Bulletin Board Fall 2014
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.
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2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Bulletin Board
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer
Welcome To Our Summer 2014 Issue!
The arts, in all their variety, are mirrors that reflect a people. We owe so much to artists. They make us laugh, cry, think, and see ourselves in our infinite variety, so no wonder we admire those talented people who create images, words and music that enrich our lives.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Features / Films
Hollywood.PL: Beyond the Dream: Personal Roads to the Silver Screen
Talented, gutsy and successful – and each one with a story that rates a movie of its own. This is a book you won’t be able to put down.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Books
Krystyna Wituska: Her Life and Literary Afterlife
The memorial Centre in the German city of Halle Saale will unveil a monument to Krystyna Wituska, a young Polish prisoner executed on June 26, 1944, and two German authors will launch their book, Zelle Nr. 18: Eine Geschichte von Mut und Freundschaft (Cell No. 18: a History of bravery and friendship) to mark the 70th anniversary of her death.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Books / Films
Pola Negri: Hollywood’s First Femme Fatale
Hollywood has been a talent magnet for a long time and one of the first superstars was Poland’s Pola Negri. Justine Jablonska reviews her story, written by Mariusz Kotowski.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Features
A Warsaw Star in Tel Aviv: Fryderyk Járosy at “Li-La-Lo,” 1947-1948
Want an evening at a Polish cabaret? Go with Beth Holmgren. She knows everybody who is anybody – both in Warsaw and Tel Aviv – and will introduce you. Try the “Li-La-Lo” with that charming Hungarian Pole, Fryderyk Járosy, and beautiful Yemenite singer Shoshana Damari.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Interviews
A Conversation with Joanna Trzeciak on Translating
A Conversation with Joanna Trzeciak on Translating
Wisława Szymborska + Tadeusz Różewicz
When she was eleven, Joanna Trzeciak sent Szymborska a poem, beginning a lifelong correspondence. To meet Różewicz, she plotted an accidental meeting in a park. A true lover of poetry obviously doesn’t just leave things to chance.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Interviews
Between Art and Science: A Conversation with Roald Hoffmann
“I don’t worry about science redefining the value of a human being, but I am concerned about technology and the market place doing that,” says Nobel Prize-winner Roald Hoffmann – scientist, playwright and poet.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Bulletin Board
Summer 2014 Bulletin Board
Eric Bednarski’s documentary, Neon, traces the history of neon illumination in Warsaw; a Polish documentary about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising has been made entirely from colourised archival film footage; Bill Johnston wins the Transatlantyk Prize for 2014; the Jagiellonian University celebrates its 650th jubilee with a year-long celebration – and more.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 1 — Winter-Spring / Features
One Summer as a Gallery Girl in Warsaw
Lara Szypszak, who got to know Lublin by studying there, got to know Warsaw by working there, at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art where the staff adopted her and introduced her to their extended family of galleries, performers and offbeat places to eat, party, or just sit around and talk.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Books
Diary: Witold Gombrowicz
A thinker, a genius, a cultural demonologist, Gombrowicz engages manipulates his reader in a game. Łukasz Wodzyński would welcome another round.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Books
(A)pollonia: Twenty-First-Century Polish Drama and Texts for the Stage
This anthology of new Polish plays was published in English with an ambitious goal: to connect with the universal “everyman.” Will Harrington casts an American eye on the proceedings and says, “Yes, they resonate.”
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Books / Poetry
Between Fire and Sleep: Essays On Modern Polish Poetry and Prose
Jaroslaw Anders’ book is at once a “farewell…to a certain way of reading” and “one of the best introductions to twentieth-century Polish literature.” Łukasz Wodzyński reviews.
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