Tag: Polish cinema

A Short Film About Killing opened in Poland in March 1988. Two months later, it played in competition in Cannes, where it won the Jury…

Blue may be the most popular of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Trois Couleurs trilogy, made during the renowned Polish filmmaker’s final years in France. But the following…

The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 85 days to…

As a young screenwriter, impressionable and ambitious, I was capable of soaking up inspiration like a sponge. Beyond the passion for writing and watching and…

A certain intimacy must be displayed in any given romantic movie. Everything from Before Sunset to Punch-Drunk Love to Casablanca has a closeness that ties…

Krzysztof Kieślowski would return to television a decade after Personnel (1975) with a seminal, stunning Dekalog, the Polish series of 10 one-hour episodes, Binge it, I…

Wednesday 13th March 2019 will mark 23 years since the passing of one of cinema’s greatest film-makers – and one who deserved that tag without…

Pawel Pawlikowski’s latest film Cold War, is the tale of two lovers and their troubled relationship, which spans across a decade and across several countries….

“You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn’t matter if you transport them to a world of intuition…

“Abdellatif Kechiche is one of the greatest, most famous directors in France, and I love the trance-like feeling that you get with his cinema. I…

Long time no see Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, my once regular links recommendations of the movie world (and those that crash the party). This time around…