Posts Tagged ‘Jerzy Kawalerowicz’
Night Train
Pociąg Poland, 1959, black and white, 93 minsBy the time Jerzy Kawalerowicz made his sixth feature in 1959, overnight trains had long been established as an ideal setting for scenarios of intrigue and suspense: Alfred Hitchcock in particular had very much made the genre his own. But although a fair amount of Night Train (also known as Baltic [...]
Kinoteka
London's sixth annual Polish Film Festiwal (sic) has just launched its website.Given London's already large and growing Polish population, the festival has grown to match, and now has several distinct sidebars including:New Polish Cinema - several new features and shorts, including Stanislaw Mucha's Hope (Nadzieja), which I recently reviewed for [...]
Jerzy Kawalerowicz RIP
Polish director Jerzy Kawalerowicz, best known in Britain for Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od aniołów, 1961) and the Oscar-nominated The Pharaoh (Faraon, 1965), died yesterday at the age of 85. Daily Telegraph obituary Filmreference.com on Kawalerowicz (by Václav Merhaut) Culture.pl on Kawalerowicz (in Polish only) IMDB and [...]