La Vie de Bohème (Aki Kaurismäki, 1992)

La Vie de Bohème (Aki Kaurismäki, 1992)

Cast: Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen, Christine Murillo, Jean-Pierre Léaud. Screenplay: Aki Kaurismäki, based on a novel by Henri Murger. Cinematography: Timo Salminen. Production design: John Ebden. Film editing: Veikko Aaltonen.

Topper Takes a Trip (Norman Z. McLeod, 1938)

Topper Takes a Trip (Norman Z. McLeod, 1938)

Cast: Roland Young, Constance Bennett, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Verree Teasdale, Franklin Pangborn, Alexander D'Arcy. Screenplay: Jack Jevne, Eddie Moran, Corey Ford, based on a novel by Thorne Smith. Cinematography: Norbert Brodine. Art direction: Charles D. Hall. Film editing: William H. Terhune. Music: Hugo Friedhofer, Edward B. Powell.

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Karel Zeman, 1962)

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Karel Zeman, 1962)

Not as reined-in as his wonderful 1958 tribute to Jules Verne, Invention for Destruction, Karel Zeman's The Fabulous Baron Munchausen often has an anything-goes quality to its fantasy, which makes it a little too easy to detach yourself from its ongoing barrage of astonishing images. A revival of the film in the 1980s directly influenced Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), which suffers from a similar lack of groundedness.

Cast: Milos Kopecký, Rudolf Jelinek, Jana Brejchová, Karel Höger, Eduard Kohout, Jan Werich, Bohus Záhorský, Rudlof Hrusínský. Screenplay: Jirí Brdecka, Josef Kainar, Karel Zeman, based on a book by Gottfried August Bürger and stories by Rudolph Erich Raspe. Cinematography: Jirí Tarantik. Production design: Karel Zeman. Film editing: Vera Kutilova. Music: Zdenek Liska.

Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch, 1933)

Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch, 1933)

Cast: Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, Franklin Pangborn, Isabel Jewell, Jane Darwell, Wyndham Standing. Screenplay: Ben Hecht, based on a play by Noël Coward. Cinematography: Victor Milner. Art direction: Hans Dreier. Film editing: Frances Marsh. Music: John Leipold.

Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Aki Kaurismäki, 1989)

Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Aki Kaurismäki, 1989)

Cast: Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, Nicky Tesco, Sakke Järvenpää, Heiki Keskinen, Pimme Korhonen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Puka Oinonen, Silu Seppälä, Mauri Sumén, Mato Valtonen, Pekka Virtanen, Jim Jarmusch. Screenplay: Sakke Järvenpää, Aki Kaurismäki, Mato Valtonen. Cinematography: Timo Salminen. Art direction: Kari Laine, Haikki Ukkonen. Film editing: Raija Talvio. Music: Mauri Sumén.