The former head of the Polish Film Institute gave me a stunning boxed set of the works of Andrzej Wajda two years ago at the Locarno Film Festival, and I am finally watching them. Most know Wajda is a one of Poland’s preeminent film directors, an Acadmey Award winner, recipeint of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d’Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the “Polish Film School”. He is best known today for The Promised Land (1975), Man of Iron (1981), and Katyn (2007).
What I learned was that he was born March 6, 1926, Suwałki, Poland the ancestral town of my own ancestors on my paternal grandfather’s side.
Wadja’s first film, A Generation, originally entitled Candidate Term, was by the first post-war generation to leave Lodz Film School who worked with Wajda on his first film. One of those graduates,...
What I learned was that he was born March 6, 1926, Suwałki, Poland the ancestral town of my own ancestors on my paternal grandfather’s side.
Wadja’s first film, A Generation, originally entitled Candidate Term, was by the first post-war generation to leave Lodz Film School who worked with Wajda on his first film. One of those graduates,...
- 8/22/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Robert Louis Stevenson’s literary horror classic Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published in 1886, just a decade before the birth of cinema and only two decades prior to its first screen adaptation (William N. Selig’s now lost Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). Since then a lengthy list of cinematic interpretations have come to fruition, from the 1931 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian which earned Fredric March an Oscar for his performance in the starring role, to the 1941 remake that boasted of names like Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner, through a TV movie featuring Mickey Rooney in his very last screen performance. Despite the lengthy list, there is certainly no adaptation quite like Walerian Borowczyk’s hyper sexualized The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne.
By 1981, the year of the film’s release, Borowczyk had (somewhat unwillingly) been pegged as an art house...
By 1981, the year of the film’s release, Borowczyk had (somewhat unwillingly) been pegged as an art house...
- 5/12/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
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