The untimely death of the outstanding Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski, aged 54, has dealt a huge blow to European cinema. Although he had only come into worldwide prominence in the last few years ...

Starting with 1985’s No End, composer Zbigniew Preisner served as one of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s closest collaborators — he worked on all of the director’s films until Kieslowski’s death in 1996, with ...

“No End,” a film based in Poland, begins with a shot of a funeral from up above. An agglomeration of candles and people clad in black and flowers fill the frame from end to end. Someone has obviously ...

Introducing a Krzysztof Kieslowski film on television a few years ago, Lindsay Anderson commented that what he most associated with Polish cinema was a quality of seriousness. No one, he added, better ...

No End is a film by Krzysztof Kieślowski from 1984. At the time of its premiere, the film was criticized by all sides: the communist authorities of Poland accused the director of antisocialist ...

No other Polish director has found as many disciples and followers in international cinema as Krzysztof Kieślowski, nor has any other director attained as many tribute films which cause so many ...

Krzysztof Kieslowski is in top form, full of beans, raring to go. He sits in a pool of cigarette smoke, inhales with relish and scrubs out his past. 'It's enough. It's with pleasure that I'm putting ...

The eighth part of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s famous 1989 TV series. As the title suggests, the starting point this time is the eighth commandment – ‘Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy ...

The influential Polish art-house filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski would have turned 75 on June 27. By exploring philosophical issues through complex narrative structures, he managed to gain a wide ...

Starting with 1985’s No End, composer Zbigniew Preisner served as one of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s closest collaborators — he worked on all of the director’s films until Kieslowski’s death in 1996, with ...