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	Jan Jakub Kolski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kolski himself encourages this description by film critics, for example, he admitted on several occasions that Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Hundred Years of Solitude was one of his favourite books and expressed a desire to make a film based on it (Wojcik, 1994: 10).
		The "unnatural" or "mysterious" in Kolski's films has two principal meanings; the first refers to miraclulous events, people retaining god-like power, such as the ability, which Jancio Wodnik possesses, to influence the flow of water, or to attract metals with ones body, which is the case of the title character in Magneto.
		Accordingly, Kolski's narratives are full of situations and images of failed seriousness on the part of their characters, of peasants' ambitions which do not match their possibilities.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /film/journal/articles/jan_jakub_kolski.htm (8058 words)

	Polish culture: JAN JAKUB KOLSKI
		Jan Jakub Kolski’s great grandmother opened one of the first movie theatres in the city of Lodz in 1907, his grandfather was a film producer and distributor for the big American studios, Kolski’s father and older sister were both editors.
		Jan Jakub Kolski remains a creator of his own variety of auteur cinema, and we can only assume that the reasons for his not fully expressing his creative independence in recent years are non-artistic.
		Kolski purposely judges their stances in an ambiguous manner on the premise that good and evil co-exist in the world; the director seems to say that not always do they need to be categorically distinguished from each other.
	www.culture.pl /en/culture/artykuly/os_kolski_jan_jakub (4416 words)

	Central Europe Review - Film: Historia kina w Popielawach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although the supernatural is often present in the films of Kolski's compatriot, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Symbolist dream-like sequences are still common in Russian and Yugoslav film, Kolski stands alone in Central European cinema as a director who is concerned more with the spiritual than the material, the social or the political.
		Kolski presents his story in terms of the age-old opposition of time as a linear dimension and as a cyclical one, with the director's heart more adamantly leaning toward the latter.
		Kolski himself has a personal interest in such connections: his grandfather ran one of the first cinemas in Poland and also produced films.
	www.ce-review.org /99/12/kinoeye12_horton1.html (848 words)

	Jan Jakub Kolski - English - Biography, Filmography etc.
		A director, a cameraman, a screenplay writer, a writer; Jan Jakub Kolski was born on January 29, 1956 in Wroclaw, Poland.
		Nevertheless in that movie, as well as the next ones, Kolski employed his own vision of the world enriched with magic, and is considered to be the founder of the "magical realism" trend in Polish filmmaking.
		Kolski is closely connected with TV and many movies and other works were made for this medium.
	www.estiej.republika.pl /efakty.htm (1407 words)

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		The work of Jan Jakub Kolski, probably the most stylistically unconventional of contemporary Polish filmmakers, has been compared to the magic realism of South American writers, but his films, despite innumerable awards at home and abroad, are not magic at the boxoffice.
		But viewers should know that Gombrowicz himself, stranded in Argentina from the outbreak of the war, warned that his “depiction” should not be taken literally, and Kolski himself, unlike Polanski, did not experience the occupation and, like Gombrowicz, had other concerns as well.
		Kolski has added a few elements that offer some clarification of the story’s context, and his characteristically compassionate view has softened Gombrowicz’s satiric edge.
	www.polishculture-nyc.org /pornografia_more.htm (404 words)

	The Jewish Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kolski’s film should help make them more widely known, for it is a work of considerable intelligence, wit and visual elegance.
		It is 1943 and occupied Warsaw is crumbling.
		Kolski’s previous film, “Keep Away from the Window,” which played in the New York Jewish Film Festival in 2001, centered on hidden Jews in WWII Poland.
	www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=8547&print=yes (1200 words)

	Jan Jakub Kolski - English - Away From The Window (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The girl gets pregnant with Jan. Barbara decides to pretend that she is going to have a baby – she puts a cushion under her dress.
		The plot is also a description of Jan Jakub Kolski's Daleko od okna (Keep Away from the Window, 2000).
		Moreover, Kolski fans may well be disappointed with the film in that the director seems to be gradually moving away from the magic realism that made his name in films such as Jancio Wodnik (Johnny Waterman / Johnny the Aquarius, 1993).
	republika.pl /estiej/edaleko.htm (671 words)

