Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema is a touring film season that introduces audiences to brilliant, digitally restored classics of Polish cinema, some never before screened in the UK. The season, personally selected by Martin Scorcese, includes films from Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Roman Polanski, Wojciech Jerzy Has and Krzysztof Kieslowski.
Listen to Andy Willis, Reader in Film Studies at the University of Salford, talk about what the season has in store:
The UK Tour of Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema is presented by Filmhouse, in partnership with the BFI Southbank and the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival, and supported by the BFI’s Programming Development Fund, awarding funds from the National Lottery.
Previously in this season
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Knife in the Water
Roman Polański’s first feature mixed ostensibly simple ingredients: two men; a woman; a yacht; a vast expanse of water; and a haunting jazz score by…
Cinema
Ashes and Diamonds
Long established as one of Polish cinema’s supreme masterpieces, Ashes and Diamonds vividly captures the turbulence and confusion immediately following the Second World War, as a…
Cinema
Night Train
A sleeper train rockets through the night; among its passengers might be a murderer. Leon Niemczyk (Knife in the Water) and Lucyna Winnicka are strangers sharing…
Cinema
The Hourglass Sanatorium
A hallucinatory head-swiveller of a film, which combines several of Bruno Schulz's short fantasy works into a floridly baroque journey of a man visiting a…
Cinema
Man of Iron
As the Solidarity protests swelled in 1980, Wajda grabbed camera and crew, pulled ready-made characters off the shelf (from his earlier Man of Marble) and…
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Short Film About Killing
A grimly confrontational study of the protracted process of ending someone's life, whether through casual murder or meticulously calibrated execution. Kieślowski's masterpiece contributed to a…