East European Cinema

The Documentaries of Marcel Łoziński (b. 1940)

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 …

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THOUGHTS ON RACE, MEDIA AND MEMORY: FROM MANGROVE (2020) TO THE COLONY (1964) 

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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