	Kolski Jan Jakub Kolski - Filmography, Awards, Biography, Agent, Discussions, Photos, News Articles, Fan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kolski lives up to his reputation as a proponent of magic realism with his latest film offering, an 'invented history' of cinema.
		Jan Jakub Kolski has earned himself a strange reputation sequences are still common in Russian and Yugoslav film, Kolski stands alone in Central European cinema as a director.
		Currently The work of Jan Jakub Kolski, probably the most stylistically unconventional of contemporary Polish not be taken literally, and Kolski himself, unlike Polanski, did not experience.
	www.99hosted.com /names11123.html (453 words)

	Warsaw Voice - Pornography Anyone?
		Pornography, the latest film by Jan Jakub Kolski, was well received by audiences at the Venice Film Festival.
		Some were attracted by the title, others by the name of Witold Gombrowicz, one of the most outstanding writers and playwrights of the 20th century, on whose novel Kolski based his film.
		Kolski, 47, is a graduate of the prestigious £ód¼ Film School.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /view/3390 (201 words)

	Polish Cinema Since 1989 - the film society of lincoln center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It seems in his absence the townspeople had divided up his possessions, and now want to keep them; moreover, a local estate is about to be divided by the new communist rulers, and they don't want yet another claimant to reduce their shares.
		Kolski offers a chilling look at postwar tensions, in which people seeking to forget the past are simultaneously learning to deal with a new and unknown social order - leading them in some case to reveal dark and terrifying aspects of themselves.
		In Kolski's world, not only does the natural reside with the supernatural, but good and evil seem to be found everywhere in tandem; it's only the arrogance of humanity that pretends they can be separated.
	www.filmlinc.com /wrt/programs/4-2004/poland.htm (3240 words)

	BBC - Films - Festivals and Seasons - Eastern European Cinema
		Eastern European cinéastes are in for a treat during October, as seasons devoted to the Croatian film industry and the distinctive genius of Romanian Lucian Pintilie and Pole Jan Jakub Kolski play across the capital.
		Jan Jakub Kolski is one of Poland's most distinctive directors, and the Polish Cultural Institute's season at the Riverside Studios (23rd-24th October) is the UK's first comprehensive tribute.
		Kolski's debut, Burial Of A Potato (1990), is a typically eclectic mix of fable and hard-hitting comment, as the village to which Franciszek Pieczka returns after being released from a Nazi camp may be populated with seemingly harmless eccentrics, but they still exhibit a poisonous (and wholly misplaced) anti-Semitism.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/festivals/eastern_european_cinema.shtml (512 words)

	Jan Jakub Kolski - English - Pornography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Still, as it has often been the case with earlier Kolski films, the themes are weighty enough to warrant more invitations to international events, possibly even awards, with prospects limited to selected art houses at best.
		Anyone who goes to see Jan Jakub Kolski's film "Pornography" expecting a vicarious immersion in steaming flesh is in for a disappointment.
		Colonel Siemian (Jan Frycz), a partisan who has been leading the resistance forces in the forest, abruptly deserts the army and shows up, a quivering nervous wreck, and locks himself in his room.
	republika.pl /estiej/epornografia.htm (1546 words)

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		Jan and Basia are a happy young couple, seemingly unaffected by the pressures of the Nazi Occupation of Poland.
		Until, that is, Jan is called to paint over bloodstains on a wall.
		The daughter, Helusia, is raised as Jan and Basia's daughter, even after the war, as Regina has survived and has emigrated to Germany.
	polish.slavic.pitt.edu /festival/films.html (1166 words)

	TRIBUTE TO JAN JAKUB KOLSKI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jan Jakub Kolski has won numerous awards and built almost a cult following among critics and international festivals audiences with his unique style and almost mystical stories that exist in a world of their own’
		In his debut Kolski introduces some of his favourite bizarre and alluring characters: a golden hearted simpleton, an insane and frivolous woman, mean and scurvy landowners and a desperately lonely orphan.
		Generations of the same family are cursed with an obsession with the ‘cine-machine' and Kolski uses this story to contemplate the phenomena of cinematography itself.
	www.polishculture.org.uk /EVENTS_2004/kolski.html (590 words)

