Tragedy as Art: Miasto 44
Sometimes art can touch what intellectual debates only circle, but that touch can cause searing pain.
Sometimes art can touch what intellectual debates only circle, but that touch can cause searing pain.
Compared to Keats, Marcel Proust, and even to “Bob Dylan, William Shakespeare, Pablo Neruda and James Dean rolled into one,” Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński was passionate, erotic, heroic, idealistic and incomparably prolific. His life and his art were one, his death made him legend.
Martin Grzadka is a pragmatic, successful businessman who loves to promote Canada-Poland business. But when he writes about his feelings when the national anthems of his native land and his adopted country were played in the presence of the two countries’ heads of state, well you can almost hear the heartbeats.
The Color of Courage: The war took away his childhood, and indelibly etched his memories on his mind. While in The Polish Experience through World War II: A Better Day Has Not Come, master weaver Aleksandra Ziołkowska-Boehm presents a tapestry of wartime experiences.
Agnieszka Holland to direct two “House of Cards” episodes; British/Australian filmmaker Simon Target brings us “A Town Called Brzostek,” and Canada & Poland honor their forces that fought together during WWII.