#valkoinen peura

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Mirjami Kuosmanen in The White Reindeer (Valkoinen peura, 1952)

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The White Reindeer (1952) | dir. Erik Blomberg

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Valkoinen peura (The White Reindeer | Erik Blomberg | 1952)

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The White Reindeer (Erik Blomberg, 1952)

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The White Reindeer (Valkoinen Peura, 1952) Directed by Erik Blomberg Written by Erik Blomberg and Mirjami Kuosmanen

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The White Reindeer aka Valkoinen peura (1952) dir. Erik Blomberg

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VALKOINEN PEURA 1952 MITÄ HELVETTIÄ MIKSEI SUOMALAISET JATKANU KAUHUELOKUVIEN TEKEMISTÄ?? TÄÄ ON SAAKELIN HYVÄ????

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Travelling through Norway for another week but actually I just wanna get home to watch the movies I bought in Oslo

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24 Classic (Non-Holiday Related) Films to Give You Vintage Wintery Vibes

Movies for when the Christmas and Holiday season is over, but you still want to watch something to evoke winter from another time.

*I went for anything pre-1980 for those who were looking for something more on the vintage/retro side. I also tried to pick from a selection of different genres to suit whatever mood you might be in.

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Action/Adventure:

The Call of the Wild (1935)

The Call of the Wild (1972)

Day of the Outlaw (1959)

Snow Trail/銀嶺の果て (1947)

Comedy:

Charade (1963)

The Gold Rush (1925)

Hit the Ice (1943)

Winter A-Go-Go (1965)

Drama:

Anna Karenina (1935)

Anna Karenina (1948)

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

The Idiot/白痴 (1951)

Love Story (1970)

Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Horror/Crime Noir:

The Abominable Snowman (1957)

On Dangerous Ground (1951)

The Snow Woman/怪談雪女郎 (1968)

Spellbound (1945)

The White Reindeer/Valkoinen peura (1952)

Musical:

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Ski Party (1965)

Snow Gets In Your Eyes (1938)

Sun Valley Serenade (1941)

Wild Wild Winter (1966)

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The White Reindeer (Finnish: Valkoinen peura) is a 1952 folk horror drama film directed by Erik Blomberg in his feature film debut. He made the script with his wife Mirjami Kuosmanen, who is playing the leading role. It was entered in competition at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival and earned the Jean Cocteau-led jury special award for Best Fairy Tale Film.

Blomberg interviewed few local people for the film and made some background work. However the idea for the film was purely inspired by the daydreaming of his wife, old European folk tales and anthropology from Africa (more precisely shamanistic witch beliefs of the Azande -tribe).

The Sámi (/ˈsɑːmi/ SAH-mee; also spelled Sami or Saami) are a Finno-Ugric-speaking people inhabiting the region of Sápmi (formerly known as Lapland). There are some reindeer myths related to this movie in their mythology (old religion) in some areas. Such as half human half a deer - god.

The Seita is a holy place, A Sami sacred place. One of the well known Seita is Ukko’s island. It is a rocky island in lake inari. Reindeer was also the most popular sacrificial animal in bigger rituals, fish or fat of the fish was common for fishermen. If the matter was small then there was no need for animal sacrifice. There are stories of human sacrifices but these stories can also be legends and ghost stories.

Below: I got the chance to visit Ukko’s island in winter 2023 with the snowmobile

Witches Drum in conjunction with the magic singing spells and different powders is seen in the film. The witch's drum was usually an oval small drum covered with reindeer skin with some patterns drawn on the membrane the drumstick or rather the hammer was made of reindeer bone horn. Or it could be also metal. Rings made of metal were placed on the top of the membrane and moved over the patterns. The Shaman interpreted the meanings of the patterns and guided the rings where depending on whether intention was good or bad. In a 1673 book Lapponia you can find drawings copied from the original drums. Most of the drums were later destroyed by the Christian priests.

The most scary mentioned “real” thing in the film is Ruumiinmulta (bodily soil). It was a poison used in magical revenge. Soil could be just soil from the graveyard, but more powerful soil was collected from the corpse.

Above: Very rare silver jewelry that was found from Ukko’s island ( Sami museum Siida in Inari ) also you can see the drums rings & bone hammer below it. Below: Aurora in the center of Inari village & The photo of the witches drum is from the Siida museum (the Christian priests destroyed every drum from Finland so this drum is borrowed from Sweden- hopefully they will donate the drum to the museum permanently).

