Post Tagged with: "Hollywood"

Hollywood Place Conversations: All About Ida
2015 Vol. 7 No. 1 — Spring / Films

Hollywood Place Conversations: All About Ida

by × on February 24, 2015 at 5:30 pm ×

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?”

Hollywood.PL: Beyond the Dream: Personal Roads to the Silver Screen
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Features / Films

Hollywood.PL: Beyond the Dream: Personal Roads to the Silver Screen

by × on June 14, 2014 at 3:45 pm ×

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.

Pola Negri: Hollywood’s First Femme Fatale
2014 Vol. 6 No. 2 — Summer / Books / Films

Pola Negri: Hollywood’s First Femme Fatale

by × on June 14, 2014 at 3:35 pm ×

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.

Hollywood’s War with Poland, 1939-1945: A Review
2011 Vol. 3 No. 1 — Spring / Books

Hollywood’s War with Poland, 1939-1945: A Review

by × on March 20, 2011 at 10:00 am ×

While Poland fought a war with both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Hollywood launched its own propaganda war – on the side of Stalin. Piotr Wrobel reviews a remarkable study of some very nasty realpolitik.