Poland

Wojchiech Jerzy Has’ The Noose (Pętla, 1957)

Pau Bosch Santos analyzes how Wojciech Jerzy Has portrays aspects of addiction in their relation to time.

Julia Zelman recognizes traces of Truffaut's Jules et Jim in Little Crushes but criticizes the film's loose plot line.

Paulina Duda makes a case for Smarzowski's new film and argues that much of the film's credit should go to its editor.

Jack Page analyzes two clashing ways in which the film depicts how to run a business.

Pau Bosch Santos places some of Polish director Wojciech Has' artistic approaches in a biographical context.

Moritz Pfeifer questions the political message behind Andrzej Wajda's The Wedding.

Pau Bosch Santos shows how Wojciech Has manages to update Jan Potocki's master piece for his contemporaries.

In his article on Jan Jakub Kolski's Pornography, Konstanty Kuzma claims that the filmmaker misunderstood the original work by Witold Gombrowicz.

Jack Page discusses Poland's Nights & Days, and analyzes, among other things, aspects of Antczak's Humanist agenda.

Konstanty Kuzma discusses aspects of comedy in Andrzej Munk's Bad Luck.