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LFF 2015 #3: Something Better to Come (Denmark-Poland 2015)

October 18, 2015, 3:35 pm
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I approached this screening with some trepidation. I’d chosen it because it fitted my schedule. I’m always slightly wary of documentaries and I’m not sure why. I rarely choose to see documentaries at my local cinemas but when I do get to see them I nearly always find them rewarding. This one certainly sounded grim […]
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LFF 2015 #6: 11 Minutes (Poland-Ireland 2015)

October 20, 2015, 3:57 am
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There are NO SPOILERS here! A word of advice – don’t read any reviews of this film that don’t give you this assurance. Jerzy Skolimowski is the Polish director who was a rebel filmmaker in the early 1960s, a young man who went to Lodz film school and tussled with Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Munk and Roman […]
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¡Viva! 21 #2: Os fenómenos (Aces, Spain 2014)

March 7, 2015, 5:05 pm
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Widely seen as a Galician version of a Ken Loach film, Os fenómenos is engaging and intriguing with its ‘open’ ending. It isn’t the first Galician nod to Ken, that would be Mondays in the Sun (2002) with Javier Bardem as an unemployed shipbuilder, but with its ensemble cast of workers in the construction sector complete […]
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New posts on Global Film

May 12, 2015, 1:52 pm
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Just a reminder for subscribers. Reviews of interesting films, mainly from outside the US/UK and Western Europe, are also to be found on our sister site at globalfilmstudies.com Recent posts include: Jauja (Argentina-Denmark 2014) Stones for the Rampart (Poland 2014) The Salvation (Denmark/UK/South Africa 2014) OK Kanmani (India 2015, Tamil)Filed under: Argentinian Cinema, Danish Cinema, […]
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The Promised Land (Ziemia obiecana, Poland 1975)

July 24, 2015, 2:55 am
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This Andrzej Wajda film is an adaptation of a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author Władysław Stanisław Reymont (1867 – 1925). The original Polish cinema release was nearly three hours long with a four hour version for television. This was restored in Poland in 2011 and was shown at the Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds as […]
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LFF 2015 #3: Something Better to Come (Denmark-Poland 2015)

October 18, 2015, 3:35 pm
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I approached this screening with some trepidation. I’d chosen it because it fitted my schedule. I’m always slightly wary of documentaries and I’m not sure why. I rarely choose to see documentaries at my local cinemas but when I do get to see them I nearly always find them rewarding. This one certainly sounded grim […]
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LFF 2015 #6: 11 Minutes (Poland-Ireland 2015)

October 20, 2015, 3:57 am
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There are NO SPOILERS here! A word of advice – don’t read any reviews of this film that don’t give you this assurance. Jerzy Skolimowski is the Polish director who was a rebel filmmaker in the early 1960s, a young man who went to Lodz film school and tussled with Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Munk and Roman […]
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¡Viva! 21 #2: Os fenómenos (Aces, Spain 2014)

March 7, 2015, 5:05 pm
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Widely seen as a Galician version of a Ken Loach film, Os fenómenos is engaging and intriguing with its ‘open’ ending. It isn’t the first Galician nod to Ken, that would be Mondays in the Sun (2002) with Javier Bardem as an unemployed shipbuilder, but with its ensemble cast of workers in the construction sector complete […]
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New posts on Global Film

May 12, 2015, 1:52 pm
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Just a reminder for subscribers. Reviews of interesting films, mainly from outside the US/UK and Western Europe, are also to be found on our sister site at globalfilmstudies.com Recent posts include: Jauja (Argentina-Denmark 2014) Stones for the Rampart (Poland 2014) The Salvation (Denmark/UK/South Africa 2014) OK Kanmani (India 2015, Tamil)Filed under: Argentinian Cinema, Danish Cinema, […]
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The Promised Land (Ziemia obiecana, Poland 1975)

