Polish Cinema on DVD

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#801 Post by MichaelB » Mon Jan 31, 2022 7:32 pm

I have an order from Empik that hasn't yet shipped, but I made sure not to exceed a total cost of £130 including postage and packing. (I allowed £5 contingency for exchange rate fluctuations.)

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#802 Post by TMDaines » Tue Feb 01, 2022 5:05 am

Yeah, I did that when I ordered football stickers last summer from Germany. Obviously with Amazon or eBay it is a bit more sophisticated and they take care of everything regardless of order value.

I’ll probably just go for it and get the rest of those Wajdas and some other 70s and 80s Blu-rays:

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#803 Post by GaryC » Tue Feb 08, 2022 3:28 am

The 20th Kinoteka Film Festival in London takes place in London from 9 March to 3 April. Programme here. It seems that the films will mostly be shown as in-person showings at the ICA with some at the Riverside, the Prince Charles and the JW3, the latter venue a new one on me. Some will also be at the Edinburgh Filmhouse and the Closing Gala (Lubitsch's Forbidden Paradise) is at the BFI Southbank. The retrospectives will mostly be online via BFI Player but it's not clear how long they'll be available for and if available outside the UK (I suspect not). I don't know yet to what extent I can get to in-person screenings but the online stuff is a definite possibility, as there are a few there I haven't seen before.

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#804 Post by Calvin » Sat Apr 09, 2022 7:10 am

Some of the Polish Cinema Classics line are as low as 19,99 zloty at DVDMax

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#805 Post by MichaelB » Sat Apr 09, 2022 12:02 pm

MichaelB wrote:
Mon Jan 31, 2022 7:32 pm
I have an order from Empik that hasn't yet shipped, but I made sure not to exceed a total cost of £130 including postage and packing. (I allowed £5 contingency for exchange rate fluctuations.)
To update this post, I've made two orders from Empik and DVDMax this year, in each case coming in at roughly £130 as per the exchange rate on the day, and both were delivered with no complications or additional charges.

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#806 Post by djvaso » Sun Apr 10, 2022 4:44 pm

Calvin wrote:
Sat Apr 09, 2022 7:10 am
Some of the Polish Cinema Classics line are as low as 19,99 zloty at DVDMax
Unfortunately, now only TNT express delivery to my country is available and the price is PLN 171.04 :x for four discs.

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#807 Post by Calvin » Fri Jun 03, 2022 1:08 pm

I know the service was mentioned on the previous page, but I've just discovered 35mm.online and I was surprised to find how many restorations are available to view with English subtitles - for free! Many of which are unavailable on disc, such as The Ring with a Crowned Eagle (Wajda), Barrier (Skolimowski), and The Last Stage (Jakubowska)

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#808 Post by DarkImbecile » Tue Jul 19, 2022 4:36 pm

200+ Polish films (including features by Kieslowski and Wajda) made available for free with English subtitles on 35mm.online as part of partnership with the Poland Film Institute

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#809 Post by Stefan Andersson » Mon Mar 06, 2023 5:07 pm

Restored Polish films on Polish Bluray:
http://rekonstrukcje.eu/blu-ray.html#
Updated Sept. 1, 2022

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#810 Post by TMDaines » Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:33 am

Anyone have an issue with the Blu-ray for Życie Rodzinne? Had two copies of the disc now and both can't be read properly by two different Blu-ray drives and both cannot progress past an early point in the film.

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#811 Post by Aunt Peg » Sat Apr 01, 2023 3:29 am

TMDaines wrote:
Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:33 am
Anyone have an issue with the Blu-ray for Życie Rodzinne? Had two copies of the disc now and both can't be read properly by two different Blu-ray drives and both cannot progress past an early point in the film.
I purchased the disc a few months ago and whilst I haven't watched the disc yet I did do a chapter to chapter run through the film without any issues.

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#812 Post by swo17 » Sat Apr 01, 2023 10:53 pm

TMDaines wrote:
Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:33 am
Anyone have an issue with the Blu-ray for Życie Rodzinne? Had two copies of the disc now and both can't be read properly by two different Blu-ray drives and both cannot progress past an early point in the film.
My copy plays fine all the way through, though on one player the menu screen doesn't include any options that would allow you to start playing the film. Other Polish Blu-rays from this line have had the same issue

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#813 Post by TMDaines » Tue Apr 04, 2023 3:32 pm

Aunt Peg wrote:
Sat Apr 01, 2023 3:29 am
TMDaines wrote:
Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:33 am
Anyone have an issue with the Blu-ray for Życie Rodzinne? Had two copies of the disc now and both can't be read properly by two different Blu-ray drives and both cannot progress past an early point in the film.
I purchased the disc a few months ago and whilst I haven't watched the disc yet I did do a chapter to chapter run through the film without any issues.
Chapter skips probably won’t catch it. Both discs I have have issues at different points when the film just dies.

Got a 3rd copy today and this one dies in the first minute. 1st disc was in the opening delayed credits sequence when the title card appears.

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#814 Post by Aunt Peg » Wed Apr 05, 2023 10:16 am

That doesn't sound good at all.

