‘Poland’ Archives
Wajda in New York
Truth or Dare: The Films of Andrzej Wajda is playing in New York's Film Society of Lincoln Center from October 17 to November 13 - and offering a much more extensive programme than the recent BFI Southbank retrospective. In fact, a quick glance down the line-up suggests they're offering almost everything, including some made-for-television [...]
Skolimowski returns
Of all the important European filmmakers, Jerzy Skolimowski has been one of the most shabbily treated by distributors, with many of his films still nearly impossible to see - but the situation has improved dramatically with the release of a four-disc box set of his four major Polish films - apparently with English subtitles. Hopefully, I'll be [...]
Polish Posters revisited
One of the first posts I ever made on this blog enthused about Polish posters (one of the most underrated authentically great art forms of the last century), so I'm delighted to see that Andrew Lindstrom's design resource Well Medicated is hosting a superb online exhibition of fifty Polish film posters, plus the option to leave comments. And I [...]
Kanal For Beginners
Tangentially related to the previous post, Time Out's new Classic Film Club series (currently on part two) sees writer Tom Huddleston review a classic film that he's never seen before - the only selection rule being that it must be considered a masterpiece by some. This week's entry is Andrzej Wajda's Kanal - and here's what he thought.
Andrzej Wajda: An Introduction
This is the complete text of the introduction to Andrzej Wajda that I gave at BFI Southbank (May 6) and the POSK Polish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith (May 24) - this is the slightly revised POSK version. I've added release dates and Polish original titles to reflect Kinoblog's house style, but otherwise this is pretty much as it was [...]
Anthology of Polish Experimental Animation
I'm acutely conscious that amongst the many failings of this blog is the lack of coverage of animation (something that's even more unforgivable when you consider that I have strong personal and professional interests in the subject), but if anything's going to galvanise me into paying it more attention, it's the imminent release of what looks like [...]
Senses of Cinema
The latest edition of online journal Senses of Cinema has several lengthy articles devoted to aspects of central and eastern European cinema, including: Sweet Movie: The Gentle Side of "Destructive Art" by Dušan Makavejev The World Tasted: Dušan Makavejev’s Sweet Movie by Lorraine Mortimer Slovak Cinema of the 1970s Revisited by Peter [...]
Pawlikowski Online and in London
BFI Screenonline has just had its regular monthly update, and while this online encyclopaedia of British film and television history rarely has much of especial relevance to this blog's remit, it does now feature two pieces on Pawel Pawlikowski's early work, written by my friend and Andrzej Wajda co-interviewer Kamila Kuc. They cover From Moscow [...]
Wajda interview online
Although most of the current Sight & Sound is locked between the covers of the print version, the interview with Andrzej Wajda by yours truly and Kamila Kuc has just been published online. Coincidentally, I watched Wajda's Pan Tadeusz (1999) earlier today, which I enjoyed for the most part, even though I was acutely conscious that the [...]
The Saragossa Website
Wojciech Jerzy Has's mind-bending 1960s masterpiece The Saragossa Manuscript (Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie, 1965) now has its own dedicated website, courtesy of UK distributors Mr Bongo Films, and a quick glance suggests that there's a fair bit more content there than is the case with many similar promotional sites. I've only seen a [...]