The Zookeeper’s Wife
Book reviews are usually assigned to reviewers who know something about the subject at hand. Film reviews? Not so much. So CR takes a look at The Zookeeper’s Wife… and also some of the reviews.
Films
2017 Vol. 9 No. 1—Spring / Films
2016 Vol. 8 No. 1—Winter / Films
OJCU – To My Father
In 1938, a little girl, Alina Bandrowska, saw her father arrested by the NKVD, the Soviet secret police. He never returned.
2016 Vol. 8 No. 2—Spring / Films
Bridging Urban America
A documentary about an engineer? Take a look at Ralph Modjeski’s bridges. They are breathtakingly beautiful and they were built to last. Basia and Leonard Myszynski’s film is a must.
2016 Vol. 8 No. 2—Spring / Films
War and Peace in Vilnius
In Lithuania to study the once culturally diverse now vanished communities of the region, Lynn Lubamersky found a BBC TV crew there too, filming “War and Peace.” That’s enough to set a historian thinking about imperial Russia then, imperial Putin now, the communities that don’t want to vanish… and the BBC’s Downton Abbey-style production.
2016 Vol. 8 No. 2—Spring / Films
Karski and the Lords of Humanity
“Tell your people that they have a friend in the White House.” But the genocide continued, and in the end the friend gave Karski’s country to Stalin.
2016 Vol. 8 No. 2—Spring / Films
Childhood Denied
Myra Dziama’s gentle film is mostly about childhood restored, with love and understanding. And the “custody battle” launched in the UN by Moscow’s Poland for the children who chose Canada.
Films
Three Films at the EUFF
Poland’s “Bogowie” is a very exciting cardiology story. Really! Finland/Estonia’s “The Fencer” is about the graceful – but oh, so bourgeois – art of fencing. And a quirky doc about Shakespeare.
2015 Vol. 7 No. 3 — Fall / Films
Kościuszko: A Man Ahead of His Time
There are more statues of Kościuszko in the United States than any other historical figure except George Washington. When Kościuszko talked about freedom, he meant it. So why don’t Americans know who he is? This documentary is a must for a national broadcast. PBS, take note.
2015 Vol. 7 No. 2 — Summer / Films
Jill Godmilow: “Wow, We Did That?!”
“Wow, we did that?!” Yes, dear children, listen to Jill Godmilow and learn what your brave and smart elders once did, nothing less than “the greatest revolution in the world.”
2015 Vol. 7 No. 1 — Spring / Films
Hollywood Place Conversations: All About Ida
It’s a black-and-white film about a Polish Catholic nun that America didn’t ridicule but fell in love with. Agnieszka Niezgoda asks three members of the Academy, “Why?”
Films
Tarpan: Repainting an Ancient Picture
The ancient breed of horses, the Tarpans, were extinct but Polish scientists bred an almost perfect descendent, and called it konik. Today, the koniks have been reintroduced into the wild by an international team of scientists, documentary makers Jen Miller and Sophie Peregrum filmed them, and Justine Jablonska has the story.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Features / Films
NEON
The Neon signs of the communist era were works of art, even though the product was never in stock. Eric Bednarski celebrates the art and the artists.
2014 Vol. 6 No. 3 — Fall-Winter / Films / Interviews
Chatting with NEON’s Eric Bednarski
“I’m pro-Neon,” says Eric Bednarski. Take a look and you will be too.
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