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	Welcome Poland - Informations about Lodz in Poland.
		Lodz voivodeship is a place of dynamic development of entrepreneurship, as well as many opportunities for success in the area of: new investments, privatization of state owned enterprises, investment and commercial activity.
		Lodz voivodeship is favorably located as it lies in the geographic center of the country, at the cross roads of the main communication routes north - south and east - west.
		The creation of the National Film School gave to the town a role of higher importance from a cultural point of view, which before the war had belonged exclusively to Warsaw and Kraków.
	www.welcomepoland.com /lodz (828 words)

	Film \| Great British hope
		In one sense, Young is in a fortunate position as far as Cannes is concerned: her short film, Second Hand, won the Cinéfondation film school prize back in 1999, and such an award practically assures a favourable response to a debut feature.
		Second Hand, a quiet, introspective story of a schoolgirl who has stolen a school uniform from a second-hand sale, was actually made as part of Young's coursework at Lodz film school - the renowned Polish training academy - where she spent five years after leaving university in Scotland.
		She's looking forward to the official screening of her film later in the afternoon ("It's not an evening do, thank God, so we don't have to dress up"), but seems strangely unperturbed by the fuss that is surrounding her film.
	film.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4674610-111448,00.html (1176 words)

	Looking to recapture role as promised land - Marketplace by Bloomberg - International Herald Tribune
		LODZ, Poland It was supposed to be the promised land of textile workers a century ago.
		Lodz's population of 774,000 has shrunk by 10 percent since 1989, when the collapse of the Warsaw Pact destroyed the market for the city's suits and shirts.
		Salaries in Lodz, averaging 2,119 zloty, or $665, a month, are less than a fifth of the average in Britain and a third less than in Warsaw, 90 minutes away by car.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/08/01/bloomberg/bxlodz.php (798 words)

	The Lodz Film School At MoMA
		Founded in 1948 as a cog in Stalin's propaganda machine, the Lodz Film School turned in on itself and by the mid 1950's was graduating filmmakers that would go on to define an entire generation of post-war Polish cinema -- names like Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussi, Roman Polanski, and Krzysztof Kieslowski.
		Now 50 years old, the school has hit the road with a series of films -- predominantly shorts -- that offers the work of future masters in their formative stages as well as films from one-time Polish film students you've probably never heard of.
		Among these films, Malgorzata Szumowska's "Silence" (1997) is an evocative documentary depiction of early morning farm activity.
	www.indiewire.com /onthescene/fes_98MoMA_981217_LodzScho.html (394 words)

	Polish culture: The Leon Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School
		The Leon Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School was established in 1958 through a merger of two Lodz schools, both active since 1948: the State Acting School (re-named the Leon Schiller State Theatre School in 1954) and the State Film School.
		Jolanta Lemann, Lodz 1998) ["The Leon Schiller State Film, Television and Theatre School" in "The Leon Schiller Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz in 1948-1996.
		The school's model of education and the famed alumni of its Department of Cinematography are behind the international rank and prestige of
	www.culture.pl /en/culture/artykuly/in_ed_pwst_lodz (2154 words)

	Studying Cinema: Lodz Film School
		The National Film, Television and Theatre School of Lódz, celebrating this year its 50th anniversary- it was founded in 1948-, has been an important education centre for the greatest Polish film-makers and a pivotal cultural centre for the whole country.
		Among the first students who attend the School were the directors Andrzej Munk, Andrzej Wajda, Janusz Morgenstern- who at the end of the Fifties became famous as one of the founders of the "Polish School" of cinematography, together with Jerzy Wójcik, Witold Sobocinski, Mieczyslaw Jahoda, Wieslaw Zdort and Adam Holender.
		Kluba says that the young directors and operators should continue to draw their inspiration from the rich tradition of the past of the Film School, but at the same time using the new technologies and the new forms of artistic expression they produce, such as music videoclips, TV spots, and so on..
	www.tscont.ts.it /LodzE.htm (1470 words)

	Danish Cultural Institute \| Cultural events \| The films of danish film-makers who were once students at the Lodz film ...
		Katia Forbert-Petersen and Annette Mari Olsen met at the Film School with Lodz film-lovers, film-makers, and film students.
		She has filmed four feature films (among them the films Lukasz and Agnes, which won awards at competitions held in Poznan in 1974 and 1975), television productions (The Adventures of Charles Perrault and Canterbury Tales for Polish Television in 1974 and 1975), along with many other mini-films and documentaries.
		Forbert-Petersen is a graduate of the Lodz Film School.
	www.dik.org.pl /en/ce/danishfilms.htm (494 words)

