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Taiwan Matters! (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Good movie for a Double Ten date? Jerome Keating described Polish director Andrzej Wajda's 2007 film " Katyn " 《愛在波蘭戰火時》 as recalling Taiwan's tragedy -- a reference to the 228 Massacre of 1947. In a recent post , I recommended trying to catch it. Finally, Taichung moviegoers can, too. Jerome sent me this clipping from one of yesterday's papers: Movie information (Click to enlarge) There was a "sneak...
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Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
2008 Chicago International Film Festival By Marilyn Ferdinand It's hard to believe another year has come and gone and that I'm back in training for another Chicago International Film Festival. It's a time that I relish even as I agonize...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Film News: Festival for European films widens scope -- “Gomorra,” Matteo Garrone’s Cannes Grand Prix winner, will open the 5th Seville European Film Festival.
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Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
You can read many books on famous Poles but there are also couple of films that portray important persons from Poland. Although they usually do not cover their all life – they might be a good start in getting to know more.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
"Are we all possessed by dybbuks in our ordinary life?" asks Krzysztof Warlikowski, whose production of Dybbuk with the Polish TR Warszawa company opened the theatre strand of Edinburgh's International Festival. He's pretty obsessed with the subject, having painstakingly adapted Szymon Anski's play The Dybbuk into a version that combines it with a short story by Hanna Krall.
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
President Toomas Hendrik Ilves of Estonia is one among the foreign participants in the commemoration of the Warsaw Rising joining Polish president Lech Kaczynski at the main event at the capital’s Powazki Cemetery. The two presidents will also have talks on current political issues. While in Warsaw, President Ilves will decorate Polish film director Andrzej Wajda with the Terra Mariana Order, one of...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Metro Film Society is screening Andrzej Wajda’s Katyn at EMS Town Hall on Saturday, at 8 pm. This movie was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film. The film is based on the real incident when 22,000 Polish officers and ...
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
A quartet of movies continues to reflect the impressive emergence of Polish filmmakers in the late 1950s. Three of these, collected in a handsome and indispensable DVD set from the Criterion Collection, were the first pictures directed by Andrzej Wajda, the most productive and prestigious figure in Polish cinema for two generations.
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DVD Times (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
DVD Video Review: A Generation, Kanal and Ashes and Diamonds - three groundbreaking films directed by Andrzej Wajda released in a box set by Arrow. Review by Gary Couzens.
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Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
The Northern Ireland premiere of an Oscar-nominated film about the massacre of thousands of Polish soldiers during World War 2 and a workshop run by one of Poland's most respected writers are just some of the events being staged in Belfast next week as part of Polish Cultural Week.
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GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
The one piece online from Sight & Sound's "Cinema of the New Europe" cover package is Michael Brooke and Kamila Kuc's interview with Andrzej Wajda. From their intro: "Katyn is the first Polish film to tackle two of the...
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CDR Salamander (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Ewok40k brought up Katyn the other day in comments. It reminded me that a top shelf movie came out in Poland last year by the excellent Andrzej Wajda that at last is out in DVD . All I can find is Zone 2 DVD (Europe) - and would really like one in Zone 1 (USA and Canada). Harumph. This should be seen by all. One way or another, I see this next to Stalingrad and Das Boot in the Salamander collection....
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
‘Adayalangal’ by M.G. Sasi, winner of the Kerala State Award for Best Film (2007), will kick start the FILCA film festival this evening at Kalabhavan. Adoor Gopalakrishnan will inaugurate the Festival. The Festival will screen ...
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BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
'The bloodshed had to be shown' : At 80, Andrzej Wajda has made the bravest film of his career: a graphic account of the killing of 8,000 Polish officers. He tells Geoffrey Macnab why the story meant so much to him (Geoffrey Macnab, May 2, 2008, Guardian) Whatever else it is, Katyn is bravura film-making. Wajda is in his 80s, but he hasn't lost his knack for marshalling crowds, choreographing elaborate...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Arts & entertainment: At 80, Andrzej Wajda has made the bravest film of his career: a graphic account of the killing of 8,000 Polish officers. He talks to Geoffrey Macnab
