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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 [...]

Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema

Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema

Ucieczka z kina 'Wolność' Poland, 1990, colour, 87 minsPremiered on 15 October 1990, just over a year after the election of Poland's first non-communist government in over four decades, Wojciech Marczewski's Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema offers a bizarre but rather engaging combination of anti-communist satire and film-versus-reality [...]