In Search of a (Reluctant) Feminist: Women in Polish Cinema by Ewa Mazierska and Elzbieta Ostrowska Renata Murawska August 2007 Book Reviews With the defiance expected in the greatest of social causes, Polish female filmmakers have insisted for years that they do not make women’s cinema. Their fierce and widespread rebuffs of any accusations of even...
A View from the 41st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Renata Murawska November 2006 Festival Reports 30 June – 8 July, 2006 Karlovy Vary consists of three worlds that coexist hand in hand, blissfully unaware of one another. One is that of luxurious spas, boutique hotels and luscious shops filled with Bo...
Three Flavours of Polish Films’ Rejuvenation and Stability: The 30th Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia Renata Murawska February 2006 Festival Reports September 12–17, 2005 The flavour of the Polish Feature Film Festival in the coastal Gdynia is defined not only by the screened films, but also by the space in which for a brief moment the film industry ...
“Why Not Have Our Own World?” Interview with Andrzej Wajda Renata Murawska July 2005 Conversations with Filmmakers In this wide-ranging interview the revered elder statesman of Polish cinema chronicles the fate of his nation's cinema over the course of his country's transition from communism to capitalism.
New Polish Cinema: The 29th Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia Renata Murawska February 2005 Festival Reports September 13–18, 2004 Define Polish films? Angst-ridden pictures of a dark world in which any colour other than grey is out of place. Judging from these films, Poles are a morbid people, whose life is ...
Going Far for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference Renata Murawska May 2003 Festival Reports Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (SCMS) Minneapolis, Minnesota 6-9 March 2003 It was possible to set the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in the birthplace of the Coen bro...