Friday, June 17, 2011

Leffaraati [Movie Jury] hosted by Jukka Virtanen

Koulu (School), Sodankylä (Midnight Sun Film Festival), 17 June 2011. The judge was Jukka Virtanen, and the members of the jury were Kari Väänänen, Atik Ismail, Minna Joenniemi, and Neil Hardwick.

The Juke Box Jury format was popular in Finnish tv under the title Levyraati. The show was transmitted in 1961-2005, hosted by Jukka Virtanen in 1980–1997. The ratings were 0 to 10.

Opening Speech (Norman McLaren, CA 1960): 8,9,5,6
Dom / The House (Walerian Borowczyk & Jan Lenica, PL 1959): 6,9,10,0
Uppbrott / Departure (Arne Sucksdorff, SE 1949): 10, 10, 3, 7
Lambeth Walk [the Hitler trick spoof] (Charles A. Ridley, GB 1948): 9,8,6,11
Ssaki / Mammals (Roman Polanski, PL 1962) 8,10,5,9

Jukka Virtanen conjured up a great spirit of fun in this spoof jury session, where the films were all quite good. I saw all but the last film of the show (Elsa by Marja Pensala was the winner).

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