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The Finnish filmmaker Ilkka J\xe4rvi-Laturi, subject of an ongoing retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, made only three features in his life, each of which is maverick in its own right. His 1989 debut, Homebound, is a gritty realist film about a young man struggling to escape a cycle of violence; City Unplugged sets a heist in the wake of Estonia\u2019s independence in the 1990s. And History Is Made at Night, the strangest of the bunch, is an international, star-studded spy-thriller-slash-screwball-comedy set between New York City and Helsinki.\n\nThe films together represent a unique creative vision\u2014one that combines genre ambitions with a defiantly indie sensibility and unexpected sense of humor. To learn more about J\xe4rvi-Laturi\u2019s career, Film Comment editors Clinton Krute and Devika Girish invited Steve Macfarlane, one of the curators of the MoMA retrospective, and Hannu Bj\xf6rkbacka, a Finnish critic, to the join Podcast. And if you live in New York, don\u2019t miss the screenings this week at MoMA.