Kluge. Arsenal
22 Feb 1987  Masques / Masks / Naamiot (FR 1987). D: Claude Chabrol. Gloria, 35 mm
22 Feb 1987  Скорбное бесчувствие / Skorbnoje bestshustvije / Murheellinen tunteettomuus / Mournful Unconcern (SU 1987). D: Aleksandr Sokurov. Zoo-Palast, 35 mm (the beginning)
22 Feb 1987  Shake! Otis at Monterey (US 1987). D: David Dawkins, Chris Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker. Otis Redding. Delphi, 35 mm
22 Feb 1987  Jimi Plays Monterey / Jimi Hendrix Montereyssä (US 1986). D: Chris Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker. Delphi, 35 mm
23 Feb 1987  'night, Mother / Hyvää yötä, äiti (US 1986). D: Tom Moore. Gloria, 35 mm
23 Feb 1987  Série noire S1.E21: Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma (CH/FR 1986). D: Jean-Luc Godard. Arsenal, video
23 Feb 1987  Sarraounia (BF/MT/FR 1986). D: Med Hondo. Akademie der Künste, 35 mm
24 Feb 1987  The Journey / Resan I (SE 1987). D: Peter Watkins. Delphi, 16 mm. 319 min = 5 h 19 min
25 Feb 1987  Children of a Lesser God / Sanaton rakkaus / Bortom alla ord (US 1986). D: Randa Haines. Zoo-Palast, 35 mm
26 Feb 1987  Vera (BR 1986). D: Sérgio Toledo. Gloria, 35 mm (the beginning)
26 Feb 1987  Der Tod des Empedokles / The Death of Empedocles (DE 1986). D: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub. Zoo-Palast, 35 mm
26 Feb 1987  Lambert, Hendricks & Co. (US 1964). D: Richard Leacock, D. A. Pennebaker. Arsenal
26 Feb 1987  Dance Black America (US 1983). D: Chris Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker. Arsenal
26 Feb 1987  Daybreak Express (US 1953). D: D. A. Pennebaker. Arsenal, 35 mm
26 Feb 1987  Light of Day / Matkalla maineeseen (US 1987). D: Paul Schrader. Zoo-Palast, 35 mm
27 Feb 1987  Тема / Tema / Teema / The Theme (SU 1979, full version released in 1986): D: Gleb Panfilov. Zoo-Palast, 35 mm
27 Feb 1987  Town Bloody Hall (US 1979). D: Chris Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker. Akademie der Künste, [16 mm?]
27 Feb 1987  Timothy Leary's Wedding (US 1964). D: D. A. Pennebaker. Akademie der Künste
27 Feb 1987  The Journey / Resan II (SE 1987). D: Peter Watkins. Delphi, 16 mm. Part II of total 14 h 33 min (873 min)
28 Feb 1987  Platoon / Platoon - nuoret sotilaat (US 1986). D: Oliver Stone. Zoo-Palast, 35 mm
28 Feb 1987  Acta General de Chile (1986). D: Miguel Littin. Akademie der Künste, 35 mm (the beginning)
28 Feb 1987  The Journey / Resan III (SE 1987). D: Peter Watkins. Delphi, 16 mm. Part III of total 14 h 33 min (873 min)
28 Feb 1987  Um Filme 100% Brasileiro (BR 1985). D: José Sette de Barros. Delphi
1 March 1987  Mélo / Musta hehku (FR 1986. D: Alain Resnaiss. Arsenal, 35 mm
1 March 1987  Napló szerelmeimnek / Diary for My Lovers (HU 1987). D: Márta Mészáros. Zoo-Palast, 35 mm (the beginning)

Rouben Mamoulian retrospective (Berlin Film Festival 1987)

Rouben Mamoulian: City Streets (US 1931) with Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney.

