Movie Talk (New Films, Old Films... doesn't matter) (271 Viewers)
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I just finished Blind Chance (Przypadek).
As a massive fan of Kieslowski, seeing the thematic seeds of his later genius (Three Colours trilogy) was a revelation. This felt like the raw, political ancestor to his later French masterpieces.
It's also a minor miracle we can watch it today. Completed in 1981, it was suppressed by Polish censors for six years.
Next up is Camera Buff (Amator).
As a massive fan of Kieslowski, seeing the thematic seeds of his later genius (Three Colours trilogy) was a revelation. This felt like the raw, political ancestor to his later French masterpieces.
It's also a minor miracle we can watch it today. Completed in 1981, it was suppressed by Polish censors for six years.
Next up is Camera Buff (Amator).
I've just received my copy of the Cinema of Conflict: Four Films by Krzysztof Kieślowski. This is an Arrow Academy Blu-ray collection featuring four feature films (1976–1984) that showcase Kieślowski's transition from documentary to fiction under Communist censorship. The set includes The Scar (1976), Camera Buff (1979), Blind Chance (1981), and No End (1984).
CINEMA OF CONFLICT
FOUR FILMS BY KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI
Few names are as synonymous with Polish cinema as that of Krzysztof Kieślowski, the renowned auteur responsible for the Dekalog and the Three Colours trilogy. Prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall and his subsequent creative and critical success in France, Kieślowski plied his trade within the confines of the Eastern Bloc, capturing the realities of everyday life under Soviet rule. This collection gathers his four earliest narrative feature films, encapsulating the years 1976–1984.
In 1976's The Scar, a well-intentioned Party loyalist is charged with overseeing the construction of a new chemical plant in the face of fierce resistance and is forced to confront the conflict between his good intentions and local opposition. In 1979's Camera Buff, a family man and amateur filmmaker experiences a dramatic change in fortunes when his newfound hobby opens up new horizons but also results in deep marital and philosophical conflicts. Blind Chance, completed in 1981 and denied a release in its native Poland until 1987, presents three possible outcomes to a single, seemingly banal event — a young medical student running to catch a train — and, in the process, explores the relationship between chance and choice. Finally, in 1984's No End, a recently bereaved translator juggles the conflicting demands of her work, caring for her son and her continued visions of her late husband, all against the backdrop of a Poland under the grip of martial law.
As socially conscious as Kieślowski’s earlier documentary shorts, this quartet of films covers a tumultuous period in Polish and Eastern European history, shot with unflinching realism by a filmmaker of distinction.
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentations of all four films * Original lossless mono audio for all films * Optional English subtitles for all films * Audio commentary on Camera Buff by Annette Insdorf, author of Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieślowski * Audio commentary on Blind Chance by film historian Michael Brooke * Ghost of a Chance, a visual essay on No End by Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López
Moral and Martial Anxieties, a discussion with Michael Brooke, exploring the brief and remarkable Polish film renaissance of the turn of the 1980s
Introductions by scholar and critic Michał Oleszczyk to all films * Michał Oleszczyk looks through archive materials for each film * Archival interviews with filmmakers Agnieszka Holland and Krzysztof Zanussi, cinematographers Sławomir Idziak and Jacek Petrycki, actress Grażyna Szapołowska, sound designer Michał Żarnecki, critic Annette Insdorf and Kieślowski collaborator Irena Strzałkowska * Three short films by Kieślowski: The Office (1966), Concert of Requests (1967) and Talking Heads (1980) * Workshop Exercises, a 1987 short film by Marcel Łoziński, Kieślowski's colleague at the Warsaw Documentary Film Studio
Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Corey Brickley
FOUR FILMS BY KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI
Few names are as synonymous with Polish cinema as that of Krzysztof Kieślowski, the renowned auteur responsible for the Dekalog and the Three Colours trilogy. Prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall and his subsequent creative and critical success in France, Kieślowski plied his trade within the confines of the Eastern Bloc, capturing the realities of everyday life under Soviet rule. This collection gathers his four earliest narrative feature films, encapsulating the years 1976–1984.
