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	Agnieszka Holland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Agnieszka Holland (born November 28, 1948 in Warsaw, Poland) is a film and TV director and screenplay writer.
		She was born to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, and was raised a Catholic.
		Holland's first major film was Provincial Actors (Aktorzy Prowincjonalni, 1978), a chronicle of the tense backstage relations within a small town theater company that served as a metaphor for Poland's contemporary political situation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agnieszka_Holland (598 words)

	Holland (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Holland can refer to many different things, though primarily to Holland, a former county and region in the Netherlands, now divided into two provinces; North Holland and South Holland.
		In English, Holland is often colloquially used as synonym of The Netherlands (and during 1806-1810 it was actually named Kingdom of Holland).
		Dexter Holland, singer and guitarist of the American punk band The Offspring.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holland_(disambiguation) (187 words)

	Heinemann Books: Authors
		Agnieszka Holland was born in Warsaw in 1948, shortly after Stalin had replaced Hitler in Poland.
		Agnieszka began to draw and write plays when she was a sickly young girl.
		Agnieszka rebuilt her career in Paris by translating movies and writing for French T.V. In 1985 she completed her film Angry Harvest, which was nominated for an Academy Award.
	books.heinemann.com /authors/183.aspx (363 words)

	NEWS \| MAGAZINE \| VOLUME 26-3 SEPTEMBER 2001
		Holland's "little Kafka story," as she calls it, occurred in 1970, when she was followed for several months, finally arrested without a charge, put in solitary confinement for two weeks, interrogated for seven straight hours and returned to solitary for another month before she was released.
		Holland said that she was secretly glad when stars passed on the Mikal role and it reverted to Ribisi who had played the medic in Saving Private Ryan.
		Holland, who storyboards all of her films, may have lost a close collaborator for years.
	www.dga.org /news/v26_3/feat_aggieholland.php3 (2671 words)

	Kinoeye \| Agnieszka Holland's Bittere Ernte (Angry Harvest, 1984)
		The cinema of Agnieszka Holland is profoundly marked by a dynamics based on being both a Polish director and a director who is and is not at home anywhere, as she herself puts it, as well as on Holland's working in radically different cinematic environments and various countries.
		Holland's model of global and cosmopolitan cinema escapes the trap of "global" being a synonym for the execution of pre-given American mass culture models in local terms, avoids the homogenizing push of Hollywood and is instead based on active interaction with existent local and national cinema cultures and film-makers.
		Holland's scene where the otherwise sexually repressed and now drunken Wolny insults and rapes the wooden Rosa, and then approaches her apologetically, may appear as a direct quote, through the use of the same actress, of Fassbinder's scene where the drunken stationmaster rapes his own wife Hanna, telling her "You are my property...
	www.kinoeye.org /04/05/crnkovic05_no2.php (3778 words)

	Agnieszka Holland - (www.perfectnet.com/holland/) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Holland might still be toiling in the shadows, however, were it not for the sensational publicity provided by her censors and detractors.
		Holland’s early movies--relentlessly gray depictions of despair and moral disintegration--would shock audiences used to the lush sensuality of Europa, Europa.
		Holland, who bristles when questioned about her personal life ("Darling," she says acidly, "I have no need for confession"), does not readily talk about Adamik, who remained in Poland and is now a successful television producer.
	www.perfectnet.com /holland/reviews2.cfm?reviewID=35 (2658 words)

	RES 295 Europa, Europa
		Unable to attend film school in Poland due to her Jewish heritage, Holland attended the Prague Film Academy (FAMU), studying at the height of the Czechoslovak New Wave and witnessing the Prague Spring of 1968.
		In addition to directing, Holland is a superb screenwriter, writing for many of her own features as well as with Wajda on his 1982 film, Danton, and writing the screenplay for Krysztof Kieslowski's Blue (1993) from his Trois Coleurs series.
		Holland now divides her time between Europe and the United States, with two films currently in production, Golden Dreams in the US and Julia Walking Home, a co-production between Canada, Germany, and Poland.
	web.grinnell.edu /courses/rees/ceerp/Holland.html (382 words)

