MAY 7 - SPECIAL SEASON: FROM ASHES TO IRON, ANDRZEJ WAJDA
May 7 - 7:00pm
Kanal
Andrzej Wajda (1956) 95 mins
The 2nd of Wajda’s intense War trilogy is a stark & moving depiction of the Dantesque descent of partisans into the claustrophobic sewers of Warsaw to escape the Nazis during the September 1944 uprising. Deftly mixing poetry & realism, & providing an extraordinary portrait of a country scarred by the horrors of war, this is a key film of the New Polish cinema, & winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes.
Imported 35mm print of the new restoration courtesy of Filmoteka Narodowa.
May 7 - 8:45pm
Man of Marble
Andrzej Wajda (1977) 165 mins M
Feisty & intense student Agnieszka (Krystyna Janda) finds, in researching the life of inspirational 1950s bricklayer-hero Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwilowicz), that she’s getting the run-around from official sources as to what really happened to her famous subject who disappeared years ago. Owing more than a little to the narrative framework of Citizen Kane, Wajda’s stinging critique of Stalinism marks a major contribution to Poland’s so-called “Cinema of Moral Concern” & is remarkable for its disturbing, far-reaching implications about truth, myth & the media.
Imported 35mm print of the new restoration courtesy of Filmoteka Narodowa.
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