Monika’s Pensieve

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Nóż w wodzie (Poland, 1962)
Seen: Sunday, 12th July 2009 (cinema, Lato Filmów festival)
Runtime: 94′
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz
Production House: Zespol Filmowy "Kamera"
Plot: (from imdb)
On their way to a sailing trip, an aging husband and wife invite along an emphatic young hitchhiker out of sheer patronization.
Scene From The Film

Impressions In Short
Amusing [...]

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Záhrada (Slovakia/France, 1995)
Seen: Saturday, 6th June 2009 (DVD, repeat viewing)
Runtime: 99′
Director: Martin Sulík
Cast: Marián Labuda, Roman Luknár, Zuzana Sulajová, Jana Svandová
Production House: Artcam International, Charlie's Bratislava, STV, Slovenská filmová tvorba Koliba (SFT)
Plot: (from imdb)
Jakub’s life arrived at a dead-end. He leaves his job, and gets into conflict with his father. The trouble just grows [...]

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El crimen del padre Amaro (Mexico/Spain/Argentina/France, 2002)
Seen: Friday, 15th May 2009 (DVD, repeat viewing)
Runtime: 114′
Director: Carlos Carrera
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Ana Claudia Talancón, Sancho Gracia, Angélica Aragón, Luisa Huertas, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Gastón Melo, Damián Alcázar, Andrés Montiel
Production House: Alameda Films, Artcam International, Blu Films, Cinecolor, Foprocine, Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz, Ibermedia European [...]

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De verloren kolonie (Netherlands, 2008)
Seen: Wednesday, 13th May 2009 (cinema, Planete Doc Review)
Runtime: 70′
Director: Astrid Bussink
Production House: Zeppers Film en TV BV, NPS Television
Plot: A documentary about the first Primate Research Centre in the world, which happens to be in Abkhazia. It has a very glorious past - it is, for example, where the [...]

Latawce (Poland, 2007)
Seen: Wednesday, 13th May 2009 (cinema, Planete Doc Review)
Runtime: 80′
Director: Beata Dzianowicz
Production House: TVP, Eureka Media
Plot: The makers of the film organize a documentary film course in a Kabul art school. What kind of films will the students come up with?
Trailer
Haven’t found any sort of clips of this on-line, sorry.
Impressions In Short
The film [...]

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White King, Red Rubber, Black Death (Belgium/Australia/Canada/Denmark/Finland/France/Germany/Netherlands/UK, 2003)
Seen: Monday, 20th April 2009 (cinema, Afrykamera festival)
Runtime: 84′
Director: Peter Bate
Production House: Périscope Productions, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Arte, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Interkerkelijke Omroep Nederland (IKON), Vlaamse Radio en Televisie (VRT), Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Yleisradio (YLE), History Television, SBS Television, Danmarks Radio (DR)
Plot: (from [...]

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Waltz with Bashir (Israel/Germany/France/USA/Finland/Switzerland/Belgium/Australia, 2008)
Seen: Monday, 13th April 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 90′
Director: Ari Folman
Production House: Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Les Films d'Ici, Razor Film Produktion GmbH
Plot: An animated documentary that tries to piece together a memory from the Israeli-Lebanese war in 1982. Where was Ari Folman during the Sabra and Shatila massacre and what was [...]

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Osama (Afghanistan/Netherlands/Japan/Ireland/Iran, 2003)
Seen: Saturday, 11th April 2009 (DVD)
Runtime: 83′
Director: Siddiq Barmak
Cast: Marina Golbahari, Arif Herati, Zubaida Sahar
Production House: Barmak Film, Makhmalbaf Productions, Hubert Bals Fund, LeBrocquy Fraser Productions, NHK
Plot: During the Taleban regime in Afghanistan, a widow decides to dress her daughter up as a boy, so that at least one family member can [...]

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Po-lin. Okruchy pamieci (Germany/Poland, 2008)
Seen: Wednesday, 1st April 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 82′
Director: Jolanta Dylewska
Narrator: Piotr Fronczewski
Production House: A Jour Film, Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Angelegenheiten der Kultur und der Medien (BKM), Bomedia, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, PISF
Plot: A documentary about Poland’s Jewish community in the 1930s.
Trailer

Impressions In Short
The informative value of this film is huge and I [...]

Fortunately, April is not as confusing as March ;) Nothing that I’m veeery excited about though.
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Waltz With Bashir (Israel/Germany/France/USA/Finland/Switzerland/Belgium/Australia, 2008)
Polish Distributor: Against Gravity (3rd April 2009)
I spotted this originally during the Warsaw Film Festival last year.
Che: Part One (France/Spain/USA, 2008)
Polish Distributor: SPInka (3rd April 2009)
Release Date (worldwide): 21st May 2008
Runtime: 126′
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Benicio [...]