	Agnieszka Holland -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Agnieszka Holland (born November 28, 1948 in (The capital and largest city of Poland; located in central Poland) Warsaw, (A republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II) Poland) is a film and TV director and screenplay writer.
		A friend of the great Polish writer and director, (Polish filmmaker who made ten films based on he ten commandments (1941-1996)) Krzysztof Kieslowski, she collaborated on the screeplay for his film, (additional info and facts about Three Colors: Blue) Three Colors: Blue.
		Like Kieslowski, in her films Holland frequently examines issues of (Loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person) faith.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Ag/Agnieszka_Holland.htm (343 words)

	Agnieszka Holland (Washington Square)
		Holland, 48, the renowned auteur of such films as "Europa, Europa" and "The Secret Garden," said she did not figure Leigh for the restrained role of Catherine, but was convinced by meeting her in person for the first time.
		I think the beauty of the character is that she stays what she was in the beginning, except that she knows who she is, and she accepts the truth about herself and other people.
		Holland managed to keep her integrity as an artist despite growing up in the totalitarian regime of communist Poland.
	www.industrycentral.net /director_interviews/AGHO01.HTM (735 words)

	Salon \| "Washington Square"
		Holland's version is more sober and less fun, truer to the complexity of James' characters but missing the courtly irony of the author's voice.
		Holland chooses not to dot every "i," which provides us with a chance to mull over the exact meaning of Catherine's final transformation.
		Holland's movie is mysterious, but not bewildering, as Jane Campion's crude adaptation of "The Portrait of a Lady" proved to be last year.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/1997/10/10wash.html (856 words)

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		Holland, one of Europe’s most innovative female filmmakers: “This is an opportunity for me to stretch my creativity in other mediums, and explore the commercial spot world.
		Holland’s most recent project was for Jerry Bruckheimer’s highly acclaimed CBS drama Cold Case that aired on January 11th, 2004.
		Holland has taken on a broad range of projects during her career.
	www.mvwire.com /dynamic/article_view.asp?AID=10605 (498 words)

	BC News
		Agnieszka Holland, acclaimed Polish director of such films as The Secret Garden (1993), Europa, Europa (1990) and the forthcoming Copying Beethoven (2006), will be the Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence at Brooklyn College for the week of November 14 through 18.
		Holland, born in 1948, is the daughter of a Catholic mother and a Jewish father who died in 1961 under mysterious circumstances while in the custody of the Polish secret police.
		Holland will teach a master class in directing, an acting workshop, and participate in numerous discussions and classroom sessions about filmmaking, writing for the screen, women in film, anti-Semitism, and the treatment of the Holocaust in film.
	www.brooklyn.cuny.edu /bc/spotlite/news/index.php?link=101905 (837 words)

	Artless Heiress - Jennifer Jason Leigh in Agnieszka Holland's Washington Square. By David Edelstein
		In part this is the fault of the director, Agnieszka Holland.
		Holland's tone is detached to the point of having no discernible point of view.
		Holland's one innovation is in her handling of Townsend.
	www.slate.com /id/3234 (1290 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Agnieszka Holland : Biography
		Holland then directed stage plays and TV movies, later drawing upon her theatrical experience to create her 1978 feature Aktorzy Prowincjonalni, which was outwardly a chronicle of the tense backstage relations within a small town theater company but was actually a metaphor for Poland's political situation.
		Holland followed it up with another tract on the nature of assumed identity with Olivier, Olivier (1992), which was not as well received.
		In addition to directing, Holland also occasionally works on screenplays; some of her most notable work has been on Wajda's Danton (1982) and Krzysztof Kieslowski's initial entry in his "Trois Coleurs" series, Blue (1993).
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/83589/bio.jhtml (384 words)

