Retrospectives

Retrospectives
Reflections on stand-out films of the past.

Wojchiech Jerzy Has’ The Noose (Pętla, 1957)

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

Anastasia Eleftheriou looks at three of Želimir Žilnik's so-called docu-fictions.

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.

Nicholas Hudáč examines how Štefan Uher adopts Czechoslovak identity in his pre-New Wave pic The Sun in a Net.

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.

Gal Kirn and Vedrana Madžar reflect on the history of Yugoslav film during the golden age of the "New Yugoslav Film" between 1963 and 1973.