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The disturbing and revealing 2021 Polish thriller film Operation Hyacinth [Hiacynt] stars Tomasz Ziętek as an earnest young policeman assigned a case of a serial murderer targeting homosexuals in Warsaw. Director Piotr Domalewski’s disturbing and […]
‘Their Love was all these things – It Was Daring! It Was Defiant! It Was Irrepressible! It Was Rapturous!’ Director Vincent Sherman’s 1944 Warner Bros black and white film In Our Time is a conscientious […]
Writer-director Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1982 British drama Moonlighting is a fascinating allegorical piece about deceit and theft, with a sterling performance by Jeremy Irons as contractor Nowak, the leader of a small band of Polish workers […]
Three Colors: White [Trois Couleurs: Blanc] (1994), the second part of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s trilogy (after the 1993 Three Colours: Blue) is billed as ‘A Comedy’, but there is no impression anywhere in the movie of […]
Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941–1996) expanded the 61-minute sixth part of his Ten Commandments TV series into an 87-minute cinema feature as A Short Film About Love [Krótki film o milosci]. It is the most romantic […]
The 36-year-old Polish writer-director Tomasz Wasilewski (Floating Skyscrapers) delivers a devastating punch to the gut in this amazingly accomplished and desperately disturbing drama set in Poland in 1990, the first year of the country’s freedom. […]
Put the 1945 film A Song to Remember on your Chopin Liszt! Cornel Wilde as Frédéric Chopin earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor – his only ever Oscar nomination. Stephen Bekassy co-stars as […]