Well into his eighth decade, and his sixth of directing features, polish veteran. Jerzy skolimowski wants to talk about the ending of 11 minutes, his new movie. Follow their account to see all their photos and videos. Uk one sheet for the shout jerzy skolimowski, uk, 1978one of the greatest but perhaps less heralded of british actors, sir alan bates 19342003 is being deservedly feted over the next week at the quad cinema in new york with the retrospective series alan bates. Henryk skolimowski 4 may 1930 6 april 2018 is a polish philosopher. This is a book of sad naivete and alarming shortsightedness.
An interview with jerzy skolimowski by paul risker. Apr 07, 2016 but skolimowskis erratic career has often trucked in willful, beautiful ambiguities take 1978s the shout, and 11 minutes which does not actually chronicle an elevenminute span. So its dispiriting to report that his first feature in five years, 11 minutes, is an empty feat of technical virtuosity driven by a bleakly obvious vision of. As one of the premier rare book sites on the internet, alibris has thousands of rare books, first editions, and signed books available. Sep 11, 2015 veteran polish director jerzy skolimowski kicked things off in the main competition with 11 minutes, a thriller promising the same event from multiple viewpoints. Sep 09, 2015 tiziana vox recensisce 11 minutes di jerzy skolimowski, in concorso alla 72ma edizione della mostra del cinema di venezia. The film is eleven minutes, but i felt that there is a necessity of giving just a little information on the key characters. Before the opening scene of 11 minutes, the idea of the film is illustrated in a precredits sequence. Jerzy skolimowski is a polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. Skolimowskis career is defined by a healthy disregard for conventional filmmaking. These are just a few of the seemingly disparate tableaux and characters in this strange collection of non sequiturs from veteran polish director jerzy skolimowski. The screening of jerzy skolimowskis seventeenth feature 11 minutes 2015 at the 2016 melbourne international film festival, reminded me of a provocation is surrealism a cure for film criticism. Skolimowski has directed more than twenty movies since 1960.
Most recently he showed that his intuitive mastery of the medium remained as keenly honed as ever with 11 minutes 2015, an essay in chance and coincidence in which half a dozen mostly separate narratives all happening in the same 11minute timeframe suddenly converge to devastating effect at the spectacular climax. May 5, 1938, lodz, poland filmography bibliography web resources eyes wide open jerzy skolimowski has said that he makes films to please himself. Shop movies directed by jerzy skolimowski on dvd, vhs, and rare video formats at alibris. Henryk skolimowski author of the participatory mind. With richard dormer, paulina chapko, wojciech mecwaldowski, andrzej chyra. We combine bloombergs global leadership in business and financial news and data, with quintillion medias deep expertise in the indian market and digital news delivery, to provide high quality business news, insights and trends for indias sophisticated audiences. Jerzy skolimowskis film yields an illusion of simultaneous forward motion for events that are both extremely lucid and inscrutable.
He completed technical studies, musicology and philosophy in warsaw. Composed of intricatelyedited vignettes featuring 11 stories, with the shards of each story adding to approximately 11 minutes, the film is a virtuosic orchestration of close shaves and chance encounters, building to an operatic moment of bravura nihilism. Mike figgiss formal experimentations appear to be a significant inspiration for skolimowski, and. Skolimowskis sprawling and irrational 11 minutes crashes. Set under the titular 11minute period, the films pitfalls lie. Tiziana vox recensisce 11 minutes di jerzy skolimowski, in concorso alla 72ma edizione della mostra del cinema di venezia. Jerzy skolimowskis 11 minutes belongs to the tradition of puzzle. The hectic opening montage, made up of shots from telephones, laptops or security cameras, sets the tone for a mosaic narrative that does not slow down.
In the span of eleven tense minutes, a whirlwind of interlocking tales of life in the surveillance age unfold in this stylish, propulsive thriller from acclaimed director jerzy skolimowski deep end, essential killing. After the engrossing essential killing 2010, jerzy skolimowski, one of polish cinemas most iconic figures, returns with a thrilling picture 11 minutes. So i made like a four minute introduction, a glimpse of something that was going on between husband and wife, was going on with the film director, was going on with the hot dog seller who, as we learn, is. Jerzy skolimowskis 11 minutes 2015 senses of cinema. Veteran polish director jerzy skolimowski kicked things off in the main competition with 11 minutes, a thriller promising the same event from multiple viewpoints. The bold and innovative concept of the film takes the viewer on an 81minute cinematic journey following 11 minutes of the lives of numerous protagonists whose paths cross in an. By this point in his career, the seventysevenyearold polish filmmaker is no stranger to the beginnings of another narrative journey. For those familiar with the work of jerzy skolimowski which certainly applies to many visitors to iffr, as the festival shows virtually all his films 11 minutes takes some getting used to. Sep 09, 2015 so its dispiriting to report that his first feature in five years, 11 minutes, is an empty feat of technical virtuosity driven by a bleakly obvious vision of the murky morality of the post9 11. Konrad skolimowski has 437 posts on their instagram profile.
