Kino Mania: Loving Vincent (2017)
‘Loving Vincent’, about Van Gogh’s tragic life and death, is certainly one of the most lavish animated films ever produced on the Old Continent.
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Film & TV
Kino Mania: The Lure (Corki Dancingu) (2015)
Bloodthirsty mermaid sisters, Warsaw in the 80s, sequins, and song – What’s not to like about 2015’s Polish cult horror music The Lure (Corki Dancingu)?
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Film Review: The Zookeeper’s Wife
The Zookeeper’s Wife, based on a true story, is a tribute to the spirit of Polish resistance to the tyranny imposed by Hitler’s Third Reich
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Kino Mania: Spoor (2017)
Agnieszka Holland has won the heart of the moviegoers with the environmental thriller ‘Spoor’ (‘Pokot’), based on a novel by Olga Tokarczuk
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Kino Mania December 2016: Wolyn / Smoleńsk / Ostatnia Rodzina
Reviews of Wolyn (Hatred), Smoleńsk, and Ostatnia Rodzina (The Last Family), some of the most popular Polish films of late 2016.
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Kino Mania: The Red Captain (2016)
The epochal shift to Czech capitalism is a merely decorative background to a story that turns into a big-screen penny dreadful in Kollár’s The Red Captain
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Kino Mania: United States of Love (Zjednoczone Stany Miłości) (2016)
Until Tomasz Wasilewski’s United States of Love, the subject of the transition years to capitalism has certainly been underutilized by Polish screenwriters.
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Kino Mania: Walser (2015)
Zbigniew Libera
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Kino Mania: 11 Minutes (2015)
Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski had to work against the clock to accomplish his greatest effort, 11 Minutes,, which was destined for Cannes.
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Kino Mania: Pitbull New Order (2016)
As most master craftsmen, Patryk Vega dexterously reuses the good, bad ,and ugly characters from his most successful crime franchise in Pitbull New Order.
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