POLISH FILM CLUB 'OKO'

Below are synopsis of the remaining movies from two Lozinski's CDs - I haven't seen any of them (no PAL dvd player), so for compilation below used the booklet that came with the CD set, authored by Tadeusz Sobolewski. Please read and vote for the film YOU would like to see - because most of the films are relatively short we probably will be able to see several top-runners. The poll allows for multiple choices (you can vote for up to 3 movies): 1.  HAPPY END / HAPPY END 1972/16' Lozinski's first film:  real psychodrama taking place in front of camera and exploring themes of herd mentality and aggression of group towards individual.  In this film director for the first time  tries formula which he later uses in many films: artificially provoking situations he needs in order  to probe the mentality of protagonists and reveal something. 2.  ZDERZENIE CZOLOWE / FRONT COLLISION 1975/11' Camera is recreating the life of a model railway worker, for who...

7:30 PM - Marcel Lozinski documentaries (2006 z Polskiej Szkoly Dokumentu).  The set of 2 CDs contains 14 documentaries from the recipient of many international awards, all looking interesting and covering years 1972-1998, so it was rather a hard choice, and this is what I decided to fill 70 minutes of next OKO meeting with: 1. Wizyta/The visit. 1974. 16'  Analyzing the role of media in lives of people under the lenses: Urszula Flis is an attractive media object - she is running a country farm and is also a connoisseur of literature, an intellectual exchanging correspondence with writers. Filmmaker arranges a meeting with a journalist who visits the heroine with preconceived thesis that her country life makes no sense, but Urszula upsets the cart not fitting into this scenario. 2.)  Krol/The King. 1974.  7' Film made by accident on the way back from filming 'The visit'.  With 5 minutes of the tape left, the film tells the story of the bartender, self-describe...

Matka Joanna od Aniolow, dir. J. Kawalerowicz He teaches Polish film classics in a close focus at UW. Students in Dr. Tomasz Łysak's course of Polish Culture and Society 1944-89 in Film at University of Washington discuss the films trying to move back in time to their release. New episodes each week. Somehow, I cannot upoload the youtube video, but link here, let me know, if the link works; will fix it, if needed: http://www.youtube.com/user/tomaszlysak#p/u/1/qwyydg3G7jA Over at Radio  Wisla there is an interview (in Polish) with dr. Tomasz Lysak: http://www.radiowisla.com/