Posts Tagged ‘Andrzej Wajda’
Sweet Rush
Tatarak Poland, 2009, colour, 85 mins Director: Andrzej Wajda Screenplay: Andrzej Wajda (and, uncredited, Krystyna Janda), based on the story by Jarosław Iwaskiewicz Photography: Paweł Edelman Production Design: Magdalena Dipont Costume Design: Magdalena Biedrzycka Music: Paweł Mykietyn Sound: Jacek Hamela Editing: Milenia Fiedler Producer: [...]
Sweet Rush
Tatarak Poland, 2009, colour, 85 mins Unlike the long-gestating, big-budget Katyń (2007), Andrzej Wajda's new film was shot relatively quickly with a small cast and on a comparatively low budget, and premiered less than eighteen months after its predecessor at this year's Berlin Film Festival, where it shared the Alfred Bauer prize. But [...]
Polish Paths to Freedom: Sparks of Hope (screening times)
Further to my post last week about the Imperial War Museum's ambitious, very welcome and entirely free series of screenings of Polish films illuminating the country's post-1970s history, they've now confirmed dates and screening times. You can download a PDF document here, but I'm sure they won't mind me reproducing the details for easier [...]
Polish Paths to Freedom: Sparks of Hope
Just over a year ago I posted details about the second instalment of the Imperial War Museum's enterprising Polish Paths to Freedom season - a series of films illustrating aspects of twentieth-century Polish history from various perspectives, fiction and non-fiction, contemporary and historical, you name it.They've just announced the line-up for [...]
What You Got?
23 January sees the launch of the Barbican's What You Got? season, a triple tribute to rebel icons James Dean, Gérard Philipe and Zbigniew Cybulski. As far as Cybulski is concerned, Andrzej Wajda's seminal Ashes and Diamonds (Popioł i diament, 1958) unsurprisingly gets the most prominent slot, being the opening gala on 23rd January at 19:30, [...]
Andrzej Wajda showreel
Courtesy of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, here's a two-and-a-half minute showreel of Andrzej Wajda's films, originally made by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to accompany the presentation of his lifetime achievement Oscar in 2000.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]