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4 unusual facts about Mika Kaurismäki


Kenny Hughes

Kenneth Hughes has worked with a wide range of recognized names such as Madonna, Meryl Streep, Michael Bay, Christopher Columbus, Tracey Ullman, Julie Taymor, Jim Carrey, the Bee Gees, Robert Zemeckis, Matthew Ralston, Coen Brothers, the ISO dance company, the Diavalo Dance Theater, the Rogue Go-Go Dance Company, Zubin Mehta, Mika Kaurismäki, Amy Brenneman, Val Kilmer and others.

L.A. Without a Map

L.A. Without a Map is a 1998 film directed by Mika Kaurismäki and written by Mika Kaurismäki and Richard Rayner, based on his novel.

Moro no Brasil

To make this documentary, the Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki has traveled 4,000 kilometers, crossed three states in the Northwest of Brazil, and spoken to more than thirty musicians, most of them street musicians and unknown to foreigners.

Sivuca

Archival footage of his work with Makeba can be seen in Mika Kaurismäki's documentary "Mama Africa" (2011).


São Paulo International Film Festival

The list of international filmmakers (including Brazilian directors) consisted of Wolfgang Becker, Maria de Medeiros, Hanna Elias, Amos Gitai, Mika Kaurismäki, Jim McBride, Phillip Noyce, Ming-liang Tsai, Andrea Vecchiato, Caetano Veloso, Yoshishige Yoshida, Theo Angelopoulos, Gian Vittorio Baldi, Marcho Bechis, Laís Bodanzky, Beto Brant, Manoel de Oliveira, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin, Jerzy Stuhr, and Wim Wenders.


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