Sodankylä ikuisesti: Ensimmäisen elokuvamuiston kaiho (1/3) / Sodankylä Forever, Part One: The Yearning for the First Cinema Experience AND Sodankylä ikuisesti: Valon draama (3/3) / Sodankylä Forever, Part Three: Drama of Light

Series credits: Sodankylä ikuisesti, neljä elokuvaa: Elokuvan vuosisata ja Trilogia: 1: Ensimmäisen elokuvamuiston kaiho, 2: Ikuinen aika, 3: Valon draama / Sodankylä för evigt, fyra filmer: Filmens århundrade och Trilogin / Sodankylä Forever, four films: The Century of the Cinema and the Trilogy.
    Suomi © 2010–2011. PC: Nosferatu Oy / Bufo Film Production Company. P: Ilkka Mertsola, Mark Lwoff. Yle Yhteistuotannot: Erkki Astala. Co-producers: Lapin Liitto, Sodankylän Elokuvajuhlat Oy. D+SC: Peter von Bagh. DP: Arto Kaivanto, Juice Huhtala. S: Martti Turunen. ED+colour timing: Petteri Evilampi. Digitization: Jukka Reitmaa, Mikko Sippola. Photographers: Lauri Yli-Tepsa, Malla Hukkanen, Marja Niskanen, Santeri Happonen, Tuula Alajoki. Digitization of photographs:  Jaana Rannikko. Translations: Mikko Lyytikäinen, Outi Kainulainen. Multi-lingual, colour & b&w ‒ total duration of the four movies 270 min

There was a programme change as Sodankylä ikuisesti: Elokuvan vuosisata had not arrived, but the trilogy had. We screened the first and the third film of the trilogy, introduced by Peter von Bagh. Yle Export digibeta, Cinema Orion, Helsinki (Peter von Bagh), 11 Dec 2013

Sodankylä ikuisesti: Ensimmäisen elokuvamuiston kaiho (1/3) (2010) (2012) / Sodankylä ikuisesti osa 1/3 / Sodankylä Forever, Part One: The Yearning for the First Cinema Experience. FI 2012. Production year: 2010. First telecast: 8.7.2012 Yle Teema ‒ 59 min
    Featuring: Maud Linder, Jean Dréville, Roy Ward Baker, Francesco Rosi, Costa-Gavras, Claude Goretta, Victor Erice, Vincent Sherman, Val Guest, Jean Rouch, Dino Risi, Jerry Schatzberg, Bob Rafelson, Wim Wenders, Jean-Charles Tacchella, Stanley Donen, Andrei Konchalovsky, Francis Ford Coppola, Irvin Kershner, Richard Fleischer, Emir Kusturica, Claude Chabrol, Agnès Varda, István Szabó, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jacques Demy, Terry Gilliam, John Boorman, Milos Forman, and Manoel de Oliveira.

Sodankylä ikuisesti: Valon draama (3/3) / Sodankylä Forever, Part Three: Drama of Light. FI 2012. Production year: 2011. First telecast: 22.7.2012 Yle Teema ‒ 57 min
    Featuring: Ettore Scola, Bob Rafelson, Robert Parrish, Víctor Erice, Gianni Amelio, Francis Ford Coppola, Francesco Rosi, Enzo Serafin, Vincent Sherman, John Boorman, Sergio Sollima, Chantal Akerman, Laslo Benedek, Roger Corman, Milos Forman, Samuel Fuller, István Szabó, Roy Ward Baker, Claude Sautet, Claude Goretta, Jerry Schatzberg, Terry Gilliam, Jean Rouch, Jafar Panahi, Samira Makhmalbaf, Abbas Kiarostami, Ivan Passer, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Stanley Donen, Alberto Lattuada, and Gian Vittorio Baldi.

In memoriam Eleanor Parker (1922-2013).

I blogged about this series last year.

Touched by magic: the magic of the first film, and the magic of light.

The four engrossing movies about the Midnight Sun Film Festival keep growing. They are tapestries of multiple associations. Watching them, we are in good company. In the one about the first film, we reflect on childhood from the vantage point of today. In the one about the drama of light, we compare the light on the screen with the light of the midnight sun.