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LFF 2015 #3: Something Better to Come (Denmark-Poland 2015)
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...
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LFF 2015 #6: 11 Minutes (Poland-Ireland 2015)
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...
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¡Viva! 21 #2: Os fenómenos (Aces, Spain 2014)
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)...
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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:...
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The Promised Land (Ziemia obiecana, Poland 1975)
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...
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LFF 2015 #3: Something Better to Come (Denmark-Poland 2015)
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LFF 2015 #6: 11 Minutes (Poland-Ireland 2015)
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...
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¡Viva! 21 #2: Os fenómenos (Aces, Spain 2014)
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)...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New posts on Global Film
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:...
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The Promised Land (Ziemia obiecana, Poland 1975)
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LFF 2015 #3: Something Better to Come (Denmark-Poland 2015)
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LFF 2015 #6: 11 Minutes (Poland-Ireland 2015)
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...
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European Film School: Łódź
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...
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The Here After (Efterskalv Sweden-Poland 2015)
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...
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Planeta Singli (Poland 2016)
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...
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Les innocentes (France-Poland 2015)
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...
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Andrzej Wajda 1926 to 2016
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...
View ArticleLFF2017 #2: Birds Are Singing in Kigali (Ptaki spiewaja w Kigali, Poland 2017)
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...
View ArticleCold War (Zimna wojna, Poland-France-UK 2018)
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....
View ArticleMother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniolów, Poland 1961)
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...
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