	Krzysztof Kieslowski
		He chose film directing because he thought it would be related to the theatre, but failed his entrance exams to Lódz Film School two successive years in a row.
		The film school was founded in 1948 for Stalinist propaganda, but it had developed a reputation for its liberal curriculum, which included rare screenings of international cinema and courses in film theory, as well as the production of fiction and documentary films.
		Filmed in less than a year—an astonishingly short amount of time given its uniformly excellent quality of dramaturgy—Kieslowski clearly enjoyed a flexible approach to the project, shooting the series out-of-sequence according to the needs of the production and its recurring personnel, while taking into account evolving decisions in the editing room.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/kieslowski.html (4289 words)

	synopsis3.1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He is a graduate of the Polish Film School, and the Institute des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques in Paris.
		It was only in the film school that I learned to love films and cinema, by watching and reading and discussing with people whose lives was cinema.
		The very first film treatment of his prose was done by me in school.
	www.mainfilm.qc.ca /synopsis/html/synopsis4.4.html (1183 words)

	Polish1450Syllabus
		Films representing post-war history and, more specifically, films covering important social and political transformations, but made after the fact.
		The final group of films is chosen purely on the basis of artistic merit.
		Textbook 1, pp 41-42 and Film School of Poland, pp.
	www.pitt.edu /~slavic/courses/pol1450/index.html (715 words)

	Krzysztof Kieslowski - Dokuments
		Filmed after the strikes of December 1970 (in which workers were killed), the downfall of the Communist Party First Secretary Gomulka, and the assumption of power by Edward Gierek promising a “new Poland”, the film "was intended to portray the workers' state of mind in 1971.
		It was meant to be a film about the fact that in all the mess surrounding us, in all the dirt, ineptness, and human impotence, in which nothing can be fully accomplished, there are still a number of people who achieve a real sense of accomplishment.
		The film recounts as fully as possible the artistic path of Kieslowski and the character of the man, presenting a portrait of a fulfilled artist, of a director wholly engaged in the drama of the time of his protagonists.
	www.polishculture-nyc.org /kieslowski_documents.htm (4489 words)

	U B U W E B : Films by Stefan and Franciszka Themerson
		Though Poland before World War II did not have the kind of established and thriving avant-garde film movement seen at the time in France and England, a number of extremely interesting experiments with the film medium were made by artists in Warsaw and Cracow.
		It is fairly evident that a young Roman Polanski might have seen it at the Lodz Film School and found in it some of the inspiration for his renowned 1958 student film, Two Men and a Wardrobe.
		Ironically, the film is said to have been banned by the British government for its inappropriately anti-war tone.
	www.ubu.com /film/themerson.html (731 words)

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		Poorly received by Polish state officials and some domestic critics, the film was a sensation in the West, awarded the Critics' Prize at the Venice Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award.
		His next film, MACBETH (1971), was a brutally realistic adaptation of the violent Shakespeare tragedy that was interpreted by some critics as the filmmaker's cathartic response to the Manson slayings.
		Polanski's next film to achieve some degree of critical and commercial success was the suspenseful yet dreamy FRANTIC (1988), featuring Harrison Ford as an American in Paris who loses and searches for his wife.
	www.kunstwissen.de /fach/f-kuns/film/rp.htm (1090 words)

	The Sticking Place Film - Amos Vogel : Film as a Subversive Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Film as a Subversive Art, a book that drives home the notion Herzog states so eloquently above: that most of the images around us are worn-out, suffused with commercialism, even pernicious in their banality.
		Film as a Subversive Art, were assembled long before video/DVD projection became common practice in the classroom.
		The audiences of Cinema 16 were presented with a wide range of film forms, often programmed so as to confront - and sometimes to shock - conventional expectations, including works of the avant-garde, documentaries of all kinds, experimental animation, and foreign or independent features and shorts not in distribution in the United States.
	www.thestickingplace.com /film/vogel.html (1796 words)

	Andrzej Wajda
		The famous film diptych with new interviews on each film is being shown in honor of the Solidarity movement, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2005.
		The film’s structure recalls that of Citizen Kane, complete with cleverly created period newsreels, as the filmmaker tracks down the history of the worker hero’s rise and fall — and reconstructs in the process a panorama of the whole history of Poland from the Stalinist 50s to the mid 70s.
		Perhaps not only of film?” But the censors deleted those two linesas they did a closing sequence of the film, in a cemetery where Agnieszka looks in vain for the grave of the worker-hero Birkut, killed in the 1970 crackdown.
	www.polishculture-nyc.org /wajda_films.htm (952 words)

	A Tribute to Krzysztof Kieslowski
		Consequently, film emerged as a crucial means of communication as well as a kind of social conscience, carefully and implicitly (to avoid the wrath of government censors) depicting a way of life denied by Party dominance.
		In 1972 he released a pair of films commissioned by the Lubin Copper Mine, Miedzy Wroclawiem a Zielona Gora (Between Wroclaw and Zielona Gora) and Podstawy BHP w Koplani Miedzi (The Principles of Safety and Hygiene in a Copper Mine).
		However, it was the final film in the trilogy, 1994's Red, which brought Kieslowski his greatest acclaim.
	my.dreamwiz.com /jyjung71/eng/kie/bio.html (1186 words)

