Dekalog 1-10 - Kieslowski - New Remastered Edition [4 DVD] Multilingual

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Although the current round pens carry a similar refill and write just as well, I’m still a little sentimental for the hexagonal pens. I alternated between fountain pens and these MUJI pens for most of the mathematics I wrote at university: their narrower line width was useful for drawing out intricate symbols next to prose. Most of my peers’ projects tended to be more theoretical, so I was glad I had the chance to marry a little bit of theory and practice (mostly thanks to Alex Rogers, my supervisor). Dekalog is available on DVD and Blu-ray disks; these boxed sets are produced by TVP, Television Poland. The film images have been digitally reconstructed and the sound remastered. I jog past Harrods. Influencers pose for identikit photos all along the street. I’m guilty too, I think to myself: I’ve been taking poorly framed selfies in front of flags all morning. Biography of Krysztof Kieślowski". Facets. Archived from the original on 24 July 2010 . Retrieved 6 June 2017.

I jog north through Kensington to Estonia, Bulgaria, and the Netherlands. A Dutch guard notices me, but he’s disinterested. I navigate to Greece through Holland Park using my phone and the printed maps I have with me. The embassy is at the top of the hill. I’m not happy, but I am forgiving: I’m close to the end now.Individual documentaries may indeed be scripted and structured to prove a point, but the form has an a priori openness to the unexpected, the uncontrolled, even the unreadable. Reality can transfix, however uncertain its meaning—or precisely because uncertainty nags like a riddle one feels it might be possible to solve. If the young man is the series’ most complete embodiment of the element of opacity in reality, its resistance to interpretation, Dekalog: Four, with its uncertainty over just what Anka may or may not have done with the letter around which it revolves, may be its fullest enactment. Kieślowski’s account of the young man’s genesis has the studio’s literary director, Witek Zalewski, worrying that the initial scripts were missing something—an absence remedied, paradoxically, by rendering it palpable, through this figure. He is the placeholder for an unknown, the reality to which fiction can respond by depositing speculation around it, as the sand grain provokes the oyster to deposit the pearl that obscures it. The result can be a form of the ambiguity prized by the great French film theorist and critic André Bazin, for whom photography disclosed “the natural image of a world that we neither know nor can know” and was “an hallucination that is also a fact.” Is the young man mourning Paweł at the series’ start, or simply brushing smoke from his eyes? His direct look at the camera, like that of an enigmatically silent documentary interviewee, drives a wedge into our own, spectatorial world, opening it up to realities visible, at most, through a glass darkly. I’m a little melancholic to close this chapter of my life. I am, however, incredibly grateful for the experience and to the people who supported me along the way.

Thanks to some tight editing to get them under the 10,000 word limit, both theses came to exactly 9,989 words. Dekalog: One," the initial piece of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s monumental series "Dekalog," opens the curtain to a world where morality and human choices intertwine in a dance of poignant revelations and inevitable consequences. Set in Poland, it paves the way to explore intricate human relationships and ethical choices, making it a must-watch for aficionados of Eastern European cinema. Director's Vision Amongst Economist articles Piketty is an even more extreme outlier. I’ve found no evidence in The Economist Style Guide that the publication requires the use of nationality or profession when introducing individuals, and the data show this is true of other economists. In conclusion, I’ve absolutely no idea why the newspaper so frequently introduces him as the “ French economist Thomas Piketty”, but they certainly refer to his nationality and occupation a great deal more than they do of his peers. Ewa tries to breastfeed Ania without any milk. Wojtek tells Majka that Ania needs a home with milk. Cast: Henryk Baranowski, Wojciech Klata, Maja Komorowska, Artur Barcis, Maria Gladkowska, Ewa Kania

