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Polish Documentaries: From Powiśle (1958)

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2008-10-04 22:50:00 by Michael Brooke in Kinoblog
Z Powiśla 1958, black and white, 10 mins Director/Script: Kazimierz Karabasz Camera: Stanisław Niedbalski Editor: Helena Białkowska Sound: Halina Paszkowska Music: Zbigniew Jeżewski Narrator: Tadeusz Łomnicki Production Manager: Jerzy Dorożyński Production Company: WFD After making short films at the Łódź Film School (among them Day In...
 
Tags: kazimierz karabasz, karabasz, short films, films, karabasz subsequent films, warsaw, powile, karabasz attempts, run-down warsaw suburb
 
 
 
 
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Hungarians in Hollywood

2008-10-04 09:28:53 by Michael Brooke in Kinoblog
 
The 8th Los Angeles Hungarian Film Festival is to be held between 15 and 23 October. It has four sections, and Ive linked to Kinoblog reviews where they exist New Hungarian Films : 9 and 1/2 Date, Adventurers, Bahrtalo - Good Luck , Delta , Dolina, Eszters Inheritance, The Eighth Day of the Week , Girls , Iskas Journey , Nosedive, Opium - Diary...
 
Tags: hungarians, red, screenonline piece magyars, red psalm, director michael curtiz, cinematographer vilmos zsigmond, composer mikls rosza, laszlo kovacs, kinoblog reviews
 
 
 
 
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Retro-futurism

2008-10-01 10:00:11 by Michael Brooke in Kinoblog
 
On his magnificently-titled blog Sit Down Man, Youre a Bloody Tragedy , Owen Hatherley has published an incisive analysis of Dom (1958), the collaboration by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica thats now regarded not just as their own breakthrough but the film that kick-started serious Polish animated cinema in general - though, as Hatherley...
 
Tags: polish, jan lenica, hatherley, polish animation, lenica, film, walerian borowczyk, hatherley argues, borowczyk
 
 
 
 
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Polish Documentaries: Place of Residence (1957)

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2008-09-30 23:06:13 by Michael Brooke in Kinoblog
Miejsce zamieszkania 1957, black and white, 16 mins Director: Maksymilian Wrocławski Script: Z. Wróbiewski, Maksymilian Wrocławski Camera: Tadeusz Korecki Editor: Jadwiga Zajiček Sound: Halina Paszkowska Music: Augustyn Bloch Narrator: Tadeusz Łomnicki Production Manager: Zygmunt Rybarski Production Company: WFD Of all the black series...
 
Tags: black series, black, fellow workers, workers, workers accommodation, black series documentaries, nearby tannoy, tannoy, 1950s
 
 
 
 
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Polish Documentaries: City on Islands (1958)

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2008-09-30 19:00:09 by Michael Brooke in Kinoblog
Miasto na wyspach 1958, black and white, 9 mins Directors: Jan Dmowski, Bohdan Kosiński Camera: Antoni Staśkiewicz Editor: Marian Duszyński Sound: Halina Paszkowska Music: Zdzisław Szostak Narrator: Janusz Kilański Production Manager: Andrzej Liwnicz Production Company: WFD The rebuilding of the Polish capital is one of the most frequent...
 
Tags: city, city centre, centre, warsaw, commentary, commentary quotes, streets, wide asphalt streets, oblique social commentary
 
 
 
 
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Polish Documentaries: Article Zero (1957)

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2008-09-30 12:00:33 by Michael Brooke in Kinoblog
Paragraf zero 1957, black and white, 16 mins Director: Włodzimierz Borowik Camera: Antoni Staśkiewicz Editor: Maria Orlowska Sound: Bohdan Kajan Music Editor: Stefan Zawarski Text: Jerzy Bossak (as Jerzy Szelubski Narrator: Tadeusz Łomnicki Production Manager: Andrzej Liwnicz Production Company: WFD It says something for the social stigma...
 
Tags: films title refers, films, narrator, narrator admonishes, camera films, narrator wonders, films rare moments, narrator tempers, black
 
 
 
 
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Back to Sarajevo

2008-09-30 09:31:11 by Michael Brooke in Kinoblog
 
When I get a spare moment, Im going to finish writing up my Sarajevo Film Festival reviews (I havent even mentioned the documentaries yet, of which I saw a great many), but in the meantime heres Dominic Ambroses blog - he also attended the festival and wrote capsule pieces on many of the films, including a few that I didnt see
 
Tags: dominic ambroses blog, capsule pieces, spare moment, documentaries, festival, meantime, finish, films
 
 
 
 
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Green Hair, German Sausage and Headless Chickens

2008-09-28 18:55:04 by Michael Brooke in Kinoblog
 
Todays Mail on Sunday has an extract from Maureen Lipmans forthcoming book Past-It Notes in which she describes working with Roman Polanski on The Pianist (2003) and encountering his somewhat unorthodox methods - which, amongst other things, involved her hair turning green and her distinguished co-star Frank Finlay being smeared with sausage....
 
Tags: co-star frank finlay, book past-it notes, mia farrow, catherine deneuve, sausage, roman polanski, todays mail, unorthodox methods, hair
 
 
 
 
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The Ghost of Munich

2008-09-28 08:40:09 by Michael Brooke in Kinoblog
 
The Prague Post reports on a potentially intriguing film collaboration between two of the elder statesmen of Czech culture: playwright and former president Václav Havel and director Miloš Forman. Inspired by (as opposed to based on) the novel The Ghost of Munich by French journalist Georges-Marc Benamou, its an account of the British and...
 
Tags: communist czechoslovakia, major czech director, czechoslovakia, havelforman project, terrific dvd extra, bitterly ironic comment, project, president vclav havel, prague post reports
 
 
 
 
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Snow Q&A

2008-09-27 13:00:08 by Michael Brooke in Kinoblog
 
One of the better films I saw at this years Sarajevo Film Festival was Aida Begićs feature debut Snow ( Snijeg ) - but though I attended the press Q&A the next day, it was all in untranslated Bosnian (or at least the first ten minutes was: Id made my excuses and left by then So I was delighted to find Michael Guillens English-language Q&A with...
 
Tags: films, films mysteries, sarajevo film festival, magical realist elements, definite narrative function, class blog, michael guillens, boys miraculously, time