	Krzysztof Zanussi - Professor of European Film - Biography
		A professor at the Silesian University in Katowice and former president of FERA (Fédération Européenne des Réalisateurs de l'Audiovisuel), he is director of the Polish film studio TOR.
		Zanussi studied physics, film and philosophy in Warsaw and Krakow and graduated in film direction from the Lodz Film School.
		Krzysztof Zanussi is professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts an Intensive Summer Workshop.
	www.egs.edu /faculty/zanussi.html (181 words)

	National Film School in Łódź - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, in the end the school remained in Łódź and is one of the best-known institutions of higher education in that town.
		Since 1948, the school has been the alma mater of most renowned Polish artists connected to the cinema and the stage.
		After 1958 the school became one of the most notable cultural think-tanks of Poland, with many outsiders and artists not supported by the communist authorities joining it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Film_School_in_Lodz (510 words)

	Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing
		His last film, “The Country of Birth” was awarded Grand Prix at the Cracow Film Festival 2003 and nominated for the European Film Award 2003.
		Film Director, Screenwriter, Born in Lodz in 28.02.1944.
		Studied history and philosophy at Lodz University and graduated as a film director from the Theatre and Film School in Lodz.
	www.wajdaschool.pl /52 (3706 words)

	Film Festivals . com - People
		He had cut the film four times already (including once for the Berlin film festival and once for the airline version) and decided to add more minutes to the MOMA version.
		She began her career at the age of four, starring in silent films and launching a career that lasted for decades.
		The film follows two aging rock groupies whose lives have taken different paths: one is a waitress (Hawn) while the other is a yuppie schoolteacher (Sarandon).
	www.filmfestivals.com /htm/archives/4oct00/people.html (632 words)

	GAIFF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1960 he joined the film direction faculty at the Lodz Film School (grad.1966).
		This film presnts a record of the last working year of the old prison of Valparaiso, which closed in 1999.
		It is a homage to the prison and to the values and customs of the men, who have secretly lived within it during its 150 year history.
	gaiff.am /en/film/17/25 (484 words)

	Film & Video Department - Graduate Program
		His films have been featured at major international film festivals, and are included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
		His Afghan films were among the first to be included in the National Film Archive of the Smithsonian Institution.
		Her films have been funded by regional and national arts organizations, and screened and won awards internationally.
	www.colum.edu /undergraduate/filmvideo/GraduateProgram/faculty.htm (860 words)

	DenverPost.com - Recalling a master of cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Julie is tuned in to the internal music of the unfinished symphony her husband was composing when he died in a car crash along with their young daughter.
		On Sunday, the Denver Film Society begins a spectacular three-week exploration of the Polish director's exquisite humanism.
		It was put together by the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Polish Film Archive.
	www.denverpost.com /filmfestival/ci_4407322 (681 words)

	village voice > film > by Ryan Deussing
		Founded in 1948 under the Stalinist maxim "Film helps the working class and its Party breed socialism in the working soul," Poland's Lodz Film School became, by the mid 1950s, the unlikely center of a Polish cultural renaissance.
		To mark the school's 50th anniversary, MOMA has assembled a program of 128 student films, many of which have never been screened outside of Poland.
		Piwowski's film, meanwhile, is a seamless combination of fact and fiction, a staged conversation piece in which eccentric nonactors carry on inside a café until things reach a fever pitch.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/9851,deussing,2212,20.html (361 words)

	Film school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Film school is a generic term for any educational institution dedicated to teaching moviemaking, including, but not limited to, film production, theory, and writing for the screen.
		Others argue that film school is important because it allows students to develop their skills under the guidance of professional instructors, and to network and connect with others interested in filmmaking, as well as with those who may eventually offer them careers in the industry.
		One example is that the more prestigious schools allow their students to showcase work in film festivals near the end of the semester for film producers and executives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Film_school (709 words)

	Polish culture: "Inferno". TV feature film by Maciej Pieprzyca
		1964), a graduate of the Screenwriting Program at the Lodz Film School (1990) who went on to obtain a directing degree from the Radio and Television Department of the University of Silesia in Katowice in 1993.
		This story of three high school girls, of whom two prove to be murderers of the third, ventures beyond the documentary frame, though its director recreates the social background of the crime in almost documentary fashion.
		The gloomy school corridors, classrooms, restrooms and basements on the day of the prom, the nervous rhythm of the images and the pulsating music and lights are a metaphorical representation of the heroines' mindset.
	www.culture.pl /en/culture/artykuly/dz_inferno_pieprzyca (384 words)

	Catharsis Part I
		In this film, a man is walking down a flight of stair and at the landing he pauses to look out the window.
		Polanski again managed to upset the students at the Lodz Film School, the next year, and almost got himself kicked out in the process.
		This film is unique in that it is in both color and fl and white.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/directors_corner/21868/2 (526 words)

	Been There \| Tips \| film
		The Film School, which is situated in an old palace in Targowa street in the centre of Lodz is a must-see.
		This is a part of the National Film Board of Canada centre in the Latin Quarter.
		However the cafe shows a free film which we were shown in English of the artist talking about his ideas and then there are interior shots.
	www.ivebeenthere.co.uk /tips/film (1361 words)

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