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Mirjami Kuosmanen in The White Reindeer (Valkoinen peura, 1952)

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Las 211 peliculas que he visto en 2022 (parte 1)

En negrita las que os recomiendo:

1. El sexto sentido (Nemesio Manuel Sobrevila, 1929)

2. El pan nuestro de cada día (King Vidor, 1934)

3. Luna Nueva (Howard Hawks, 1940)

4. Un sueño americano (King Vidor, 1944).

5. Breve encuentro (David Lean, 1945)

6. El capitán Kidd (Rowland V. Lee, 1945)

7. Lazos humanos (Elia Kazan, 1945)

8. La bella y la bestia (Jean Cocteau, 1946)

9. Domador de sirenas (Irving Pichel, 1948)

10. La fuerza del destino (Abraham Polonsky, 1948)

11. Nunca la olvidare (George Stevens, 1948)

12. Vida en sombras (Lorenzo Llobet Gracia, 1949)

13. Milagro en Milan (Vittorio de Sica, 1951)

14. Umberto D (Vittorio de Sica, 1952)

15. Valkoinen peura [El reno blanco] (Erik Blomberg, 1952)

16. El salario del miedo (H G Clouzot, 1953)

17. La loba (Alberto Lattuada, 1953)

18. Los apuros de un pequeño tren (Charles Crichton, 1953)

19. Tarantula (Jack Arnold, 1955)

20. El ferroviario (Pietro Germi, 1956).

21. La mala semilla (Mervyn LeRoy, 1956).

22. De dode tjern [El lago de los muertos] (Kåre Bergstrøm, 1958)

23. Cover Girl Killer (Terry Bishop, 1959)

24. Horror en el Museo Negro (Arthur Crabtree, 1959).

25. Beat Girl (Edmond T. Gréville, 1960)

26. El hotel de los horrores (John Moxley, 1960)

27. La sangre seca (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1960)

28. Macario (Robert Gavaldon, 1960)

29. Marea nocturna (Curtis Harrington, 1961)

30. El poder de la mafia (Alberto Lattuada, 1962)

31. Historias de terror (Roger Corman, 1962)

32. Vida para Ruth (Basil Dearden, 1962)

33. El demonio (Brunello Rondi, 1963).

34. El especulador (Vittorio de Sica, 1963)

35. Las tres caras del miedo (Mario Bava, 1963)

36. The small world of Sammy Lee (Ken Hughes, 1963)

37. El extraño viaje (Fernando Fernan-Gomez, 1964)

38. La mujer de la arena (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)

39. Los corceles de fuego (Sergei Parajanov, 1964)

40. España insólita (Javier Aguirre, 1965)

41. El ojo del diablo (J Lee Thompson, 1966)  

42. Kriminal (Umberto Lenzi, 1966)

43. Las Brujas (Cyril Frankel, 1966)

44. El desconocido de Shandigor (Jean-Louis Roy, 1967)

45. Corrupción (Robert Hartford-Davis, 1968)

46. La maldicion del altar rojo (Vernon Sewell, 1968)

47. Mr Freedom (William Klein, 1968)

48. Satanik (Piero Vivarelli, 1968)

49. Un día tranquilo en el campo (Elio Petri, 1968)

50. Queimada! (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969)

51. Ya soy una mujer (David Greene, 1969)

52. 4 moscas sobre terciopelo gris (Dario Argento, 1970)

53. El martillo de las brujas (Otakar Vavra, 1970)

54. Lokis. Rekopis profesora Wittembacha [Lokis. El manuscrito del Profesor Wittembach] (Janusz Majewski, 1970)

55. Valerie y su semana de las maravillas (Jaromil Jireš, 1970)

56. Bahía de sangre (Mario Bava, 1971).

57. La maldición de los Bishop (John D Hancock, 1971)

58. Angustia de silencio (Lucio Fulci, 1972)

59. Lejos de los arboles (Jacinto Esteva, 1972).

60. San Francisco, ciudad desnuda (Stuart Rosenberg, 1973)

61. Torso: Violencia Carnal (Sergio Martino, 1973)

62. Sintomas (Jose Ramon Larraz, 1974)

63. Trastornado (Alan Ormsby y Jeff Gillen, 1974)

64. Blue Moon (Louis Malle, 1975)

65. El quimérico inquilino (Roman Polanski, 1976)

66. God told me to (Larry Cohen, 1976)

67. Foes (John Coats, 1977)

68. La centinela (Michael Winner, 1977)

69. La ultima ola (Peter Weir, 1977)

70. El dinero de los demás (Christian de Chalonge, 1978)

71. Cristo se paro en Eboli (Francesco Rosi, 1979)

72. La hipótesis de un cuadro robado (Raul Ruiz, 1979)

73. Profecía maldita (John Frankenheimer, 1979)

74. Impacto (Brian de Palma, 1981)

75. Vida/Perra (Javier Aguirre, 1982)

76. Los jueces de la ley (Peter Hyams, 1983)

77. Ojos de fuego (Avery Crounse, 1983)

78. 1,2,3... Splash (Ron Howard, 1984)

79. Los santos inocentes (Mario Camus, 1984).

80. Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)

81. Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon, 1985)

82. 007: Alta tensión (John Glen, 1987)