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The series was conceived when screenwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz, who had seen a 15th-century artwork illustrating the Commandments in scenes from that time period, suggested the idea of a modern equivalent. Filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski was interested in the philosophical challenge, and also wanted to use the series as a portrait of the hardships of Polish society, while deliberately avoiding the political issues he had depicted in earlier films. He originally meant to hire ten different directors, but decided to direct the films himself. He used a different cinematographer for each episode except III and IX, in both of which Piotr Sobociński was director of photography. [10]

Mayfair and Marylebone are built on a grid around squares created by wealthy landowners in the Georgian era. Navigation is easy and it takes me no effort to find Italy in Grovesnor Square. I often jog around this corner of the West End. Malta and Cyprus aren’t far. I jog around St James’s Park to Slovenia. As much as our intentions may be good, New Year’s resolutions mostly fail through poor goal setting: all of the above are much to vague for a start. Plenty has already been written in favour of using SMART goals but I think we should approach resolutions differently. Over the morning I ran just over 30 KM, 20 of which were between the embassies. My Apple Watch reports that I’ve completed my move ring 720%. I wonder if I needn’t move for the rest of the week. Maja Komorowska - Irena: Krzysztof's sister, she deeply believes in God and does not understand her brother much but they respect each other and have in common their love for little Paweł.As a film enthusiast, you understand the richness of diverse cinema. That's why we ensure that each film, such as Dekalog: One, is accompanied by subtitles in various languages, including Arabic, English, Portuguese and Russian, to bridge the gap between cultures and to provide an inclusive cinematic experience for all. Such is the nature of art some film directors choose to so deliberately practice— an art of rendering powerless all the lies we forge our lives with, an art of shattering all our ideological defenses and piercing through the very core of our being, leaving behind nothing but an unbearable emptiness. Related to Dekalog: One – Conflicting Resolutions and the Metaphor of the Aged People in Kieślowski’s Three Colors Trilogy

A university professor ( Henryk Baranowski) trains his young son in the use of reason and the scientific method, but is confronted with the unpredictability of fate. Reason is defied with tragic results. [1] [2] Plot [ edit ] Behind the Camera: Poland's Best Cinematographers". Facets. Archived from the original on 25 July 2010 . Retrieved 6 June 2017. The Village Voice ranked The Decalogue at No. 112 in its Top 250 "Best Films of the Century" list in 1999, based on a poll of critics. [23] In January 2002, the film was listed among the Top 100 "Essential Films" of all time by the National Society of Film Critics. [24] The film ranked #36 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" in 2010. [25] Or look at the moral switch in “Decalogue Six,” which is about a lonely teenage boy who uses a telescope to spy on the sex life of a morally careless, lonely woman who lives across the way. He decides he loves her. They see each other because he is a clerk in the post office. He takes a morning milk route so he can see her then, too. Almost inevitably, she finds out he is a peeping tom (and also an anonymous phone caller, and a prankster), but we can hardly guess what she does then.

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When Roger Ebert taught Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog ( The Decalogue , 1989) at the University of Chicago, he had difficulties pairing the Ten Commandments with the ten films. According to Ebert, “there was no 1-1-correlation” (1). In the American DVD release of the film, however, each film is explicitly paired with a commandment. Dekalog, j eden ( The Decalogue 1) is paired with the commandment “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.” This pairing is perhaps the least controversial. The film, which Ebert describes as the “saddest” in the cycle, tells the story of an atheist computer scientist Krzysztof (Henryk Baranowski), his son Pawel (Wojciech Klata) and their misplaced faith in the knowledge of humanity. Even Ebert suggests that the film fundamentally concerns the computer as a “false god”. Dekalog ( pronounced [dɛˈkalɔg], also known as Dekalog: The Ten Commandments and The Decalogue) is a 1989 Polish drama television miniseries directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski [2] and co-written by Kieślowski with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, with music by Zbigniew Preisner. [3] It consists of ten one-hour films, inspired by the decalogue of the Ten Commandments. [4] Each short film explores characters facing one or several moral or ethical dilemmas as they live in an austere housing project in 1980s Poland.