Discovering Teuvo Tulio

11/15/08 to 12/4/08

See why Teuvo Tulio, the wild and willful director of Finnish melodramas from the 1930s and 1940s, is looked upon by Aki Kaurismäki and others as an incomparable master of the form.

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  • The Way You Wanted Me, November 23

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  • The Song of the Scarlet Flower

    Saturday, November 15 6:30 PM
    A classic novel adapted with “stunning natural vistas . . . luminous cinematography.”-UCLA
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  • In the Fields of Dreams

    Wednesday, November 19 7:00 PM
    A sexually frank melodrama of a shepherdess led astray-the apotheosis of Finnish director Tulio's exuberant use of nature cinematography, classical music, montage, and startling juxtaposition, adding up to an eroticism of the cinema.
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  • The Way You Wanted Me

    Sunday, November 23 5:30 PM
    Tulio shot this brutal, tender melodrama in 1943, as war raged in Finland and the nation's future hung in the balance.
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  • The Cross of Love

    Thursday, December 4 6:30 PM
    “A mixture of Stroheim, Sternberg and Cecil B. DeMille.”-UCLA
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