When lemminkainen tries and fails to recover the sampo, louhi steals the sun, plunging the world into frozen darkness. Retromedias double bill of the magic voyage of sinbad and the day the earth froze is a good encoding of good transfers of what appear to be original materials in good condition. Sadly, the original release of the film is unavailable and longoverdue. The art of early european cinema 2019, the coauthor of screening statues. As with the other feature on the dvd, the picture quality of the day the earth froze suffers from maddeningly shifting colors and a soft image. Its a cool fantasy film in its own right, with some truly amazing visuals. Marvin has some awesome career credits, but my favorite by far is that he was the voice of robbie the robot. Find det bedste udvalg genren i drama, musical, komedie, adventure, krig, kriminalitet, romantik, fantasy, mystery, thriller, biografi, dokumentar, horror, scifi. Watch earth days american experience official site pbs. Day the earth froze, insert poster original vintage. The film ends with scenes of the people of kalevala looking to the bright sky in wonder and happiness.
Interestingly, the gallery features the american movie posters and lobby. The main character genuinely surfs a log down a riveryou dont see that nowadays really, both of these films capture scenes from exotic, obscure cultures from somewhere in the former soviet union or eastern europe. Mar 16, 2011 sampo has been released in different versions. The kalevala is a sprawling epic, to say the least, and the script of this film only concentrates on the first and third vainamoinen cycles the forging and subsequent loss of the sampo, the first lemminkainen cycle lemminkainens death and revival, and louhis revenge on kalevala the capture of the sun. A description of tropes appearing in day the earth froze. A bunch of finns or something run around trying to outsmart a witch while our hero just wants to get some. Its original title was sampo, and that title works better even though i have no clue as to what a sampo is, because this is the thing for which the movie revolves around. The retitle the day the earth froze was so that the movie can playoff as a scifi film for local us tv stations and drivein theaters. Five frozen movie apocalypses that blizzard 2015 might look like. Amanda and i own a number of movies that we were first introduced to through mystery science theater 3000. For me probably the most interesting thing about the day the earth froze, is that on this american poster, narratorannouncer extraordinaire marvin miller gets the biggest credits for his meager contribution.
Now, if youll excuse me, i must attend to my forge. Mst3k favorite moments the day the earth froze youtube. Ptushkos films, sadko 1953, ilya muromets 1956, and sampo 1959, saw release in the u. The day the earth froze sampo 1959 rotten tomatoes. The film was released in the us in an edited version as the day the earth froze by american international pictures as a double feature with conquered city. Jan 12, 2020 the retitle the day the earth froze was so that the movie can playoff as a scifi film for local us tv stations and drivein theaters. The limited edition art and antiques was established in 1994 in historic downtown katy, texas and features an eclectic variety of antiques, ephemera and original folk art. Jan 06, 2017 remember joel intoning the word sampo with awe on the mid90s episode the day the earth froze. Aleksandr ptushko, risto orko retromediaimage entertainment. Five frozen movie apocalypses that blizzard 2015 might.
Dec 12, 2006 the day the earth froze is a bright and colorful fantasy that doesnt make a whole lot of sense, but hey, its mythology, so it must have made sense to the people who told it at the time. The day the earth froze aka sampo 1959 shown july, 1993. Based on finnish mythology, this movie traces the exploits of lemminkainen as he woos the fair annikki and battles the evil witch louhi. The film was released in the us in an edited version as the day the earth froze. The day the earth froze 1959 flere oplysninger download gratis. In addition to the day the earth froze originally sampo, two other of his films have been msted. I dug out the day the earth froze, which i assumed mostly on the similarity of its title to the day the earth stood still would be a bad sciencefiction movie. The day the earth froze is a fairly prime example in this is because one of the stronger aspects of the episode is joel and the bots confusion over what a sampo is, even though the movie does tell us theyre just riffing during the explanation.
