Conventional wisdom suggests that 35mm film is going the way of the dodo, but Aki Kaurismäki has never been conventional.
Long a favorite among arthouse audiences, the Finnish filmmaker has made an unsurprising — though not unwelcome — pledge: never to make a digital film.“I will die with my boots on.
I won’t make a digital film in this life,” he tells the Sydney Morning Herald in a wide-ranging interview.
“Cinema is made from light.
I am a filmmaker, not a pixel-maker.”He doesn’t plan on making a movie about the wealthy anytime soon, either.
“Of course, the working class is not such a sexy and commercial subject, I understand from the popcorn audience,”Kaurismäki continues.
“But I couldn’t write dialogue for upper-class people because I wouldn’t know what they say.
I don’t know if they talk at all.
Maybe they are just shopping.
And selling and buying stocks.
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