19 Feb 1987  Silk Stockings / Silkkisukat (US 1957). Helmut Arlt, video
20 Feb 1987  High, Wide and Handsome / Kultainen unelma (US 1937). Filmkunst 66. 35 mm
20 Feb 1987  City Streets / Suurkaupungin kadut (US 1931). Cinema Paris. 35 mm
21 Feb 1987  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Tri Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (US 1932). Cinema Paris. 35 mm
21 Feb 1987  Love Me Tonight / Rakasta minua tänä yönä (US 1932). Cinema Paris. 35 mm
21 Feb 1987  The Gay Desperado / Meidän roistojen kesken (US 1936). Zoo-Palast. 35 mm
22 Feb 1987  Rings On Her Fingers / Rakkautta ja huijausta (US 1942). Filmkunst 66. 35 mm
22 Feb 1987  Summer Holiday / Oi nuoruus (US 1948). Filmkunst 66. 35 mm
22 Feb 1987  Golden Boy / Kultapoika (US 1939). Filmkunst 66. 35 mm
23 Feb 1987  Becky Sharp / Elämän uhkapeli (US 1935). Cinema Paris. 35 mm
25 Feb 1987  Blood and Sand / Verta ja hiekkaa (US 1941). Cinema Paris, 35 mm
26 Feb 1987  The Mark of Zorro / Zorron merkki (US 1940). Filmkunst 66, 35 mm
26 Feb 1987  We Live Again / Katjuša (US 1934). Filimkunst 66, 35 mm
1 March 1987  Applause (US 1930). Cinema Paris. 35 mm
1 March 1987  Rouben Mamoulian Interview (GB 1984?). D: Philip Jenkinson
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POST FESTUM
2 April 1987  The Song of Songs / Korkea veisu (US 1933). Video

...
4 Oct 1964  The Mark of Zorro / Zorron merkki (US 1940) tv: Yle TV1
15 Nov 1975  Queen Christina / Kuningatar Kristiina (US 1933) tv: Yle TV2
June 1981  Silk Stockings / Silkkisukat (US 1957) Stockholm: Filmklubben, Filmhuset, 35 mm
Jan 1982  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Tri Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (US 1932). Stockholm: Filmklubben, Filmhuset, 16 mm
10 May 2006  The Song of Songs / Korkea veisu (US 1933) dvd: Marlene Dietrich Collection (Paramount)

Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987) was still alive during the Berlin tribute but did not attend it. Instead, we saw the recent Philip Jenkinson interview with him. I included in my MMM Film Guide of 1000 (later 1100) best films: Applause, Love Me Tonight, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, City Streets, Blood and Sand and The Mark of Zorro.

It was amazing that Mamoulian was so brilliant and assured since the very start of his own film career and the early years of sound film in general when everything was clumsy and awkward. He was formative in so many genres and idioms: the musical (Applause), the gangster film (City Streets), the horror film (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), out-Lubitsching Lubitsch in Love Me Tonight, out-Sternberging Sternberg  in The Song of Songs (with Dietrich) and out-Stillering Stiller in Queen Christina (with Garbo), pioneering in Technicolor (Becky Sharp), launching new stars (William Holden in Golden Boy) and superbly remaking the silent classics The Mark of Zorro and Blood and Sand in Technicolor. In Silk Stockings, Mamoulian did not out-Lubitsch the Lubitsch of Ninotchka, but Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire were at their greatest, and it was a brilliant ending to the master of the Broadway and Hollywood musical.

February 1987 Helsinki

Tengiz Abuladze: ვედრება / Vedreba / Molba (SU-GE 1967). Black and white in Sovscope. We had a mission of screening Soviet films shelved during the Brezhnev era, newly released during Glasnost by the Conflict Commission. This Georgian masterpiece was first screened in Orion in February 1987. 

1 Feb 1987  The Most Dangerous Game / Zaroffin koirat (US 1932). D: Ernest B. Schoedsack & Irving Pichel. Orion [3]
3 Feb 1987  Ambavi Suramis tsikhitsa / Legenda o Suramskoi kreposti / The Legend of the Suram Fortress (SU-GE 1985). D: Sergei Parajanov. Orion, 35 mm
4 Feb 1987  Nran guyne / Sayat Nova / Tsvet granata / The Colour of Pomegranates. (SU-AM 1969). D: Sergei Parajanov. Orion, 35 mm [4]
4 Feb 1987  1985 - elokuva elokuvasta (FI 1974). D: Aito Mäkinen. Orion, 35 mm
4 Feb 1987  Poro (FI 1969). D: Virke Lehtinen, Aito Mäkinen. Orion, 35 mm
5 Feb 1987  Hakuchu no torima / Violence at High Noon (JP 1966). D: Nagisa Oshima. Orion, 35 mm
8 Feb 1987  ვედრება / Vedreba / Molba (SU-GE 1967). D: Tengiz Abuladze. SEA viewing table, 35 mm
14 Feb 1987  Sherlock, Jr. (US 1924). Buster Keaton. tv Pirkkala
15 Feb 1987  Bye Bye Birdie / Kaikkien tyttöjen sankari (US 1963). D: George Sidney. Orion, 35 mm (I catch the end)
15 Feb 1987  Seishun zangoku monogatari / Cruel Story of Youth (JP 1960). D: Nagisa Oshima. Orion, 35 mm

