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Saturday, 26 September 2015

Gdynia Film Festival 2015 coverage



My full coverage of Gdynia Film Festival 2015 is up at PopMatters. You can read it at the links below.

Festival Review + 10 Years of Emotions

11 Minutes

New World + Strange Heaven + The Here After

Into the Spirale + Baby Bump

Panie Dulskie + These Daughters of Mine

Body/Ciało + Life Must Go On 

New Polish Cinema Overview + Karbala
Posted by Alex Ramon at 9/26/2015 04:43:00 am No comments:
Labels: 11 Minutes, Gdynia Film Festival 2015, Jerzy Skolimowski, Karbala, PopMatters
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Alex Ramon is a teacher and critic from London, UK, who is currently based in Łódź, Poland. He has written about film for Sight and Sound, BFI, and Film International, about film and music for PopMatters, and about theatre for British Theatre Guide and The Reviews Hub. He's interviewed Agnieszka Holland, François Ozon, Tori Amos, Samuel Adamson, Andrzej Chyra, Małgorzata Szumowska, Mark Umbers, and June Tabor (among others) and is the author of the book Liminal Spaces: The Double Art of Carol Shields. Email: lookcloser1@yahoo.co.uk Twitter: @BoycottTrends
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Favourites: By Year

Films 2018

1. Fugue (Smoczynska)
2. Wildlife (Dano)
3. Lean on Pete (Haigh)
4. Peterloo (Leigh)
5. Roma (Cuaron)
6. The Chambermaid (Aviles)
7. Tully (Reitman)
8. Djon Africa (Guerra/Reis)
9. Apostasy (Kokotajlo)
10. Nancy (Choe)
11. Journey to a Mother's Room (Rico)
12. Joy (Motezai)
13. Support the Girls (Bujalski)
14. Faces Places (Varda/JR)
15. Sorry Angel (Honoré)
16. Sauvage (Vidal-Naquet)
17. Becoming Astrid (Christensen)
18. Monument (Szelc)
19. Candelaria (Hendrix)
20. Las Herederas (Martinessi)


Theatre 2018

1. The Nether (Otchłań) (Jaracz)
2. The Meeting (Chichester Festival Theatre)
3. Utility (Orange Tree)
4. Caroline, or Change (Hampstead)
5. Fun Home (Young Vic)
6. Ich Czworo (Four of Us) (Jaracz)
7. Richard II (Almeida)
8. Operetka (Jaracz)
9. Nine Night (NT)
10. Hadestown (NT)

Music 2018

1. Sinners Got Soul Too (Peyton)
2. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (Arctic Monkeys)
3. Negative Capability (Marianne Faithfull)
4. Whistle Down the Wind (Joan Baez)
5. Float Like A Butterfly (Barb Jungr/John McDaniel)
6. Lost Souls (Loreena McKennitt)
7. My Indigo (My Indigo)
8. Dirty Computer (Janelle Monae)
9. American Utopia (David Byrne)
10. High As Hope (Florence and the Machine)




Films 2017

1. A Ciambra (Carpignano)
2.-3. Frantz/L'amant double (Ozon)
4. Lost in Paris (Gordon/Abel)
5. God's Own Country (Francis Lee)
6. A Ghost Story (David Lowery)
7. Maudie (Walsh)
8. mother! (Aronofsky)
9. Manifesto (Rosefelft)
10. Summer 1993 (Simon)
11. Chavela (Gund/Kyi)
12. My Happy Family (Ekvtimishvili/Gross)
13. A Quiet Passion (Davies)
14. Insyriated (Van Leeuw)
15. Little Men (Ira Sachs)



Theatre 2017

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Pinter Theatre)
2. Mother Courage and her Children (Teatr Narodowy, Warsaw)
3. The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Merton Art Space)
4. Romantics Anonymous (Sam Wanamaker)
5. JOAN (Ovalhouse)
6. An Octoroon (Orange Tree)
7. Twelfth Night (NT; Globe)
8. Czarownice z Salem (Teatr Jarazca, Lodz)
9. Winter Solstice (Orange Tree)
10. The Glass Menagerie (Duke of York's)



