Roman Polański, dir. Laurent Bouzereau BY Darek Arest Film This movie corrupts the critical viewer. As a documentary, it’s extremely biased, inconsistent, and superficial. But its subject defends it so effectively, that the viewing can hardly be considered a waste of time
I Met Fantastic People Talk with Anatol Gotfryd Literature ‘I recall walking the streets of Pruszków after the Warsaw Uprising. I had no home or place to sleep, but the day was so beautiful, so nice!’
PHOTOGRAPHY, STILLS & GNASH:63 Days of War Photography BY Chris Niedenthal Art The 63 days in question is the time it took for the Warsaw Uprising to start and stop. The year it started was 1944
SOMETHING OR OTHER:The Portrait of Zuzanna Ginczanka BY Irena Grudzińska-Gross Literature The irony is caused also by the contrast with another poem on which ‘Non omnis moriar’ is modeled. That model poem was very well known to Ginczanka’s generation: it was ‘My Testament’ by one of the Romantic Polish bards, Juliusz Słowacki.
PHOTOGRAPHY, STILLS & GNASH: Love at First Click BY Chris Niedenthal Art Friedmann/Capa united in part by their hatred of fascism both went to Spain at the start of the Civil War in 1936, where they were slowly but steadily sucked into the whirlwind of war and war photography
War Children.The Heart of Darkness BY Tomasz Cyz Theatre Jan Kott wrote that in Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, history is shown as a nightmare, something that shocks and terrifies; that it is opaque like a nightmare. ‘And, like in a nightmare, everyone gets bogged down in it.’ In Warlikowski’s ‘Macbeth’, this nightmare seems to have no end. Nor a beginning