In a penthouse apartment, a film director interviews a. Director jerzy skolimowskis deep end 1970 starring john moulderbrown and jane asher screens sunday, november 3rd at webster universitys moor auditorium470 e lockwood aveat 7. But skolimowskis erratic career has often trucked in willful, beautiful ambiguities take 1978s the shout, and 11 minutes which does. Most recently he showed that his intuitive mastery of the medium remained as keenly honed as ever with 11 minutes 2015, an essay in chance and coincidence in which half a dozen mostly separate narratives all happening in the same 11 minute timeframe suddenly converge to devastating effect at the spectacular climax. Essential killing is a 2010 polish survival political thriller film cowritten and directed by jerzy skolimowski and starring vincent gallo and emmanuelle seigner. Chinese matinee idol stars in the fantasy the monkey king 3 china, 2018, not rated, with subtitles and richard dormer stars in jerzy skolimowskis 11 minutes. Skolimowski s career is defined by a healthy disregard for conventional filmmaking. J erzy skolimowskis 11 minutes belongs to the tradition of puzzle thriller that was briefly in vogue in the late 1990s and early 2000s, which offered a swath of narratives to the audience, requiring them to discern a common thread that would be confirmed at the climax. In spite of the variety of stories that characterize his oeuvre, each film. Jerzy skolimoskis 11 minutes runs about 80 minutes but takes place, as the title suggests, over a mere 11minute span. In honour of the directors latest work, barbican cinema will host a special retrospective of three rarely screened classic skolimowski titles.
Skolimowski cowrote knife in the water, polanskis great first feature. Henryk skolimowski 4 may 1930 in warsaw 6 april 2018 in warsaw was a polish philosopher. Featuring an impressive ensemble cast, 11 minutes succeeds in being an inventive metaphor for our modern hectic lives, driven by blind chance. Jerzy skolimowski rysopis walkower bariera rece do gory 5.
Henryk skolimowski simple english wikipedia, the free. Jerzy skolimowski simple english wikipedia, the free. A graduate of the prestigious national film school in lodz, skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 debut oko wykol the menacing eye. A sleazy filmmaker richard dormer invites an inexperienced actress paulina chapko to a castingcouch audition in this ensemble drama from director jerzy skolimowski, which views an 11minute span of time from the perspective of various people in warsaw. From the beginning, we know we are in the hands of an unhinged master. Celebrating this years polish film festival kinoteka, alex fitch talks to oscar winning producer jeremy thomas and director jerzy skolimowski about the latters work on such films as the shout, essential killing, and his latest movie 11 minutes. Written and directed by jerzy skolimowski, 11 minutes is frequently bewildering, as characters stories are intercut with apparently irrelevant storylines with little or no effort made to. In a penthouse apartment, a film director interviews a beautiful young. In a city in warsaw, a sleazy film director auditions a married actress in a hotel room. Veteran director jerzy skolimowski returns to his native poland for 11 minutes, a fragmented thriller concerned with chance and cosmic timing. Normally its customary to omit such spoilerific chatter from a film interview, but here we can make an exception. At first glance, 11 minutes has little in common with that film, or with four nights with anna, mr. Bloomberg quint is a multiplatform, indian business and financial news company.
A facebook invite for the film can be found here in the late 60s and early 70s, it looked like skolimowski might pick up where jeanluc godard left. Jerzy skolimowski rysopis walkower bariera rece do gory. Indeed, the city symphony subgenre is an obvious reference point here, as the movie. Sep 25, 2015 fne asked polish director jerzy skolimowski about the premiere of his new film 11 minutes in venice and the importance of backing from the polish film institute for the production. A sleazy filmmaker richard dormer invites an inexperienced actress paulina chapko to a castingcouch audition in this ensemble drama from director jerzy skolimowski, which views an 11 minute span of time from the perspective of various people in warsaw.
An emperors new clothes of technical virtuosity, veteran polish director jerzy skolimowskis latest is a frenetic, kinetic, but largely insipid speed through the lives of ostensibly random people in modern day warsaw. A civilian arab man is captured in the desert by united states forces after attacking three soldiers in afghanistan, and is soon tortured and brutalized in a secret detention center. Apr 08, 2016 at first glance, 11 minutes has little in common with that film, or with four nights with anna, mr. Henryk skolimowski is the author of the participatory mind 4.