Posts Tagged ‘Agnieszka Holland’
Agnieszka Holland DVD Box
I meant to review the four titles in Telewizja Kinopolska's DVD box set of Agnieszka Holland's first four films (one's a collaborative exercise) in more detail, but it's so long since I watched them that I'm in danger of forgetting salient bits. So here's a quick précis: Screen Tests (Zdjęcia próbne, 1977): a three-part portmanteau film [...]
Agnieszka Holland: Europe/America
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 [...]
Censorship as a Creative Force: Screentalk
Last night I attended the keenly-awaited Censorship as a Creative Force Screentalk discussion at London's Barbican Arts Centre, in which Jiří Menzel, István Szabó and Agnieszka Holland (an eleventh-hour replacement for Andrzej Wajda) discussed their experience of censorship under the various totalitarian régimes under which they had to spend [...]