In 1976's The Scar, a well-intentioned Party loyalist is charged with overseeing the construction of a new chemical plant in the face of fierce resistance and is forced to confront the conflict between his good intentions and local opposition. In 1979's Camera Buff, a family man and amateur filmmaker experiences a dramatic change in fortunes when his newfound hobby opens up new horizons but also results in deep marital and philosophical conflicts. Blind Chance, completed in 1981 and denied a release in its native Poland until 1987, presents three possible outcomes to a single, seemingly banal event — a young medical student running to catch a train — and, in the process, explores the relationship between chance and choice. Finally, in 1984's No End, a recently bereaved translator juggles the conflicting demands of her work, caring for her son and her continued visions of her late husband, all against the backdrop of a Poland under the grip of martial law.
As socially conscious as Kieślowski’s earlier documentary shorts, this quartet of films covers a tumultuous period in Polish and Eastern European history, shot with unflinching realism by a filmmaker of distinction.
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentations of all four films * Original lossless mono audio for all films * Optional English subtitles for all films * Audio commentary on Camera Buff by Annette Insdorf, author of Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieślowski * Audio commentary on Blind Chance by film historian Michael Brooke * Ghost of a Chance, a visual essay on No End by Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López
Moral and Martial Anxieties, a discussion with Michael Brooke, exploring the brief and remarkable Polish film renaissance of the turn of the 1980s
Introductions by scholar and critic Michał Oleszczyk to all films * Michał Oleszczyk looks through archive materials for each film * Archival interviews with filmmakers Agnieszka Holland and Krzysztof Zanussi, cinematographers Sławomir Idziak and Jacek Petrycki, actress Grażyna Szapołowska, sound designer Michał Żarnecki, critic Annette Insdorf and Kieślowski collaborator Irena Strzałkowska * Three short films by Kieślowski: The Office (1966), Concert of Requests (1967) and Talking Heads (1980) * Workshop Exercises, a 1987 short film by Marcel Łoziński, Kieślowski's colleague at the Warsaw Documentary Film Studio
Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Corey Brickley
I've just received my copy of the Cinema of Conflict: Four Films by Krzysztof Kieślowski. This is an Arrow Academy Blu-ray collection featuring four feature films (1976–1984) that showcase Kieślowski's transition from documentary to fiction under Communist censorship. The set includes The Scar (1976), Camera Buff (1979), Blind Chance (1981), and No End (1984).
CINEMA OF CONFLICT
FOUR FILMS BY KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI
Few names are as synonymous with Polish cinema as that of Krzysztof Kieślowski, the renowned auteur responsible for the Dekalog and the Three Colours trilogy. Prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall and his subsequent creative and critical success in France, Kieślowski plied his trade within the confines of the Eastern Bloc, capturing the realities of everyday life under Soviet rule. This collection gathers his four earliest narrative feature films, encapsulating the years 1976–1984.
In 1976's The Scar, a well-intentioned Party loyalist is charged with overseeing the construction of a new chemical plant in the face of fierce resistance and is forced to confront the conflict between his good intentions and local opposition. In 1979's Camera Buff, a family man and amateur filmmaker experiences a dramatic change in fortunes when his newfound hobby opens up new horizons but also results in deep marital and philosophical conflicts. Blind Chance, completed in 1981 and denied a release in its native Poland until 1987, presents three possible outcomes to a single, seemingly banal event — a young medical student running to catch a train — and, in the process, explores the relationship between chance and choice. Finally, in 1984's No End, a recently bereaved translator juggles the conflicting demands of her work, caring for her son and her continued visions of her late husband, all against the backdrop of a Poland under the grip of martial law.
As socially conscious as Kieślowski’s earlier documentary shorts, this quartet of films covers a tumultuous period in Polish and Eastern European history, shot with unflinching realism by a filmmaker of distinction.
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentations of all four films * Original lossless mono audio for all films * Optional English subtitles for all films * Audio commentary on Camera Buff by Annette Insdorf, author of Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieślowski * Audio commentary on Blind Chance by film historian Michael Brooke * Ghost of a Chance, a visual essay on No End by Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López
Moral and Martial Anxieties, a discussion with Michael Brooke, exploring the brief and remarkable Polish film renaissance of the turn of the 1980s
Introductions by scholar and critic Michał Oleszczyk to all films * Michał Oleszczyk looks through archive materials for each film * Archival interviews with filmmakers Agnieszka Holland and Krzysztof Zanussi, cinematographers Sławomir Idziak and Jacek Petrycki, actress Grażyna Szapołowska, sound designer Michał Żarnecki, critic Annette Insdorf and Kieślowski collaborator Irena Strzałkowska * Three short films by Kieślowski: The Office (1966), Concert of Requests (1967) and Talking Heads (1980) * Workshop Exercises, a 1987 short film by Marcel Łoziński, Kieślowski's colleague at the Warsaw Documentary Film Studio
Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Corey Brickley
FOUR FILMS BY KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI
Few names are as synonymous with Polish cinema as that of Krzysztof Kieślowski, the renowned auteur responsible for the Dekalog and the Three Colours trilogy. Prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall and his subsequent creative and critical success in France, Kieślowski plied his trade within the confines of the Eastern Bloc, capturing the realities of everyday life under Soviet rule. This collection gathers his four earliest narrative feature films, encapsulating the years 1976–1984.