	Jan Jakub Kolski - English - Playing From The Plate
		She towers over their cottage as if it were a doll's house at the end, a huge tear splashing at Morka's feet wittily paralleling an earlier teardrop, drawn from a horses eye by Lunda's beautiful playing, which splashes across a passing grasshopper.
		Kolski's films typically build up an indefinable sort of atmosphere by drawing together elements of the simple and the strange.
		Kolski doesn't want to work from a whole answer.
	www.estiej.republika.pl /egrajacy.htm (620 words)

	EVENTS/ART (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In September 2001, film director Jan Jakub Kolski will start work on a film version of Witold Gombrowicz’s 1960s novel Pornography.
		Subsequently, the challenge has been taken up by Kolski, in a Franco-Polish co-production, with Krzsztof Majchrzak, Krzysztof Pieczyski and Krzysztof Globisz included in the cast.
		Kolski intends to create a fairly faithful adaptation of the novel, but nethertheless, has his own angle in mind: "To me, it deals mainly with the complex of non-participation in the war.
	www.polishculture.org.uk /news_pornography.html (325 words)

	Cinema_polaco
		Jan Jakub Kolski has been one of the most important film directors with artistic ambitions.
		In the case of Pasikowski it is still (with exception of one film) action movies, and in the case of Kolski it is a mythical vision of a village, built on a realistic foundation ( Kolski spent his childhood in a village).
		In the film there are of course fantastic ideas so typical to Kolski (a coachman freezes together with his horse and becomes an ice sculpture only to —of course — defrost and come back to life).
	www.emb-polonia.pt /Por/Cultura/cinemapolaco.html (5931 words)

	Home
		En trois minutes, Jan Jakub Kolski pose d'emblée l'enjeu de son intrigue et démontre son talent de cinéaste.
		Pain can be seen on the faces of his characters (on Barbara's, for example, who is unable to accept her sterility); a spot of blood on a wall, stains on the floor, next to a yellow star, we ask Jan to cover all the traces.
		With his last film, Jan Jakub Kolski won the Golden Lions Grand Prize at the XXIIIrd Polish Fiction Film Festival in Gdynia, in October 1998, before sharing the most important award at Cinema tout Ecran 1999, with Claire Denis 's Beau travail.
	www.cinema-tout-ecran.ch /2001/films/pagesfilms/film8.html (527 words)

	Europalia 2001 Polska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		During the last ten years Jan Jakub Kolski has been one of the most important film directors with artistic ambitions.
		In the case of Pasikowski it is still (with exception of one film) action movies, and in the case of Kolski it is a mythical vision of a village, built on a realistic foundation (Kolski spent his childhood in a village).
		A film by Kolski titled Jañcio Wodnik [Johnny, the Aquarius] (1993 r.) was shown in Polish cinemas soon after "Psy".
	www.europalia.pl /www.europalia.pl/en/home15.html (12448 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Pornography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Polish author Witold Gombrowicz depicts some of the symptoms of the disease in this relaxed and fluid adaptation of his novel by director Jan Jakub Kolski.
		The violence of the war invades the manor when a young boy stabs Waclaw's mother while trying to steal some food and Siemian (Jan Frycz), a partisan leader, is given sanctuary after a mental breakdown.
		He is unable to cope with the senseless death and destruction of the war.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_6632.html (376 words)

	Jan Jakub Kolski - English - Pograbek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gravedigger does supply a plot, which is set up by Pograbek's inability to impregnate his wife, but character and atmosphere are more important to the film's charm.
		Kolski's regular Franciszek Piecka shines in his role as an old man off to hang himself after two years of promising to do so, and radiates a quiet quirkiness that suits the film's style perfectly.
		He foolishly elects to suspend himself from a birch tree, and returns as a resentful ghost who has lost his taste for cigarettes.
	republika.pl /estiej/epograbek.htm (1169 words)

