Can't Miss It: Sunday

If you were fidgeting during There Will Be Blood thinking, "GAH! This isn't obscure enough! Where are some old Finnish movies?" the Northwest Film Forum can help. As that is no more than two people, tops, and one lives in Finland, we're providing some friendly hype for their Finnish New Wave series.

Today they're screening Eight Deadly Shots, which gets 8.8 out of 10 stars on IMDB:

In a small Finnish rural community in the winter of 1969, a man shot four policemen who came to arrest him at his home. Director Mikko Niskanen went to visit this man in prison and partially based the script of this fictional film on their conversation. EIGHT DEADLY SHOTS dramatizes the helplessness of an individual in an unjust society. The film portrays the hardship of life for a small farmer's family. Though an itinerant preacher promises the joys of heaven as liberation from the gloom, alcohol brings numbness, and violence a brief feeling of power and life, none of these can provide salvation.

As stated by Niskanen in the introduction, "This film does not claim to reproduce a real event although the story is based on it in some important respects. This is the truth I have seen and experienced, born myself in these surroundings."

The admittedly biased but informative NWFF peeps say, "This film is absolutely brilliant and you only have one day to see it. It'll likely never make its way back to Seattle because it's part of a number of under appreciated national cinemas."

Finns of Seattle, there are a number of bars in the neighborhood.

3, 6, 9pm* // Northwest Film Forum // Tickets $8.50 general, $5 member

*or not. The website says 3, 6, 9. The ticket order form says 6:45 and 9:30. And below that it says 6:00 7:15 & 9:00.