Between 9 January and 6 February, the Riverside Studios Cinema in Hammersmith (which has been London’s strongest champion of Central and East European cinema for a good few years now) is holding a five-part ‘Polish Beauties’ season, comprising programmes starring renowned Polish stars from Pola Negri (1897-1987) to Alicja Bachleda-Curuś (b. 1983).
Wednesday 9 January – Pola Negri
6.30pm – The Beast (Bestia, d. Aleksander Hertz, 1917, Poland)
7.35pm – Sumurun (d. Ernst Lubitsch, 1920, Germany)
Introduced by Professor Erica Carter (University of Warwick) and with live jazz piano accompaniment by Mateusz Kolakowski (for The Beast).
Wednesday 16 January – Beata Tyszkiewicz
6.50pm – The Doll (Lalka, d. Wojciech J. Has, 1969, Poland)
Introduced by Beata Tyszkiewicz and followed by a Q&A chaired by Peter Hames.
Wednesday 23 January – Grażyna Szapołowska
6.30pm – Another Way (Egymásra nézve, d. Károly Makk, 1982, Hungary)
8.35pm – A Short Film About Love (Krótki film o miłości, d. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1988, Poland)
Introduced by Grażyna Szapołowska and followed by a Q&A chaired by David Thompson.
Wednesday 30 January – Magdalena Cielecka
6.30pm – Temptation (Pokuszenie, d. Barbara Sass, 1995, Poland)
8.30pm – The Third (Trzeci, d. Jan Hryniak, 2003, Poland)
Introduced by Magdalena Cielecka and followed by a Q&A chaired by Philip Kemp.
Wednesday 6 February – Alicja Bachleda-Curuś
6.15pm – The Gateway of Europe (Wrota Europy, d. Jerzy Wojcik, 1999, Poland)
7.50pm – Trade (d. Marco Kreuzpaintner, 2007, Germany/US)
Introduced by Alicja Bachleda-Curuś and followed by a Q&A chaired by Jörg Tittel.
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