An Adventure of a Thinking Person
Łukasz Maciejewski
kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.plThe Leon Schiller Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź (Poland)
Abstract
A book review of two volumes from Barbara Hollender’s series on Polish film directors (the third volume is being prepared). In the volumes Od Wajdy do Komasy [From Wajda to Komasa] (2014) and Od Kutza do Czekaja [From Kutz to Czekaj] (2016) the author presents fifty portraits of directors representing various generations – from the masters and classics of the Polish cinema to the youngest of filmmakers. She maintains a similar structure in all the essays. Hollender describes the creative path of each director, she presents quotes from numerous interviews together with analysis of chosen titles, sociological and cultural contexts. It is also a chronicle of Polish cinema and its coryphes – with Has, Wajda, Kutz, Zanussi and Kawalerowicz at the helm. However the stories of the younger directors are also fascinating: Szumowska, Czekaj or Komasa. They grew up in a different era, and have different dreams and plans for the future, but just like their masters they want to create and work, and they believe in professional fulfilment. So the people portrayed by Hollender are different in almost every respect – artistic temperament, ambition, views on reality, and finally achievements. But they do share one thing – a creative passion. As Filip Bajon emphasises: We all live in the cinema.
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Barbara Hollender, Polish cinema, author cinemaReferences
Hollender, Barbara, Od Kutza do Czekaja, Prószyński i S-ka, Warszawa 2016.
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Hollender, Barbara, Od Wajdy do Komasy, Prószyński i S-ka, Warszawa 2014.
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Łukasz Maciejewskikwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
The Leon Schiller Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź Poland
Filmoznawca, krytyk filmowy i teatralny. Członek Europejskiej Akademii Filmowej, Międzynarodowego Stowarzyszenia Krytyków Teatralnych (AICT) oraz Międzynarodowej Federacji Krytyków Filmowych (FIPRESCI). Dyrektor programowy festiwalu „Kino na Granicy” w Cieszynie. Wykładowca na Wydziale Aktorskim w Szkole Filmowej w Łodzi oraz na Wydziale Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych Uniwersytetu SWPS. Autor wielu książek (Przygoda myśli, Aktorki. Spotkania, Wszystko jest lekko dziwne, Flirtując z życiem), stały współpracownik kilkunastu czasopism, ekspert PISF oraz telewizji HBO, stały komentator „Tygodnika Kulturalnego” w TVP Kultura. W 2015 r. opublikował tom esejów Aktorki. Portrety.
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