Tag: Jakub Gierszal

Criterion Collection: The Lure | Blu-ray Review

Agnieszka Smoczynska’s idiosyncratic directorial debut The Lure has cult classic written all over it. A fairy tale about two siren sisters in 1980’s Warsaw...

Beyond Words | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review

Stranger in a Strange Land: Antoniak Explores the Black and White of the Refugee Crisis The ongoing refugee crisis provides the framework of Urszula Antoniak’s...

The Lure | Review

They Could Go on Singing: Smoczynska’s Debut a Fairy Tale Grim Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska crafts a memorable directorial debut with The Lure, a 1980s...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 88. Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor

Spoor Director: Agnieszka Holland Writer: Agnieszka Holland, Stephen Hulik, Olga Tokarczuk We’ve been tracking the latest project from Agnieszka Holland for some time, which was up until...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 100. Urszula Antoniak’s Beyond Words

Beyond Words Director: Urszula Antoniak Writer: Urszula Antoniak Polish director Urszula Antoniak won Best First Feature (and several other prizes) at Locarno for her 2009 debut Nothing...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #34. Agnieszka Holland’s Game Count

Game Count Director: Agnieszka Holland Writers: Agnieszka Holland, Olga Tokarczuk Polish auteur Agnieszka Holland, once the protégé of Krzysztof Zanussi, is still best remembered for early 90s...

Deutschlands: Carla Juri, Craig Robinson & Markees Christmas Aren’t Foreign to Hartigan’s “Morris From America”

Wurst and sauerkraut appear to be served up with hip hop beats in Chad Hartigan's sophomore film currently in the closing stages of production. Deadline...

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Kika | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Dominik Moll’s ‘Dossier 137’

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Sirat | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

A Bridge Too Far: Laxe Enters the Zone “The Zone...