Kino Mania: Red Spider (2015)
Can a filmmaker create a thriller evading the usual mechanisms of suspense? Directed by rookie Marcin Koszałka, Red Spider has neither the “who did it” nor the “how” at the core.
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Film & TV
Kino Pod Baranami’s 16th Silent Film Festival
The 16th Silent Film Festival takes place from 3-6 December at Kino Pod Baranami, bringing silent cinema masterpieces from all over to Krakow.
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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.
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Kino Mania: Karbala (2015)
With Karbala, journalism-educated filmmaker Krzysztof Łukaszewicz might become the standard-bearer of a politically-engaged but uncerebral cinema in his country.
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All Brutal on the Eastern Front: A belated view of ‘Generation War’
‘Generation War’ is a seriously flawed work, albeit an attempt, of sorts, to get to grips with the experience of so-called “ordinary” Germans.
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Kino Mania: Onirica – Field of Dogs (2013)
In Onirica – Field of Dogs, the Smolensk tragedy suddenly bursts into the grief of Adam (Michał Tatarek), a poet and unfulfilled professor of literature.
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Kino Mania: Body/Ciało (2015)
Body/Ciało is very nearly a cinematic manifesto addressed to a mainstream audience. Score: ★★★☆☆
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Kino Mania: Disco Polo (2015)
Imbued with western-movie imagery and nostalgia for the era of cassette tapes, Disco Polo is overtly entertaining and frivolous.
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Kino Mania: Vabank 1981
Polish cinema doesn’t have many family dynasties like the Sheens or the Douglases, but it does have father-and-son duo Jan
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Kino Mania: Mundial Gra o Wszystko (Mundial, The Highest Stakes) 2013
When Poland’s national team qualified for the 1982 World Cup, it was a welcome, if unexpected, distraction from the grim
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