83. El príncipe de las tinieblas (John Carpenter, 1987)

84. Walker (Alex Cox, 1987)

85. La tumba de las luciérnagas (Isao Takahata, 1988)

86. The Dreaming (Mario Andreacchio, 1988)

87. Un lugar llamado Milagro (Robert Redford, 1988)

88. Celia (Ann Turner, 1989)

89. Cuando fuimos brujas (Nietzchka Keene, 1990)

90. Temblores (Ron Underwood, 1990)

91. Clearcut (Ryszard Bugajski, 1991)

92. Mississippi Masala (Mira Nair, 1991)

93. Un lugar en el mundo (Adolfo Aristarain, 1992)

94. Anchoress (Chris Newby, 1993)

95. Dark Waters (Mariano Baino, 1993)

96. Lo que queda del día (James Ivory, 1993)

97. Lazos Ardientes (The Wachowskis, 1996)

98. Nubes pasajeras (Aki Kaurismaki, 1996)

99. Una gran noche (Stanley Tucci, Campbell Scott, 1996)

100. Salvar al soldado Ryan, (Steven Spielberg, 1998).

101. CQ (Roman Coppola, 2001)

102. Funny ha ha (Andrew Bujalski, 2002)

103. Hotel (Jessica Hausner, 2004)

104. Noroi (Kôji Shiraishi, 2005)

105. The Dark (John Fawcett, 2005)

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Valkoinen Peura, 1952. Erik Blomberg.

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The White Reindeer (Erik Blomberg, 1952)

[gellavonhamster]

monthly media recap: may 2023

the lusty month of May! this one is gonna be long

read:

The Terror by Arthur Machen - a properly unsettling short novel about strange murders happening in England and Wales during World War II. I gotta say, I think the narrator is wrong :D as in, based on the story, I have a slightly different opinion on the cause of what happened

The Great Return by Arthur Machen - a novella about the reappearance of the Holy Grail in a small Welsh village; short, but beautiful

The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood - not bad apart from, as usual, certain period-typical yikes, but after Machen and M.R. James it just doesn't seem as good, and the endings to many stories felt too abrupt to me. However, I am a big fan of the character whose rooms were haunted by his friend's ghost, so he went to his other friend's place to study because "there's no hallucination about that exam; I must pass that whatever happens."

Issues No. 1-3 of the Hellebore zine - yep, still reading this, still in an absolutely random order. Witch trials, poison plants, the cult of Pan and other good shit; I've bookmarked the names of some books I might give a try later. I feel like the articles in earlier issues were more, uh, informal and essay-like and became more scientific as the zine continued to be released, which I think is a good change tbh

Temeraire series, Books 4-7 (Empire of Ivory, Victory of Eagles, Tongues of Serpents, and Crucible of Gold) by Naomi Novik - hell yeah! I started this series in 2019 (I believe?), read the first three books, loved them, but then kind of forgot to continue. Catching up on it now and greatly enjoying the alternate history (in very broad strokes: Napoleonic wars with sentient DRAGONS in the air force), constant adventures, anti-colonialist themes, and the extremely likeable cast.

+ progress on Lancelot-Grail: done with The Quest for the Holy Grail, The Death of Arthur, and the first part of Post-Vulgate (The Merlin Continuation). Currently reading the Post-Vulgate version of the Grail quest and Book 8 of of Temeraire - Blood of Tyrants

watched:

Daisy Jones & The Six (2023) - there were changes in comparison to the book that I liked (loved Simone's storyline in the show, for example) and that I disliked. I think the novel and the adaptation work together best. The soundtrack is amazing, and the original songs are very good even out of context

Valkoinen peura / The White Reindeer (1952) - older horror films often are more haunting than the newer ones despite limited special effects and mostly relying on things like lighting and music - or maybe because of that - and this Finnish film is a good example of that. God forbid women do anything (turn into a murderous reindeer)

November (2017) - fascinating folk horror set in 19th century Estonia - mundane magic, deals with the devil, and the unrequited love no spells can fix. Beautiful and sad and very well-made

Yellowjackets (season 2, 2021-?) - AAAAAAA!!! I know many people found this season much worse than s1, but I honestly enjoyed it, even if I didn't agree with all decisions (they better do something unexpected about Van's cancer, or I'll be mad). The finale is devastating, but I kinda expected that to happen :( it was one of the most likely character deaths. Alas, the only one of these women I'd be ready to let go is the one who's certainly not dying unless they all die in the end (which is not that unlikely, I guess). Anyway, this is one of my favourite shows at the moment, and I'm really excited for season 3 (and the mysterious bonus episode?..)

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FRIKIANA ADICCIÓN: FRIKIVIDAD DE JALOGÜIN: FOLK HORROR

VALKOINEN PEURA (1952), JUNGFRUKÄLLAN (1960), NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT (1973), LITAN (1982), BLOODBATH AT THE HOUSE OF DEATH (1984), VENENO PARA HADAS (1986), LAS AMANTES DEL SEÑOR DE LA NOCHE (1986), THE WITCH (2015), GOKSEONG (2016), THE RITUAL (2017), APOSTLE (2018)