“Bau: Artist at War” is based on Joseph’s Bau’s autobiographical novel, “Dear God Have You Ever Gone Hungry”. Bau (Emile Hirsch) was deported from the Krakow Ghetto by the German occupiers of Poland and transported from the Krakow Ghetto with his family to the Plaszow Concentration Camp. Franz Gruen (Yan Tual) is a vicious concentrationContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Bau: Artist at War””
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RKS 2025 Film: “Dear Stranger”: Wreckage and Ruin: Emotional, Architectural and Physical
Kenji (Hidetoshi Nishijima) and Jane (Gwei Lun-Mei) live in a New York City borough with their son Kai (Everest Talde). Kenji and Jane are on the precipice of physical and mental collapse. Kenji is desperate to receive tenure as a professor of architecture specializing in ruins. Jane is a director of a puppet theatre andContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Dear Stranger”: Wreckage and Ruin: Emotional, Architectural and Physical”
RKS Vintage Film: Yugoslav Black Wave Films: “Love Affair: or the case of the Missing Switchboard Operator” (1967)
A complex seemingly discombobulated and incomprehensible movie you might think. Initially a few moments into this film had me both enthralled and somewhat confused. But understanding a director of a film has message(s) in the film to be conveyed to a viewer I was drawn in hook line and sinker determined to discover the message(s).Continue reading “RKS Vintage Film: Yugoslav Black Wave Films: “Love Affair: or the case of the Missing Switchboard Operator” (1967)”
RKS 2025 Film: “Trains”: Dreamlike and Savage
“Trains”, a Polish film directed by Maciej J. Drygas, is more reflective about humanity than trains. Trains can move humanity in adventuresome and joyful spirits but in this film more towards the unspeakable horrors of war on soldiers and civilians alike. 46 film archives were utilized crafting a black and white film without dialogue onlyContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Trains”: Dreamlike and Savage”
RKS 2025 Film: “Filip”: Revenge and Retribution Misogynist Style
The film begins with Polish Jew Filip (Eryk Kulm) beginning his performance in a Warsaw Ghetto cabaret with his fiancé Sara. The audience and performers all wear armbands with a Star of David. Germans enter the cabaret massacring the audience including Sara. Filip escapes and through a Polish manager/black marketeer, Staszeki, of a compulsory labourContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Filip”: Revenge and Retribution Misogynist Style”
RKS 2025 Film: “Green Border”: Trials and Tribulations of Refugees and Migrants Crossing Belarusian Border into Poland
This Polish feature film opens with a Syrian refugee family flying from Turkey into Belarus where a taxi arranged by a family member living in Sweden will transport them to the Polish border where they will “illegally” cross into Poland the assumption being the trip from Poland to Sweden can be made without any difficultyContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Green Border”: Trials and Tribulations of Refugees and Migrants Crossing Belarusian Border into Poland”
RKS 2025 Film: “It’s Not My Film” (To nie moj): Can A Crumbling Relationship Survive The Odyssey?
Young urban Poles Wanda (Zofia Chabiera) and Jan (Marcin Sztabiňski) are suffering from marital blues. It might be summed up by a depressed Wanda at a bar with Jan saying she wants to board an airplane and fly away, get morning drunk on tequila and have someone fuck her over a kitchen sink and itContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “It’s Not My Film” (To nie moj): Can A Crumbling Relationship Survive The Odyssey?”
RKS 2025 Film: “Under the Volcano”: Metaphorical Streams of Lava!
Roma (Roman Lutskyi), his wife Nastia (Anastasiia Karpenko) and Roma’s children the phone obsessed Sofia (Sofia Berezovska) and the cartoon loving Fedir (Fedir Pugachov) are Ukrainians spending a vacation on one of the Canary Islands, Tenerife. Fun and good times and inevitably the departure back to Kiev. But the fun and games abruptly end withContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Under the Volcano”: Metaphorical Streams of Lava!”
RKS 2025 Film: “Live a Little”: Bosom Buddy Interrail On the Road Picture?
One can’t deny the Swedish film “Live a Little” falls within the on the road genre with two mid twenty buddies Laura (Embla Ingelman-Sundberg) and Alex (Aviva Wrede) seeking to tear up Europe on a trip they have been planning for years. But as in the Brit film “How to Have Sex” the surface glossContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Live a Little”: Bosom Buddy Interrail On the Road Picture?”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Loathe Thy Neighbor”
“Loathe Thy Neighbor” is a low budget Canadian indie film shot in Bruce County, Ontario. One can’t deny certain of its comedic elements but it is more of a character study than a comedy. Deeply unhappy characters seldom craft a comedy. City slicker Will Larkfield (Brennan Clost) inherits a farm from his father who hadContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Loathe Thy Neighbor””
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