January 1987 Helsinki

Francesco Maselli: Gli sbandati / [The Abandoned / The Lost Ones] (IT 1955) in our tribute to Lucia Bosè. Her greatest performance is as the Jewish partisan Lucia in this tragic masterpiece from wartime Italy in the year 1943. It takes place in the countryside around Milan.

2 Jan 1987  Cela s'appelle l'aurore / Veri kuohuu (FR/IT 1956). D: Luis Buñuel. Orion, 35 mm
2 Jan 1987  Toni (FR 1934). D: Jean Renoir. Orion, 35 mm
2 Jan 1987  The Band Wagon / Iskelmäkaruselli (US 1953). D: Vincente Minnelli. Orion, 35 mm
3 Jan 1987  Gigi (US 1958). D: Vincente Minnelli. Orion, 35 mm
3 Jan 1987  Some Came Running / Yli kaiken ymmärryksen (US 1958). D: Vincente Minnelli. Orion, 35 mm
4 Jan 1987  Home From the Hill / Aina kolmanteen polveen (US 1958). D: Vincente Minnelli. Orion, 35 mm [120 min print from SFI-FA, orig. 150 min]
4 Jan 1987  Two Weeks In Another Town / Kaksi viikkoa vieraassa kaupungissa (US 1962). Orion, 35 mm
7 Jan 1987  So Young, So Bad / Niin nuori ja niin paatunut (US 1950). D: Bernard Vorhaus. SEA print on the viewing table, 35 mm, with Matti Salo
7 Jan 1987  The Last Hurrah / Viimeinen koetus (US 1958). Orion, 35 mm
7 Jan 1987  La Chienne / Yöperhonen (FR 1932). Orion, 35 mm [2]
7 Jan 1987  Swamp Water / Suursuon salaisuus (US 1941). D: Jean Renoir. Orion, 35 mm [checking the beginning]
8 Jan 1987  A Matter of Time / Kohtalon tuulet (IT/US 1976). D: Vincente Minnelli. Orion, 35 mm
8 Jan 1987  Cops (US 1922). Buster Keaton. Orion, 35 mm
8 Jan 1987  Romance of a Horsethief / Hevosvarkaat (YU/IT/FR/US 1971). D: Abraham Polonsky. Orion, 35 mm
11 Jan 1987  Zéro de conduite / Nolla käytöksessä (FR 1933). D: Jean Vigo. Orion, 35 mm [2]
11 Jan 1987  Gli sbandati / Hehkuva tuli (IT 1955). D: Francesco Maselli. Orion, 35 mm
11 Jan 1987  Xia nü / Hsia nü / Kultainen hämähäkki / A Touch of Zen (TW/HK 1971). D: King Hu. Orion, 35 mm [2] [checking the beginning]
13 Jan 1987  Non c'e pace tra gli ulivi / Taistelu oliivipuiden varjossa (IT 1950). D: Giuseppe Di Santis. Orion, 35 mm
13 Jan 1987  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Tri Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (US 1932). D: Rouben Mamoulian. Orion, 35 mm [2]
13 Jan 1987  Listen To Britain (GB 1942). D: Humphrey Jennings & Stewart McAllister. Orion, 35 mm
13 Jan 1987  Ohm Krüger / Ohm Krüger (DE 1941). D: Hans Steinhoff. Orion, 35 mm. 115 min version
14 Jan 1987  La petite marchande d'allumettes (FR 1928). D: Jean Renoir. SEA viewing table, 35 mm
15 Jan 1987  La p'tite Lilie (FR 1927). D: Cavalcanti. Orion, 35 mm
15 Jan 1987  Sur un air de Charleston (FR 1927). D: Jean Renoir. Orion, 35 mm
17 Jan 1987  Nana (FR 1926). D: Jean Renoir. Orion, 35 mm. /21 fps/ 118 min
17 Jan 1987  Caged Heat / Naarashäkki (US 1973). D: Jonathan Demme. Orion, 35 mm
