Zbigniew Cybulski, Popiół i Diament |
Sunday 5 October to Sunday 26 October 2014.The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) at Federation Square is delighted to present a collection of landmark Polish films curated by one of the most accomplished and respected directors of our time, Martin Scorsese in Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema. Following his 2011 visit to the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódž – the birthplace of the Polish Film School of the 1950s and 60s that put Polish cinema on the film map – Scorsese was compelled to bring the great masterpieces of Polish cinema to audiences.
Long drawn to the power of Polish cinema from his days as a film student in New York, Scorsese selected 21 seminal films that profoundly resonated with him. Masterpieces of Polish Cinema includes works from luminaries such as Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Zanussi, Andrzej Munk, Jerzy Kawalerowicz and Wojciech Has.
ACMI is proud to be showcasing 13 of the 21 films featured in Masterpieces of Polish Cinema from Sunday 5 October to Sunday 26 October 2014. Screening exclusively at ACMI in Australia, all 13 films have been digitally remastered and are newly subtitled with the assistance of Scorsese’s Film Foundation.
This special season, which spans three decades between 1957 and 1987, captures and critiques Poland’s social and political upheaval of the time. For many critics and viewers, the films stand up to repeated viewings for their emotional and creative depth, as well as their sweeping, humanistic themes.
Commenting on Polish cinema, Scorsese said: “This is a cinema of personal vision, very strong social commitment and a poetic responsibility from which we’ve all learned, and which sets a very high standard, which as a filmmaker, I strive to achieve with every film.”
ACMI’s Head of Film Programs, Richard Sowada is immensely proud that ACMI will be able to share these cinematic masterpieces with Australian audiences.
Ashes and Diamond ** Blind Chance ** Camouflage ** Eroica **
The Hourglass Sanatorium ** Innocent Sorcerers ** Illumination ** Man of Iron * Mother Joan of the Angels ** Night Train *8 The Saragossa Manuscript ** The Promised Land ** Short Film about Killing
Lucyna Winnicka, Matka Joanna od aniołów |
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