Films 2016

1. Paterson (Jarmusch)
2. The Last Family (Matuszynski)
3. Things to Come (Hansen-Love)
4. Lemonade (Beyonce, et al)
5. Theo and Hugo (Duscatel/Matineau)
6. Summertime (Corsini)
7. Hissein Habre: A Chadian Tragedy (Haroun)
8. Aquarius (Filh0)
9. The BFG (Spielberg)
10. Staying Vertical (Guiraudie)


Theatre 2016

1. Les Blancs (NT)
2. The Maids (Trafalgar Studios)
3. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Globe)
4. Richard III (Almeida)
5. The Rolling Stone (Orange Tree)
6.The Flick (NT)
7. King Lear (Old Vic)
8. Bitches (Finborough)
9. Dogville (Nowy Teatr, Lodz)
10. After October (Finborough)


Music 2016

1. Lemonade (Beyonce)
2. Stranger to Stranger (Paul Simon)
3. Upcetera (Jim Moray)
4. The Colour in Anything (James Blake)
5. Lodestar (Shirley Collins)
6. Blond (Frank Ocean)
7. A Seat at the Table (Solange)
8. Boys for Pele, 20th Anniversary Reissue (Tori Amos)
9. Blackstar (David Bowie)
10. Come Together: Songs of The Beatles (Barb Jungr/John McDaniel)



Films 2015

1. Sunset Song (Davies)
2. 11 Minutes (Skolimowski)
3. Mountains May Depart (Zhangke)
4. James White (Josh Mond)
5. Mediterranea (Carpignano)
6. Inherent Vice (Anderson)
7. A Bigger Splash (Guadagnino)
8. Moje Corki Krowy (These Daughters of Mine) (Debska)
9.Regarding Susan Sontag (Kates)
10. Corki Dancingu/ The Lure (Smoczynska)
11. They Will Have To Kill Us First: Malian Music in Exile (Schwartz)
12. An (Kawase)
13. Love Is Strange (Sachs)
14. Body/Cialo (Szumowska)
15. The Pearl Button (Guzman)


Music 2015


1. The Light Princess (OCR)
2. The Trackless Woods (Iris DeMent)
3. Skeleton Crew (Madisen Ward & the Mama Bear)
4. Music Complete (New Order)
5. Carrie & Lowell (Sufjan Stevens)
6. The Rose of Roscrae (Tom Russell)
7. Joy of Living: A Tribute to Ewan MacColl (Various)
8. The Other Side of Desire (Rickie Lee Jones)
9. Honeymoon (Lana del Rey)
10. Leonard Cohen: Zaspiewany (Various)
Bonus: Made in Dagenham (OCR)



Films 2014

1. The Duke of Burgundy (Strickland)
2. Exhibition (Hogg)
3. Radiator (Browne)
4. Winter Sleep (Ceylan)
5. The Immigrant (Gray)
6. Mr. Turner (Leigh)
7. Mommy (Dolan)
8. Night Bus (Baker)
9. Girlhood (Sciamma)
10. Fotograf (Krzystek)



Music 2014



1. Morning Phase (Beck)

2. Give My Love To London (Marianne Faithfull)
3. Unrepentant Geraldines (Tori Amos)
4.From Scotland With Love (King Creosote)

5. This Is All Yours (alt-J)
6. So Long, See You Tomorrow (Bombay Bicycle Club)
7. World Peace is None of Your Business (Morrissey)
8. O Love (Ernest Troost)
9. Salad Days (Mac DeMarco)
10. The Voyager (Jenny Lewis)


Theatre 2014


1.Mr. Burns (Almeida)
2. Festival (Orange Tree)

3. Rachel (Finborough)
4. Made in Dagenham (Adelphi)
5. My Night With Reg (Donmar)
6. East is East (Trafalgar Studios)

7. A View from The Bridge (Young Vic)
8. The Merchant of Venice (Almeida)
9. The Boss of it All (Soho)
10. Our Town (Almeida)










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