In 1976's The Scar, a well-intentioned Party loyalist is charged with overseeing the construction of a new chemical plant in the face of fierce resistance and is forced to confront the conflict between his good intentions and local opposition. In 1979's Camera Buff, a family man and amateur filmmaker experiences a dramatic change in fortunes when his newfound hobby opens up new horizons but also results in deep marital and philosophical conflicts. Blind Chance, completed in 1981 and denied a release in its native Poland until 1987, presents three possible outcomes to a single, seemingly banal event — a young medical student running to catch a train — and, in the process, explores the relationship between chance and choice. Finally, in 1984's No End, a recently bereaved translator juggles the conflicting demands of her work, caring for her son and her continued visions of her late husband, all against the backdrop of a Poland under the grip of martial law.
As socially conscious as Kieślowski’s earlier documentary shorts, this quartet of films covers a tumultuous period in Polish and Eastern European history, shot with unflinching realism by a filmmaker of distinction.
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentations of all four films * Original lossless mono audio for all films * Optional English subtitles for all films * Audio commentary on Camera Buff by Annette Insdorf, author of Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieślowski * Audio commentary on Blind Chance by film historian Michael Brooke * Ghost of a Chance, a visual essay on No End by Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López
Moral and Martial Anxieties, a discussion with Michael Brooke, exploring the brief and remarkable Polish film renaissance of the turn of the 1980s
Introductions by scholar and critic Michał Oleszczyk to all films * Michał Oleszczyk looks through archive materials for each film * Archival interviews with filmmakers Agnieszka Holland and Krzysztof Zanussi, cinematographers Sławomir Idziak and Jacek Petrycki, actress Grażyna Szapołowska, sound designer Michał Żarnecki, critic Annette Insdorf and Kieślowski collaborator Irena Strzałkowska * Three short films by Kieślowski: The Office (1966), Concert of Requests (1967) and Talking Heads (1980) * Workshop Exercises, a 1987 short film by Marcel Łoziński, Kieślowski's colleague at the Warsaw Documentary Film Studio
Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Corey Brickley
Maharaja - I really enjoyed it. There are some really decent/good Indian movies.
Warfare - Overrated
The Rider - Very good movie. Chloé Zhao really knows how to show a character inside-out.
Awakenings - Old school movie. Enjoyable and quite nicely made. De Niro was amazing.
Another Earth - It had potential but that's about it.
Eddie the Eagle - Chill movie and nice real life story. Nothing special.
The Professor and the Madman - Pretty good one. Kept my interest and it was beautifully shot.
The Last of the Mohicans -
Daniel was rocking it. Great movie.
Anora - I thought it was overrated but still a good watch.
Warfare - Overrated
The Rider - Very good movie. Chloé Zhao really knows how to show a character inside-out.
Awakenings - Old school movie. Enjoyable and quite nicely made. De Niro was amazing.
Another Earth - It had potential but that's about it.
Eddie the Eagle - Chill movie and nice real life story. Nothing special.
The Professor and the Madman - Pretty good one. Kept my interest and it was beautifully shot.
The Last of the Mohicans -
Daniel was rocking it. Great movie.Anora - I thought it was overrated but still a good watch.
She's a good actress but she should not be playing Helen of Troy.
And even though I really like him I can't see Matt Daman as anything other than Matt Damon
Ellen Page as Achilles isn't even worth mentioning but if this is true then Nolan is going to lose a lot of fans and this movie is going to be a disaster unless it's some sort of alternative universe type shit
And even though I really like him I can't see Matt Daman as anything other than Matt Damon
Ellen Page as Achilles isn't even worth mentioning but if this is true then Nolan is going to lose a lot of fans and this movie is going to be a disaster unless it's some sort of alternative universe type shit
