Hocus Pocus shows an attempt to persuade a young illusionist to join the party. In the film, these attempts are compared to the tricks of an illusionist who repels the party’s attacks with its own weapon – slogan propaganda.Read More »
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The auction of things found in Warsaw buses and trams is a pretext for the director to show a gallery of faces of Warsaw smarties and other respected representatives of the consumer society. The film proves that the Christmas “run for carp”, in various forms, is a traditional national sport of Poles.
Quote: Record of the preparation of the election for employee of the year in one of the Warsaw companies. The contest procedure is complex and multi-stage. Conscientiousness and honesty, but also social work. The winner’s prize is a watch.
In the cadre we see typical scenes from the company of the People’s Republic of Poland, relations of the director with employees, stretching meetings, slogans on the walls and ubiquitous cigarettes.Read More »
Some days she imagines that by her sheer will she can make body parts fall off of people who seem vicious to her. And some other days everyone around her looks beautiful. And when she was little, she wished that flowers would grow out of her footprints.Read More »
When there’s a crisis in power, the man who holds this power is also personally disturbed. His defeat is thorough and complete. A dictator, in a moment of serious national crisis, confronted in the streets and countryside by revolt and guerilla, makes a long speech on TV, looking for an illusionary peace. But reality is stronger than his fiction, and control gets out of hand. For him, there’s only one way out: a pathetic confession and going off the air.Read More »
Documentary on the making of “fotoromanzi”, popular comic strips using live action photgraphs instead of drawings. Early morning in an Italian town. Magazines are delivered to a kiosk. People buy the magazines which depict love stories and romances in cartoon styles using photographs. Men and women from all walks of life are shown reading the magazines. We are introduced to four people who go to a basement studio and there pose for photographs for the magazines. The photos are developed and various props and dialogues are painted in. The actors read the finished produce and are seen returning to their everyday lives. One of the fotoromanzi stars, Sergio Raimondi, is seen being idolised by the women in a tenement building.Read More »
One of the best-known gems of Latvian cinematography and the most distinctive film by the master director Herz Frank. For ten whole minutes, the camera never leaves the face of a young boy watching a puppet show, and through this child’s soul the viewer experiences the struggle between good and evil by observing the boy’s unmediated emotions, which make him ten minutes older, more experienced and emotionally mature.Read More »
