MareGaea wrote: I was just wondering, could anybody give me a list of Polish films that are worthwhile watching?
Other films by:
Kieslowski (Decalogue - see what Ebert says about it, Double Life of Veronique,
Three Colours and Kielsowski's earlier stuff and docus).
Kielsowski's screenplay - The Day of the Camel - I think its only in Polish though,
directed by Jerzy Sztuhr.
Wajda - pretty much anything but especially his older stuff - Landscape after the Battle, and other older works. His newest stuff is not as good. His pretty much like Kurosawa I think, great in the beginning but burned out a little now and became too commercialised.
Roman Polanski - The Pianist but also older stuff too. Definately worth seeing.
Other directors:
Krysztof Zanussi
Wojciech Has - Saragossa Manuscript and The Hourglass Sanatorium (Amazon.fr has this one in French and Polish - I acquired it recently :) ).
Studios: the legendary TOR studio :).
Sadly most modern Polish cinema is not watchable. They try to copy Hollywood too much, while they have some talented actors and directors the screenplays are usually poor and plots completely unbelievable. Avoid!
Dzien Swira - Day of the Whacko was pretty good however it has some racist undertones (Black, Asian). However I wouldn't compare it with the stuff above.
You can buy most DVDs from a Polish store like Astabe.com (it mentions which DVDs have English tracks) or from labels such as Criterion Collection, Artificial Eye or
Tartan Video. Kieslowski, Polanski and Wajda are in the Criterion Collection.
You can find Polish films at:
Astabe.com Ebay.pl (more exp than Astabe) and Merlin.pl
US based DVD retailers eg Amazon.com or DVDpacific.com
some European retailers like Amazon.fr/de/uk
and other rare movie sites like Superhappyfun.com or Sazuma.com
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