Re: RIP Andrzej Żuławski, director of the insanely great Possession

[Mark Thibodeau]

Three magnificent films, absolutely. Silver Globe's insane production
history alone is epic.

J

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Momò Nin <momonin at gmail.com> wrote:

> why:
> reading and watching from the dead people is always interesting? :)
>
> yes The Devil and On the Silver Globe is very good haha
>
> On 21 February 2016 at 23:41, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The Devil and On the Silver Globe are also outstanding.
>>
>> rich
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 6:17 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> And you know I had to copy and paste that name.
>>>
>>> "After losing his right to work in Poland at the end of the 1970s and
>>> his marriage to Małgorzata Braunek fell apart, he went to New York
>>> with the aim of committing suicide. Andy Warhol talked him out of it
>>> and within ten days, in 1981, Żuławski wrote the screenplay for
>>> Possession – the film for which he is best known, especially in the
>>> US. A portrait of a marriage in painful dissolution, 'Possession is a
>>> cry, a long howl from the depths of the soul, which gets relieved -
>>> when least expected - as a result of peace and quiet' says cinema
>>> expert Max Tessier. As Wall Street Journal's Kristin M. Jones puts it,
>>> 'Like movies by David Lynch or Roman Polański, Mr. Żuławski's work
>>> addresses love, madness and troubled relationships, but his approach
>>> to storytelling and his cosmology of personal, political and biblical
>>> allusions are all his own.' His fondness for the use of recurring
>>> themes, details and doppelgangers across multiple films as well as
>>> sudden intrusions of humor in the most horrific scenes becomes very
>>> apparent in Possession."
>>>
>>> http://culture.pl/en/artist/andrzej-zulawski
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