The films together represent a unique creative vision—one that combines genre ambitions with a defiantly indie sensibility and an unexpected sense of humor. For the first time ever, all three features are screening together in New York City, as part of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art dedicated to Järvi-Laturi, who died last year. On today’s episode, Film Comment editors Clinton Krute and Devika Girish invited Steve Macfarlane, one of the curators of the MoMA retrospective, and Hannu Björkbacka, a Finnish critic, for an overview of Järvi-Laturi’s career and work.