This is, i argue, a major arc in the tale, and the film suffers greatly without it. Louhi kidnaps annikki to compel her father to build for her a sampo, a magical device that creates salt, grain, and gold. Sunshine didnt spend too much time on its coldravaged earth, but we did get to. On april 22, 1970, more than 20 million americans gathered on college campuses and in city squares to celebrate the first earth day. Its not going to substitute for seeing the originals, but fans of bizarro import mutations of the kind usually available only as graymarket tapes, are going to be. A fantasy film based on the finnish epic poem which details a mystical land complete with a magical mill that produces grain, salt, and gold, a. The day the earth froze 1959 letterboxd social film. With urho somersalmi, anna orochko, ivan voronov, andris oshin. His 1946 film the stone flower won best color film at the film festival in cannes, france. The day the earth froze is a little hard to follow but i suspect that this is more the fault of the sloppy adaption of the script into english and the dubbing.
Nov 09, 2018 day the earth froze original 1sh poster 1963 so the day earth froze doms phoenix 1959 the day earth froze original u s one sheet poster is mystery science theater 3000 collection clic the day earth froze poster style a 11 x 14 1963 mst3k 422 the day earth froze fandompress the day earth froze. The magic voyage of sinbad 1953 the day the earth froze 1959 directors. I decided to tap the mystery science theatre 3000 archives for a suitable film for a lowenergy night. European fairy tales are definitely a special genre unto themselves. The whole freezing thing is but a mere plot point in the film. The day the earth froze was loosely based on the kalevala the songs of kaleva, the national epic poem of finland, which elias lonnrot compiled from a large collection of finnish folktales and folk songs and published in 1835. Based on finnish mythology, this movie traces the exploits of. The day the earth froze 1959 the day the earth froze. Vito adriaensens is a film historian and filmmaker who teaches film at columbia university in new york and is a researcher at the university of antwerp. In fact sampo is the original title of the 1959 film, before it was dubbed and reedited to silly mush, the version that joel and the bots riffed.
Notably, the script adaptor for this version of the film was a young francis ford coppola. Joel and the bots learn the ins and outs of the circus in the short here comes the circus 1946 and then try to make sense of the nordic fairy tale film the day the earth froze 1959. Sculpture and cinema 2017, and is on the executive committee of domitor, the international. Finnish hero lemminkainen woos the fair damsel loveinterests annikki, but an wickedwitch evil witch named louhi kidnaps damselindistress annikki in order to compel her brother ilmarinen the blacksmith to build a publicdomainartifact sampo a magical mill that cranks out riches. I laughed very hard while watching lemminkainen struggle to defeat a cape. Saw this film as a mst3k episode and it was entitled, the day the earth froze. Though all obviously retained their original fantasy fairy tale ambiance, they were promoted by their wily american. The day the earth froze 1959 directed by aleksandr ptushko. Finnish hero lemminkainen woos the fair damsel annikki, but an evil witch named louhi kidnaps. The day the earth froze 1959 loukhy the witch ingrid elhardt steals the sun for spite after a logger jon powers denies her a magic mill. When the earth froze the rocks tell us that at least twice, the earth has frozen over from the poles to the equator. In this opening credits of this version, the direction of the film is credited to alfred posco. The day the earth froze has a man getting his butt kicked by an animate cape, a hilarous bullwinkle impression, and a ridiculous sequence when the heros mother goes from object to inanimate object to ask for news of her missing son.
The day the earth froze sampo northwest film forum. American international pictures released a drastically shortened version of sampo in 1964 retitled the day the earth froze. The other film the day the earth froze has incredible scenes from forests in godknowswhere. The roads lengthy reply inspires crows comment, now i know what they mean when they say the road goes. The extras on the disc are sparse and consist of a blackandwhite trailer for the day the earth froze and a stills gallery. He is the author of the upcoming velvet curtains and gilded frames. Jan 26, 2015 five frozen movie apocalypses that blizzard 2015 might look like. The day the earth froze finlandia foundation national. This was the only finnish film that had a 4track stereo soundtrack. In episode 422 we once again get up close and personal with russian cinema with the day the earth froze aka.
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