July 24, 2015, 2:55 am
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This Andrzej Wajda film is an adaptation of a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author Władysław Stanisław Reymont (1867 – 1925). The original Polish cinema release was nearly three hours long with a four hour version for television. This was restored in Poland in 2011 and was shown at the Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds as […]
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LFF 2015 #3: Something Better to Come (Denmark-Poland 2015)

October 18, 2015, 3:35 pm
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I approached this screening with some trepidation. I’d chosen it because it fitted my schedule. I’m always slightly wary of documentaries and I’m not sure why. I rarely choose to see documentaries at my local cinemas but when I do get to see them I nearly always find them rewarding. This one certainly sounded grim […]
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LFF 2015 #6: 11 Minutes (Poland-Ireland 2015)

October 20, 2015, 3:57 am
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There are NO SPOILERS here! A word of advice – don’t read any reviews of this film that don’t give you this assurance. Jerzy Skolimowski is the Polish director who was a rebel filmmaker in the early 1960s, a young man who went to Lodz film school and tussled with Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Munk and Roman […]
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European Film School: Łódź

November 20, 2015, 5:27 am
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This offered two programmes in the Leeds International Film Festival Short Film City section. The Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna im. Leona Schillera w Łodzi) is the leading Polish academy for future actors, directors, photographers, camera operators and TV staff. [The […]
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The Here After (Efterskalv Sweden-Poland 2015)

March 27, 2016, 4:30 pm
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The Here After is a début feature from Magnus von Horn, a Swede who attended the famous Łódź film school in Poland where he teamed up with a Polish student, Mariusz Wlodarski. After several prize-winning short films and a documentary, The Here After produced by Wlodarski with a partly Polish crew was an official co-production, shot in […]
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Planeta Singli (Poland 2016)

June 8, 2016, 9:16 am
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Planeta Singli is the latest Polish blockbuster to hit the UK in an attempt to find the large Polish diaspora audience. Polish is officially the UK’s leading second language (i.e. the first language of a million or more Poles resident in the UK). We’ve had Polish films on release in the UK over the last […]
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Les innocentes (France-Poland 2015)

December 4, 2016, 1:40 pm
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Les innocentes (previously titled ‘Agnus Dei’) proved to be a rather different film than I expected. I didn’t really have any expectations other than having enjoyed director Anne Fontaine’s earlier films such as Gemma Bovery (France 2014) and Coco avant Chanel (France 2009) and I wasn’t expecting such a powerful and deeply moving film. I found it […]
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Andrzej Wajda 1926 to 2016

December 26, 2016, 3:52 am
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World Cinema lost one of it luminaries in October this year when the iconic career of this filmmaker came to an end. Wajda was one of the celebrated graduates of the Łódź Film School. This training ground for film actors as well as crafts people had a deservedly outstanding reputation. Wajda first drew attention with […]
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LFF2017 #2: Birds Are Singing in Kigali (Ptaki spiewaja w Kigali, Poland 2017)

October 11, 2017, 1:54 am
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This was a very difficult film to watch for a variety of reasons. The film was introduced by its co-director Joanna Kos-Krauze who revealed that the film took several years to put together and that both her cinematographer Krzysztof Ptak and her husband and co-director Krzysztof Krauze had died before the film was completed. Since the film’s […]
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Cold War (Zimna wojna, Poland-France-UK 2018)

September 27, 2018, 12:41 am
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My response to Pawlikowski’s films has been mixed, I positively disliked The Woman in the Fifth (FrancePoland-UK, 2011) but can’t remember why. However both Ida and Cold War are undoubtedly excellent. Stylistically the new film is more self-consciously ‘arty’ than Ida and both feature beautiful cinematography by Lukasz Zal. Cold War‘s also narratively elliptical with the audience left to fill […]
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Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniolów, Poland 1961)

October 20, 2018, 4:39 am
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Mother Joan of the Angels is a sort of sequel to The Devils (UK, 1971), Ken Russells’ hysterical and extravagant adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s The Devils of Loudon (1952) which was based on actual events that occurred in the 1630s. ‘Sequel’ because it deals with the aftermath of Grandier’s (Oliver Reed) death although it is based on Jarosław […]
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