Andrzej Wajda Retrospective Coming to Film Society of Lincoln Center

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Published on Friday, 27 January 2017 15:59

Written by Jack Angstreich

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The legendary Polish director Andrzej Wajda who died last year at the age of ninety is being honored at the Film Society of Lincoln Center with an eleven-film tribute from February 9th to the 16th, presented in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute. The selection of films is quite good even if several of the most impressive films from the first half of his career such as Ashes, Everything for Sale and The Wedding are missing. Fortunately, all the films—excepting the New York premiere of his final film, Afterimage, from last year—are being screened in 35mm.

Afterimage, photographed attractively in widescreen, is a portrait of the final years—a period of Stalinist persecution and Kulturkampf—of the significant Polish avant-garde artist, Władysław Strzemiński, brilliantly portrayed by the great Bogusław Linda. Wajda's perspective on the material is not especially original here, and stylistically and imaginatively this is a relatively conventional work in the director's œuvre,but he approaches the subject with sensitivity and skill with an admirable consistency and is especially effective at evoking the early postwar period in Łódź.

Afterimage screens on Thursday, February 9th at 7pm.

To learn more, go to: http://www.filmlinc.org/

Tribute to Andrzej Wajda
February 9 - 16, 2017

Film Society of Lincoln Center
70 Lincoln Center Plaza #7
New York, NY 10023

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