February 2012
17 posts
“Literature was not Rosset’s only interest. Grove also published film...”
– From Barney Rosset’s obituary in The Guardian.
“One image that did become synonymous with the 1970 protest movement, is the...”
– Black Thursday by Antoni Krauze and its relationship to Wajda’s Czlowiek z zelaza
The last letter of a burning man
Dear Maria,
Do not cry. It would be a waste of energy, and you will be needing it.
I lived sixty years for this moment. It couldn’t be otherwise, forgive me.
I will die so that truth, humanity and freedom do not die, and this is a lesser evil than the death of millions.
Do not come to Warsaw- nothing and no one can help me, We are approaching Warsaw, and I’m writing on the train,...
MY REVIEW OF JOHN AKOMFRAH'S NEW FILM, THE NINE... →
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A Short Film About Love
It seems that Kieslowski’s film, A Short Film About Love, expanded from its place in his towering Dekalog series, covers all types of love; but ultimately, and perhaps somewhat cruelly, dissolving them into a type of illusion by the films bloodied end.
Tomek, a virginal 19 year old post office worker, watches Magda through his telescope at 8.30 every night. His alarm clock rings, and he...
