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Mar 6, 2012 · Asking Zulawski questions about his work proves daunting, as he is himself an incessant questioner, and very defensive of his art and the details of his process. “Why am I [or why are you] doing ____?” is one of his favorite questions, so it is only fitting that his viewers should ask themselves the same thing.
May 24, 2024 · Andrzej Żuławski's belated and compromised masterwork, filmed in the 1970s and unseen until the late 1980s. I’m Polish-American. When the Buddha instructs “Life is suffering,” we Eastern ...
Almost always moving, both chasing and interrogating the actors, the camera never hides or shies away. Rather, it is locked into a crazed dance with its subjects. The following interview is my second conversation with Żuławski on record, which followed a trip to Poland the previous summer.
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Feb 26, 2016 · Andrzej Zulawski, who sadly passed away on February 17th, with his bold explorations of sexuality, and horror bathed in a specific kind of surrealism, psychedelia and pathos, cannot be easily placed within the film canon.
Andrzej Żuławski (Polish: [ˈandʐɛj ʐuˈwafskʲi]; 22 November 1940 – 17 February 2016) was a Polish film director and writer best known for his 1981 film Possession. Żuławski often went against mainstream commercialism in his films, and enjoyed success mostly with European art-house audiences.
The first American retrospective of Andrzej Żuławski offers the chance to discover an auteur whose idiosyncratic vision is as radical, overwhelming and instantly recognizable—it may take no longer than a few shots—as those of canonized masters like Robert Bresson and Andrej Tarkovskij.
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A non-conformist director, screenwriter, novelist, essayist, his approach to storytelling is idiosyncratic and characterised by explosions of violence, sexuality, and despair. His visions are influenced by his experiences in wartime and communist Poland and his French education.
