Friday, August 12 2011

Mogul hopes he’s built a Krakow-adjacent Hollywood

By Steven Zeitchik

About 20 miles outside of Krakow, amid fields that unfold endlessly beyond Poland's second-largest city, a "Blade Runner"-like complex looms: Fourteen silvery domes, their interiors tricked out like the chambers of a spaceship, connected to one another via glass tunnel.

Thursday, December 9 2010

‘The Magician of Lublin’ Is The Tale of a Talented Man Who Simply Cannot Control Himself

By Dan Barrett

A man wrestles with his own limitless appetites in this moving, early novel from Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Tuesday, November 16 2010

Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3 became a cultural phenomenon

By Mark Swed

Wednesday, March 17 2010

Behemoth Frontman Faces Prison for Bible Destruction. Fair Charge or Foul Call?

By Chris Colgan

Nergal, leader of Polish metal act Behemoth, is charged with offending religious beliefs in his home country. Are metal fans really justified in their outrage?

Friday, August 28 2009

Katyn

By Stuart Henderson

Legendary Polish director Andrzej Wajda tackles a very personal subject in the harrowing Katyn, the long-denied Soviet massacre of the Polish officer corps in WWII.

Thursday, April 9 2009

Warsaw Village Band: Infinity

By Deanne Sole

'Powerful' is the Band's default setting.

Wednesday, December 10 2008

POV: Inheritance

By Cynthia Fuchs

This notion of "help" -- impossible, necessary -- colors Inheritance, a documentary about living with memories of a Nazi father.

Monday, June 2 2008

Film documents brutal story of Stalin’s atrocities in Poland

By Tom Hundley