Title: Krzysztof Kieślowski : interviews /
Authors: Kieślowski, Krzysztof, 1941-1996; Bernard, Renata,; Woodward, Steven, 1964-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Kieślowski, Krzysztof, Interviews.; Kieślowski, Krzysztof,; Motion picture producers and directors Poland Interviews.; PERFORMING ARTS Individual Director (see also BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Entertainment & Performing Arts); PERFORMING ARTS Film & Video Direction & Production.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Entertainment & Performing Arts.; Motion picture producers and directors; Poland
Abstract: "Krzysztof Kieslowski's untimely death came at the height of his career, after his Three Colors trilogy of films garnered international acclaim (and an Oscar nomination), and he had been proclaimed Europe's most important filmmaker by many critics. Born in 1941, he was only fifty-four years old when he died. Kieslowski himself tried to tell the story of his life and career in the 1993 book Kieslowski on Kieslowski. This collection, by contrast, reveals the shifting voice of a filmmaker who was initially optimistic about his social and cultural role, then felt himself buffeted by the turbulent politics and events of the People's Republic of Poland. As described in the chronology in this book, he found himself subject to the "economic censorship" of post-Communist filmmaking. How Kieslowski responded at each moment of his life, what he tried to achieve with each of his films, is finely detailed in thirty-five selections. These pieces bring together his thesis from the famous Lodz film school, a manifesto written just before the dark days of martial law in Poland, diary entries from the first time he was working outside Poland, and numerous rare interviews from Polish-, French-, and English-language sources"--
Contents: The Dramaturgy of the Real / Krzysztof Kieslowski -16 or 35?/ski 1970 -- A Film about the Working Class / pel/1971 -- Interview Not for Print / Andrzej Kolodynski/1973 -- Conversation with the Laureate / Zygmunt Kaluzynski and Marian Turski/1976 -- Interview with Krzysztof Kieslowski / Ginette Gervais/1979 -- First Meetings with Krzysztof Kieslowski / Jacques Demeure/1980 -- In Depth Rather than Breadth / Krzysztof Kieslowski/1981 -- About Me, about You, about Everyone / Maria Marszalek/1987 -- Without Me / Bozena Janicka/1988 -- On A Short Film about Killing / Hubert Niogret/1988 -- The Key Thing Is to Make a Believable Film / Antoine Tixeront/1988 -- Weapon of Despair / Stanislaw Latek and Marie-Claude Loiselle/1989 -- Interview with Krzysztof Kieslowski / Steve Goldman/1989 -- A Normal Moment / Tadeusz Sobolewski/1990 -- Diary: 1989-1990 (1) / Krzysztof Kieslowski/1989-90 -- Diary: 1989-1990 (2) / Krzysztof Kieslowski/1989-90 --^