	ÌÎËÎÄIÑÒÜ Êè¿âñüêèé ìiæíàðîäíèé êiíîôåñòèâàëü (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This film is second in the creative work of Jan Jakub Kolski.
		Especially Jakub is depressed by mentally primitive spirituality of local belivers.
		Jan earns a living with «pot-boilers» organized for him by Jodl who collaborates with Germans as a policeman.
	www.molodist.com /go.php/Programm/302/24?alt=english (686 words)

	Time Regained (Le Temps Retrouve)
		Very few, however, will have heard of Jan Jakub Kolski, despite his huge popularity in Poland; as far as I know only four of his films have ever been publicly screened in the UK, all in a single week of 1996 in Cambridge.
		Born in either 1956 or 1957 (sources disagree), Kolski can perhaps be described as a “magical realist”, to use a term generally associated with South American novelists; indeed Gabriel Garcia Marquez is said to be among his favourite writers.
		For those of us who regard Polish national cinema as among the most interesting in the world, it is to be hoped that this eclipse is just a temporary phenomenon; perhaps Poland’s imminent entry to the EU will change matters.
	www.talkingpix.co.uk /ReviewsJohnnyAquarius.html (898 words)

	8 SOFIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
		Director Jan Jakub Kolski effectively finds the cinematic means to capture Gombrowicz's abrupt changes of mood and tone and almost surreal juxtapositions, while anchoring the story in a very concrete time and place.
		Born on January 29, 1956 in Wroclaw (Poland), he graduated from the Film School in Lódz, in the Department of Cinematography (1985).
		Film Director, Director of Photography, Scriptwriter and Writer, he is the author of 10 feature films, 20 short films and 5 TV Dramas and is a member of the European Film Academy.
	www.cinema.bg /sff/2004/eng/movie.php?movieSid=172 (228 words)

	Johnny Aquarius (Jancio Wodnik) Film Review - Time Out Film
		Kolski's idiosyncratic blend of pantheistic mysticism and bucolic comedy is here applied to an obscure fable about a peasant blessed with mysterious healing powers who abandons his pregnant wife to tour the countryside.
		The fame attendant upon his miracles and the machinations of a charlatan Christ impersonator turn his head - but a curse put on his family by a crazed vagrant brings him, eventually, to his senses.
		Certainly Kolski's images are often startlingly eccentric, as are the shifts between 'reality', fantasy and symbolism, but quite what it all means, beyond its warning against the temptations of the flesh, remains a mystery.
	www.timeout.com /film/77240.html (298 words)

	Kinoeye \| Polish film: A profile of Jan Lenica, master animator
		Animator, graphic artist and set designer Jan Lenica died in Berlin on 5 October 2001, aged 73.
		The first choice was not much of a surprise, but to single out Jan Lenica, a comparatively obscure animator, must have seemed a little puzzling.
		Lenica, who died last month, is probably best known in the UK for his poster artwork for Roman Polanski's films for the Compton production company, Repulsion (1965) and Cul-de-Sac (1966).
	www.kinoeye.org /01/06/bird06.php (1192 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Pornography
		Screenplay by: Gérard Brach, Luc Bondy and Jan Jakub Kolski
		But while there's something to be said about the irregularly nurturing and lascivious relationships between the film's older and younger generations, Kolski fails to follow through on much of anything.
		Pornography is D.H. Lawrence without the penetration, Diary of a Chambermaid with none of the bite and philosophical imagination.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=841 (327 words)

	Haifa - Boston Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He dedicates the film to his parents and talks about the haunting weight of the past, the living memory of the Holocaust, and its effect on our lives.
		Other films are "Les Fantomes de Louba" (France 2000) by Martine Dugowson, "Keep Away from the Window" (Poland 2000) by Jan Jakub Kolski, and "Edges of the Lord" (USA 2001) by Yurek Bogayevicz.
		Directors Pierre Grimblat ("Lisa") and Jan Jakub Kolski ("Keep Away from the Window"), and Mrs.
	www.haifa-boston.org /news-0110-film.asp (425 words)

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