18 Jan 1987  Suomalainen savusauna (FI 1978). D: Mikko Kemppinen. Orion
18 Jan 1987  Pleure pas la bouche pleine / Älä itke suu täynnä (FR 1973). D: Pascal Thomas. Orion, 35 mm [I watch 40 min from the beginning]
21 Jan 1987  Konsertti - Bachia Ateneumissa (FI 1963). D: Aito Mäkinen. Orion, 35 mm
21 Jan 1987  Eläviä kuvia (FI 1964). D: Aito Mäkinen. Orion, 35 mm
21 Jan 1987  ABC-lahja (FI 1970). Filmiryhmä. Orion, 35 mm
21 Jan 1987  Silta (FI 1973). D: Aito Mäkinen. Orion, 35 mm
21 Jan 1987  Juulia (FI 1964), episode from Onnelliset leikit, D: Aito Mäkinen. Orion, 35 mm
21 Jan 1987  Marimekko (FI 1967). D: Aito Mäkinen. Orion, 35 mm
22 Jan 1987  Linna Suomessa (FI 1983) . D: Aito Mäkinen. Orion, 35 mm
22 Jan 1987  Vaaksa vaaraa (FI 1965). D: Aito Mäkinen. Orion, 35 mm [extracts selected by AM]
22 Jan 1987  Työ (FI 1978). Filmiryhmä. Orion, 35 mm
22 Jan 1987  Muotoilijan maailma - Timo Sarpaneva (FI 1976). D: Aito Mäkinen. Orion, 35 mm
22 Jan 1987  Mazurka / Masurkka (DE 1935). D: Willi Forst. Orion, 35 mm
23 Jan 1987  Mark of the Vampire (US 1935). D: Tod Browning. Orion
23 Jan 1987  Frankenstein (US 1931). D: James Whale. Orion
24 Jan 1987  The Man From the Diners' Club / Luottomies liisterissä (US 1963). D: Frank Tashlin. Orion, 35 mm
24 Jan 1987  Muzykanci / Musikantit (PL 1960). D: Kazimierz Karabasz. Orion, 35 mm
24 Jan 1987  Dwaj ludzie z szafa / Kaksi miestä ja kaappi (PL 1958). D: Roman Polanski. Orion, 35 mm
24 Jan 1987  On the Bowery / Kadun orjat (US 1956). D: Lionel Rogosin. Orion, 35 mm [2]
24 Jan 1987  Zoo (NL 1961). D: Bert Haanstra. Orion, 35 mm
24 Jan 1987  Britannia Hospital / Britannia Hospital - juhlapäivä (GB 1982). D: Lindsay Anderson. Orion, 35 mm
27 Jan 1987  Les Mistons / Vintiöt (FR 1957). D: Francois Truffaut. Orion, 35 mm
27 Jan 1987  Bakaruhában / Pieni seikkailu (HU 1957). D: Imre Fehér. Orion, 35 mm
28 Jan 1987  Sandudd (FI 1976). D: Virke Lehtinen, Aito Mäkinen. Orion - the best of today's bunch
28 Jan 1987  Kolme naista (FI 1976). D: Aito Mäkinen, Virke Lehtinen. Orion
28 Jan 1987  Elämän laatu (FI 1976). D: Aito Mäkinen. Orion
28 Jan 1987  Maitotila (FI 1980). Filmiryhmä. Orion
28 Jan 1987  Tasavallan juuret (FI 1984). D: Virke Lehtinen, Aito Mäkinen. Orion
31 Jan 1987  Tini zabutyh predkiv / Teni zabytyh predkov / Menneitten sukupolvien varjot / Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (SU-UA 1965). D: Sergei Parajanov. SEA viewing table, 35 mm [2]
31 Jan 1987  Nran guyne / Sayat Nova / Tsvet granata / The Colour of Pomegranates. (SU-AM 1969). D: Sergei Parajanov. SEA viewing table, 35 mm [3]
31 Jan 1987  Ambavi Suramis tsikhitsa / Legenda o Suramskoi kreposti / The Legend of the Suram Fortress (SU-GE 1985). D: Sergei Parajanov. SEA viewing table, 35 mm
31 Jan 1987  McCabe and Mrs. Miller / McCabe & Mrs. Miller (US 1971). D: Robert Altman. Orion, 35 mm