	Agnieszka Holland on The Third Miracle--The Lybarger Links Interview
		Holland recalls, “It was the paradox of To Kill a Priest that (Harris) was more charismatic than the priest.
		She was arrested for participating in the anti-Communist protests around Czechoslovakia in 1968, and she lived in exile from Poland after 1981 because of her involvement in the Solidarity movement.
		Holland’s struggles have been as publicized as her movies, but she demonstrates little bitterness.
	www.tipjar.com /dan/thethirdmiracle.htm (916 words)

	CinemaSpeak.Com - Julie Walking Home
		Holland crams 2 different films into one, and the halves conflict in just about every way conceivable.
		Holland's filmmaking talents are easily recognized amidst the chaos and until "the scene of no return" (when the mail-order bride tells Julie about Alexi), this film hits on all cylinders.
		In the end, Holland seems wholly unaware of her film's biggest strengths and regrettably has made a movie that can be best described as confused melodrama.
	www.cinemaspeak.com /Reviews/jwh.html (632 words)

	phoenixnewtimes.com \| \| Sidebar \| Ms. Holland's Opuses \| 2000-02-17
		Holland left Poland in 1981 for what she thought would be a trip of several weeks, but stayed away when martial law was declared.
		The daughter of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother (both nonpracticing), Holland became a Catholic in secret at the age of 11, but drifted away from the church a few years later, in part because of the anti-Semitism of many Polish priests of the time.
		Then Holland sighs, and gives vent to her political disenchantment.
	www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/2000-02-17/sidebar2.html (774 words)

	Central Europe Review - Film: Agnieszka Holland's Bittere Ernte
		Holland refuses to romanticise the Holocaust and creates a disturbing vision of the motives which led people to shelter escaping Jews.
		Holland, however, depicts a vast third category of people and challenges our notions of how many people really fit the fl and white stereotypes which post-war culture has been so keen on propagating.
		Equally doubtless is the fact that in many cases Holland's picture is just as accurate and nobody can now really say which was the more prevalent motivating factor.
	www.ce-review.org /kinoeye/kinoeye22old2.html (1234 words)

	Polish Directors - Agnieszka Holland
		The film that took America by storm: Agnieszka Holland's powerful, moving story of a courageous German-Jewish teenager who survived World War II by concealing his identity and living as a Nazi during seven harrowing years through three countries.
		Agnieszka Holland's haunting adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1909 classic about an orphaned young girl (Kate Maberly) dispatched to her uncle's remote English estate.
		Holland beautifully captures the painful social isolation of childhood.
	www.multilingualbooks.com /tlstore/foreignvids-polish-holland.html (715 words)

	Intelliflix: Rent The Healer on DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Julie (Miranda Otto) is the mother of the unfortunate child, who meets extreme resistance from her husband and friends when she turns to a healer to help her sick infant.
		Throw into this the fact that Julie is on the rebound from her marriage and has been critical of religion, and the complex emotions with which she is dealing seem rather overwhelming.
		Indeed, Otto's performance is the centerpiece of this film, but the script, by Holland along with Roman Gren and Arlene Sarner puts her through too much in the last act.
	www.intelliflix.com /movie_view.dvd?id=181388 (276 words)

	Olivier Oliver
		Tactfully, Holland declined to pursue these in her powerful Europa Europa, which passes over the mental and spiritual costs for Perel, not only of denying his Jewishness for survival`s sake, but of masquerading as one of the killers committed to destroying Jewry.
		Holland is analytical; she has no interest whatsoever in providing a comic strip of victims and villains.
		For Holland uses time-lapse photography to capture a bursting into the sunlight of a dormant garden`s rebirth—stuff I remember from school science class films, here given fresh meaning and moral depth, to create one of the most moving passages in all of cinema.
	www.fortunecity.co.uk /cinerama/chick/268/essays/DG_Olivier_Olivier.html (2876 words)

