Dina Iordanova, © DinaView 2021 Marcel Łoziński is Poland’s best-known and most respected documentarian. Even though about twenty (out of a thirty-strong filmography) documentary films by Lozinski can be accessed online without much difficulty (mostly shot by acclaimed cameraman and committed teammate Jacek Petrycki), only a handful are supplied with English subtitles. At the Lodz …
Watched NOMADLAND (2020) and even if l was not particularly taken by it, l find myself thinking of it, so let’s share. First, this is a Buddhist film which quietly asserts liberating oneself from formalised social structures and celebrates ‘living in the now’, and in that l appreciate its message. It is yet another film …
Igort’s UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN NOTEBOOKS made for a challenging read. It is so bleak, so full of violence, wickedness, bestiality, destruction, torture, amorality, sadism, and an endless string of other evil, indiscriminate and inhuman acts of this same range of experience and emotion, that l could only read it in instalments, leaving it for some …
Dina Iordanova l watched Steve McQueen’s MANGROVE (2020), with a heavy heart. This film — about a painful trial that exposes the practice of Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ stance and the extreme racial prejudice of the 1970s — moved me more deeply than his TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE (2013). It may now be 50 …
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