October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 2
DescriptionDescription A woman's decision to have an abortion hinges on her husband's life-or-death condition. She (Krystyna Janda) tries to enlist a Catholic doctor (Aleksander Bardini) in her decision whether to abort the baby she's having by another man. The old doctor is faced with an insoluble ethical problem-torn between his beliefs and his knowledge of...
October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 3
DescriptionDescription Christmas with the family is interrupted by a man's former lover. Janusz (Daniel Olbrychski) and his family attend Christmas Eve services at their church. He recognizes a lonely woman's face in the crowd and hides from her. Home again, his enjoyment of the holiday celebrations is interrupted by someone at the doorthe woman from...
October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 4
DescriptionDescription In the fourth film of the series, Kieslowski examines the sexual taboos underlying the Fourth Commandment, "Honor thy Mother and Father." While her father is away on business, a young woman named Anka (Adrianna Biedrzynska) discovers an unopened letter from her mother who died in childbirth. What Anka reads threatens to unlock the long...
October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 6
DescriptionDescription A full-length version of this film was released to great acclaim as A Short Film About Love. The most romantic episode of the series, it deals with Tomek, a 19-year-man (Olaf Lubaszenko) who falls madly in love with his older next door neighbor Magda (Grazyna Szapolowska). For some time, Tomek has spied on her,...
October 16, 2019
BLOODS ON THE MOON
DescriptionDescription Frederic Cassidy's Kissing Time is a reverential and referential tribute to silent films, made in the tradition of 1920s cinema. Bloods on the Moon is a textured examination of a father forced to decide which to believe, his instinct or his love for his son. Elizabeth's fiance has left her for another in Shoe...
October 16, 2019
BORIS GODUNOV
DescriptionDescription A compelling drama based on Pushkin's play about the guilt-ridden 16th-century Czar Boris Godunov, this version of Russia's most famous opera features the great Alexander Pirogov as Boris and the Bolshoi Orchestra and Chorus. Director Vera Stroyeva staged passages of Mussorgsky's classic opera in the Kremlin and throughout Moscow to powerful effect. Stroyeva makes...
October 16, 2019
DEATH IN VENICE, CA
DescriptionDescription Underwater is the story of an introverted twelve-year-old girl, Patty Rose, who has developed a terrible fear of water since the death of her father. The collision of Patty's fantasies and a real-life crisis force her to confront her fears. Waving Not Drowning is the darkly comedic portrayal of a young man searching for...
October 16, 2019
DEFICIENCY (CARENCES)
DescriptionDescription Based on events that occurred in France in 1984, Deficiency is a horrific and all-too-realistic tale of murder and betrayal. It tells the story of Roland Resse, a loner and wanderer, who takes a room with a kindly older Jewish woman, Mrs. Martin. By day his fascist coworker fills him with anti-Semitic ideas and...
October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 1
DescriptionDescription Krzysztof (Henryk Baranowski), a middle-aged mathematician, uses his home computers to strengthen his relationship with his young son (Wojciech Klata). Krzysztof insists on raising his son according to principles of scientific rationalism, and realizes-tragically-that his computer calculations cannot render the world predictable or safe. Henry Sheehan (Hollywood Reporter) commented "Kieslowski sketches out a complete...
October 16, 2019
BLACK HARVEST (SORT HOST)
DescriptionDescription A haunting epic drama about the tragedies, passions, and losses of a wealthy Danish family. Set in Denmark's countryside at the turn of the century, this is a dark tale about a tyrannical patriarch whose black-hearted desires sweep him, his wife, and his four daughters towards a bitter and tragic end. While his submissive...
