Here's the final writeup of the movies I saw at the Helsinki International Film Festival this year:

( Lion's Den )

Gah! I'm starting to feel the effects of

1) working 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. shifts all week (I'm definitely NOT a morning person),
2) having training for new stuff at work almost all day from Tuesday on, tomorrow included, when I have another 7 to 3 shift...
3) going to at least one movie every night from Saturday on.

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Appleseed Ex Machina is an anime action movie that is set in the future where the pacific city-state of Olympus is suddenly beset by mysterious terrorist attacks that seem to have no other purpose but to cause chaos. And this in the eve of a major summit that would place all the world's satellite systems under Olympus's control ( Read more... )

Vexille is an anime film set in the near future after a period of 10 years where Japan had been closed off from the rest of the world. A US special unit called S.W.O.R.D. is sent on a covert mission to investigate what has been going on in the country for all these years. The findings are pretty bleak, reminding of the consequences of humans trying ( Read more... )

Om Shanti Om was just as much fun as I remembered. It's got so many allusions to all kinds of filmi stuff that there's something new every time I see it. And this time as special since I got to see it in a movie theatre.

I still love the Filmfare sequence. And Mohabbat Man. And Dard-e-Disco. And the nods to Hrithik winning awards. And the Kapoor ( Read more... )

The Helsinki International Film Festival started for me today with Heartbeat Detector (La Question Humaine), a French film where the main protagonist is a psychologist for a big company who is asked to investigate some worrying behaviour by the company CEO ( Read more... )

No huhhuh, tulipahan tänään vietettyä reilu puoltoista tuntia jonossa Lasipalatsin reunalla ennen kuin sain lunastettua R&A:han varaamani liput :P. Jakelivat he sentään siellä vapareita jonottajille hyvityksenä järkyttävän pitkästä jonosta...

Aika paljon näytti olevan viime hetken lipunlunastajia liikkeellä puhumattakaan niistä joilla ei vielä ( Read more... )

I finally got around to deciding what films I want to see on this year's Helsinki International Film Festival (or Rakkautta & Anarkiaa for Finns), and about time, since the festival starts this weekend. The tickets came on sale already last Wednesday, but luckily enough I had no trouble reserving tickets for the exact films and showings I wanted ( Read more... )

I realized that I haven't yet posted on the rest of the films I saw at the film festival last week. This week has been pretty exhausting at work, since I've been on a very intensive training course in my new team. It's all been very interesting, but also very exhausting, since I've been trying to absorb huge amounts of new information in a very ( Read more... )

Yosh! The tickets to the Helsinki International Film Festival came on sale today and I managed to get tickets to just the films I wanted to just the showings that fit my schedule the best :). I wised up from last year, when I tried to see two festival passes' worth of films (22) - that was just a too much sitting on uncomfortable chairs... This ( Read more... )