...This book explores artistic choices in cinema exhibition, focusing on film theatres, film festivals and film archives and situating film-curating issues within an international context. It describes how artistic and commercial film availability has increased overwhelmingly as a result...

... by Mette Hjort, which emphasises the way film production is enhanced and broadened through institutional innovation and creative leadership. Kaurismäki has used the film festivals to advance Finnish cinema as a small-nation cinema, not only through the construction of his own reputation at the film...

...This concluding chapter ties together the loose threads of the discussions in the preceding chapters. It identifies several key trends that have had a huge impact on the Asian cinematic industry, including the rising popularity of Japanese and Korean films at international film festivals...