Demon (2015): The film and its director’s tragic suicide behind it
The late Marcin Wrona’s rare Polish horror fable ‘Demon’ shows the evolution of a promising cineaste who would still have a lot to say to moviegoers.
Read moreThe late Marcin Wrona’s rare Polish horror fable ‘Demon’ shows the evolution of a promising cineaste who would still have a lot to say to moviegoers.
Read moreWith Karbala, journalism-educated filmmaker Krzysztof Łukaszewicz might become the standard-bearer of a politically-engaged but uncerebral cinema in his country.
Read moreIn a beer/vokda-obsessed nation, in the face of a devastating fruit import ban from Russia, a handful of Polish cider-makers are brewing a new tradition.
Read moreEvery embassy lives somehow in a parallel world suspended in a space that has its own rules. This is even more true for the North Korean mission in Warsaw.
Read moreIn Onirica – Field of Dogs, the Smolensk tragedy suddenly bursts into the grief of Adam (Michał Tatarek), a poet and unfulfilled professor of literature.
Read moreBody/Ciało is very nearly a cinematic manifesto addressed to a mainstream audience. Score: ★★★☆☆
Read moreImbued with western-movie imagery and nostalgia for the era of cassette tapes, Disco Polo is overtly entertaining and frivolous.
Read moreFootball teams in Poland constitute the most profitable and exposed branch of a multi-tentacled sports hub. In 2013 a group of Wisła Kraków suporters, with the endorsement of their own klub sportowy, was allowed to establish Trenuj Sporty Walki, a special section entirely devoted to combat disciplines including Muay Thai, MMA and K1.
Read morePolish cinema doesn’t have many family dynasties like the Sheens or the Douglases, but it does have father-and-son duo Jan
Read moreWhen Poland’s national team qualified for the 1982 World Cup, it was a welcome, if unexpected, distraction from the grim
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