Also, surprized to see Kieslowski's name mentioned by her...a man with mystical tendencies! (Bet that was well thought of in the Soviet bloc). Unlike Cian, though, I like all his stuff, from Decalog to Rouge, Bleu and even the "Double Life of Veronique".
Speaking of Tarkovsky, has anyone heard that Solaris is being remade? Details????
What about the really great Czech animators? Anybody know about their political background?
Thomas
--- Cian O'Connor <cian_oconnor at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> --- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote: >
>
> >
> > As for the Soviet bloc, it produced many fine
> > artists aside from such
> > film giants as Vertov and Eisenstein. Andrzej
> > Wajda, Andrei
> > Tarkovsky, Béla Tarr (check out Jonathan
> Rosenbaum's
> > comments at
> >
>
<http://www.chireader.com/movies/archives/0596/05106.html>),
> > Andrzej
> > Munk, Marta Meszaros, Mikhail Kalatozov, Krzysztof
> > Kieslowski (whose
> > films produced under socialism were superior to
> his
> > post-communist
> > works), Peter Kahane, Frank Beyer, Heiner Carow,
> > Konrad Wolf, and so
> > on, and so forth.
>
> It had many fine artists, though many of them
> (including several, possibly all, that you name
> here)
> were not communists, and fairly critical. Tarkovsky
> and Kieslowski had problems getting films made and
> shown (and of course Parajadanov, who you don't
> mention, was jailed). Outside the brief period that
> Vertov and Eisenstein operated within, I can't think
> of any pro-communist Eastern Block filmmakers who
> were
> any good. Plenty of good political filmmakers though
> -
> maybe political art needs a sense of urgency thats
> lacking in the west?
>
> Many fine Czech, Hungarian and Polish filmmakers had
> to stop making films because they were considered
> too
> subversive.
>
> Bela Tarr's finest films date from after communism,
> BTW. Which may or not be relevant. Being freed from
> having to make political comments seems to have
> improved him. Conversely several other filmmakers
> have
> very undistinguished careers since the fall of
> communism. As you say, Krzysztof Kieslowski's French
> films are pretty indifferent.
>
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