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Intimations : the cinema of Wojciech Has / Annette Insdorf.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.H3697 I57 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Insdorf, Annette, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Has, Wojciech J. (Wojciech Jerzy), 1925-2000--Criticism and interpretation.
- Has, Wojciech J.
- Has, Wojciech J. (Wojciech Jerzy), 1925-2000.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Poland--Biography.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Motion pictures.
- History.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Poland.
- Motion pictures--Poland--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 147 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- In this first study in English of a Polish master of world cinema, Annette Insdorf explores Wojciech Has's thirteen feature films with deep insight. Has made disparate but formally striking movies infused with European strains of existentialism and the avant-garde. Some of them have developed a cult following, notably The Saragossa Manuscript, a favorite film of the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, which has been praised by directors Luis Buñuel, Francis Ford Coppola, and Roman Polanski. Has's diverse and innovative filmography also includes The Hourglass Sanatorium, a vividly surreal depiction of Hassidic life in Poland between the world wars; The Noose, a stark poetic drama about a lucid alcoholic who knows he will not be able to kick the habit; and How to Be Loved, in which an actress remembers her wartime past. With many of Has's films being restored and rereleased, new generations of film lovers are discovering his artistic genius. Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has is a definitive guide. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The noose (Petla, 1957)
- Farewells (Pozegnania, 1958)
- One room tenants (Wspolny pokoj, 1960)
- Partings (Rozstanie, 1961)
- Gold dreams (Zloto, 1962)
- How to be loved (Jak byc kochana, 1963)
- The Saragossa manuscript (Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie, 1965)
- Codes (Szyfry, 1966)
- The doll (Lalka, 1968)
- The Hourglass sanatorium (Sanatorium pod klepsydra, 1973)
- An uneventful story (Nieciekawa historia, 1983)
- Write and fight (Pismak, 1985)
- Memoirs of a sinner (Osobisty pamietnik grzesznika przez niego samego spisany, 1986)
- The fabulous journey of Balthazar Kober (Niezwykla podroz Baltazara Kobera, 1988)
- Epilogue: Lodz film school
- Appendix: Early shorts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780810135055
- 0810135051
- 9780810135048
- 0810135043
- OCLC:
- 958781167
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