Posts Tagged ‘Jerzy Skolimowski’
Era New Horizons: New Polish Films 1
I spent much of the end of July attending the 9th Era New Horizons film festival in Wrocław, Poland, where I was simultaneously covering it for Sight & Sound and sitting on the five-strong jury for the New Polish Films competition. There were thirteen entries (all feature-length Polish fiction films released after 31 July 2008) and two [...]
Skolimowski returns
Of all the important European filmmakers, Jerzy Skolimowski has been one of the most shabbily treated by distributors, with many of his films still nearly impossible to see - but the situation has improved dramatically with the release of a four-disc box set of his four major Polish films - apparently with English subtitles. Hopefully, I'll be [...]
Skolimowski in New York
I was talking to a colleague only yesterday about how scandalously difficult it was to see films by Jerzy Skolimowski - and with immaculate timing the blog J.B.Spins has drawn my attention to a retrospective at New York's Anthology Film Archives, running until this Saturday. I can't go, but if anyone else can take advantage, do - most of these [...]
Innocent Sorcerers
As part of my ongoing research into the extensive back catalogue of Andrzej Wajda, the grand old man of Polish cinema, I watched the Facets/Polart DVD of his 1960 film Innocent Sorcerers (Niewinni czarodzieje) last night. It made for a fascinating contrast with his usual work. It was his fifth feature, but his first set in the (then) present, [...]