	Cinema Stardust: Total Eclipse directed by Agnieszka Holland
		The photography, as I’ve come to expect from director Agnieszka Holland (The Secret Garden; Olivier, Olivier; Europa, Europa) is stunning, particularly the shots of Charleville, where Rimbaud’s family lives on a farm.
		Holland loves blood, but not as though you’d know it: the few instances where you see blood in this film it’s used strictly as punctuation for the symmetrical balance of their cruelty for each other, or else it’s photographed just to show what the concept of flow mechanics can do to red on white.
		I’m glad the film chose to not end with the severing of their relationship, but to follow Rimbaud to Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) and to the end of his life, to fully illustrate that his was a spirit who was forever seeking the outer edges of experience.
	www.towerofbabel.com /sections/film/cinemastardust/eclipse.htm (1149 words)

	The religion of director Agnieszka Holland
		Holland tries to have the variouis characters represent the different faces of the church--political, pastoral, economic, spiritual.
		Holland also included some of her own life in the characters.
		It is not clear, however, what the third miracle is. Maybe it is the miracle of faith itself--a faith that is reborn in Frank and a faith that will be strengthened in moviegoers as well.
	www.adherents.com /people/ph/Agnieszka_Holland.html (688 words)

	The Third Miracle (1999)
		Holland brings to play a distinctive Euro stylism — a composed naturalism of frame, a lack of dramatic affectation and the dour quietude of East European cinema.
		It’s no different to the way Holland had made all her other films (although when Holland contrasts the manneredness of her film with the bleakness of Chicago’s ghetto suburbs - even if they are all filmed in Toronto - the effect is quite shocking).
		In the last half the script maneuvers itself to arrive at the uniquely contrary position of having a priest who has lost his faith fighting to defend the existence of a miracle pitted against an archbishop who does believe in miracles but is determined to vehemently deny the existence of this miracle.
	www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/3rdmiracle.htm (727 words)

	The Third Miracle: The Filmmakers: AGNIESZKA HOLLAND (Director)
		Agnieszka Holland first gained notoriety in her native country as part of the Polish New Wave of filmmakers.
		Holland's next film, Europa, Europa, has become a wartime classic, the harrowing yet humor-tinged story of a Jewish boy drafted into Hitler's army.
		This was followed by the critically acclaimed French film Oliver, Olivier, the eerie tale of a disappeared child who returns to his family an entirely different person; and the family classic The Secret Garden, based on the beloved Francis Hodgson Burnett novel.
	www.sonyclassics.com /thethirdmiracle/thefilmmakers.html (303 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Interview - Agnieszka Holland
		Kieslowski, who died of heart failure in 1996 at the age of 55, collaborated with Agnieszka Holland on two of the scripts for what would be his last completed project, the Trois Coleurs trilogy (Blue, White, Red).
		Like Kieslowski himself, a native of Warsaw, Poland, Holland produced some of her most notable work in France.
		To honor The Decalogue's belated stateside release, Holland recently spoke with Facets Video's Milos Stehlik about the project and her dear friendship with the late Kieslowski.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/interview.asp?ctr=608864 (1426 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of Agnieszka Holland's The Third Miracle
		Frank's own wavering faith becomes an issue in the hearing, but so too does the Archbishop's personal unwillingness to grant the possibility that an uncultured American immigrant woman could be a vessel of God.
		Director Agnieskia Holland is not quite at top form here, at least not at the peak level she reached in Europa, Europa and The Secret Garden, but she never stoops to condescend to this material, which is pretty unusual in the modern cinema.
		There are some characterizations that are a tad too hackneyed and some of the shots at the Catholic Church are too easy, too cheap, to be taken seriously; but even the villains, all clerics, of the piece ultimately prove to have more complex motivations than we first believe.
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.moviedetail/movie_id/47 (1377 words)

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