From 10 December 2008 to 5 January 2009, MoMA in New York is mounting what I think is the most extensive Agnieszka Holland retrospective ever attempted – though the title ‘Agnieszka Holland: Europe/America’ arguably doesn’t go far enough, given that her career included stints in communist and capitalist Europe prior to crossing the Atlantic.
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists offers a handy overview of what’s in the season – but for those in the wrong part of the world, a four-film box set of Holland’s early Polish features came out on DVD in Poland a few weeks ago. It includes Screen Tests (Zdjęcia próbne, 1977), Provincial Actors (Aktorzy prowincjonalni, 1979), Fever (Gorączka, 1981) and A Woman Alone (Kobieta samotna, 1981) – and I believe they all have English subtitles.