top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Cinema was my rite of passage."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't go to the cinema much."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking."
Money
"On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre."
Cinema
"In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one."
Motivational
"In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries."
Time
"Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make."
Media
"One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding."
Change
"Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that."
Film
"However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared."
Old
"Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre."
Media
"When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it."
Perception
bottom of page