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#815 Post by Kauno » Wed May 24, 2023 1:19 am

Are there stores selling DVDs and Blu-rays in Gdańsk? I didn't find any the last time I was there...

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#816 Post by L.A. » Mon Jun 05, 2023 7:01 pm

Test Pilota Pirxa (1979) has a Blu-ray from Ostalgica with English subtitles and choice of Polish or Russian soundtracks apparently. 🤔

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#817 Post by Stefan Andersson » Wed Jun 14, 2023 3:10 pm

Artus Films releasing Les Chevaliers Teutoniques (Aleksander Ford, 1960) in 2K:
https://artusfilms.com/

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#818 Post by Stefan Andersson » Tue Oct 31, 2023 3:10 pm

Upcoming: "Wojciech Jerzy Has Antologia, 16 blurays + a 312-p. book:
https://www.facebook.com/DIFactory.post ... cale=it_IT

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#819 Post by MichaelB » Tue Oct 31, 2023 7:55 pm

Going from the typeface on the spine, this is from the same people that produced the Wajda, Kieślowski and Polanski anthologies. I bought the Wajda DVD box after establishing that it was 100% English-friendly (I already had a lot of the films, but the box had more recent restorations and extensive extras, although most of the features have since been replaced with Polish Blu-rays), but passed on the Kieślowski box as I had virtually all of its contents already - and in quite a few cases on Blu-ray. (That box was also DVD-only.) And while the Polanski box was Blu-ray, it was also eye-wateringly expensive.

I fear that the Has box will be as well, but at least the contents will be more enticing - thus far, I've only got three of his films in high-def, and most of the others I don't even have with English subtitles.

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#820 Post by Stefan Andersson » Fri Nov 03, 2023 1:40 pm

The DI Factory Wojciech Has box has a 245 euro price tag:
https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... &start=675 - see post Nov. 1 by djvaso

English and French subs according to CEO Jedrzej Sablinski of DI Factory, quoted in djvaso´s post Oct. 31 here (at least I think this pertains to the Has box, as djvaso wrote the initial post on the Has box, the post with the box cover image)
https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... &start=675

Initially sold through the di-factory.com site:
https://di-factory.com/en#second

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#821 Post by djvaso » Mon Nov 06, 2023 6:57 am

@Stefan Andersson
Thanks.

The HAS Anthology includes the following film titles:
1) Pętla (The Noose) 1958
2) Pożegnania (Lydia Ate the Apple) 1958
3) Wspólny pokój (One Room Tenants) 1960
4) Rozstanie (Goodbye to the Past) 1961
5) Złoto (Gold Dreams) 1962
6) Jak być kochaną (How to Be Loved) 1963
7) Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie (The Saragossa Manuscript) 1965
8 ) Szyfry (The Codes) 1966
9) Lalka (The Doll) 1968
10) Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą (The Hourglass Sanatorium) 1973
11) Nieciekawa historia (An Uneventful Story) 1983
12) Osobisty pamiętnik grzesznika przez niego samego pisany (Memoirs of a Sinner) 1986
13) Pismak (Write and Fight) 1985
14) Niezwykła podróż Baltazara Kobera (The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober) 1988

The short films:
1) 1 Ulica Brzozowa
2) Harmonia
3) Parowóz PT47
4) Moje miasto
5) Pierwszy plon
6) Scentralizowana kontrola przebiegu produkcji (Cukier)
7) Harcerze na zlocie
8 ) Karmik Jankowy
9) Zielarze z Kamiennej Doliny
10) Przegląd kulturalny 2/53
11) Nasz Zespół

Source

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#822 Post by Stefan Andersson » Mon Nov 06, 2023 9:43 am

djvaso wrote:
Mon Nov 06, 2023 6:57 am
@Stefan Andersson
Thanks.

The HAS Anthology includes the following film titles:
1) Pętla (The Noose) 1958
2) Pożegnania (Lydia Ate the Apple) 1958
3) Wspólny pokój (One Room Tenants) 1960
4) Rozstanie (Goodbye to the Past) 1961
5) Złoto (Gold Dreams) 1962
6) Jak być kochaną (How to Be Loved) 1963
7) Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie (The Saragossa Manuscript) 1965
8 ) Szyfry (The Codes) 1966
9) Lalka (The Doll) 1968
10) Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą (The Hourglass Sanatorium) 1973
11) Nieciekawa historia (An Uneventful Story) 1983
12) Osobisty pamiętnik grzesznika przez niego samego pisany (Memoirs of a Sinner) 1986
13) Pismak (Write and Fight) 1985
14) Niezwykła podróż Baltazara Kobera (The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober) 1988

The short films:
1) 1 Ulica Brzozowa
2) Harmonia
3) Parowóz PT47
4) Moje miasto
5) Pierwszy plon
6) Scentralizowana kontrola przebiegu produkcji (Cukier)
7) Harcerze na zlocie
8 ) Karmik Jankowy
9) Zielarze z Kamiennej Doliny
10) Przegląd kulturalny 2/53
11) Nasz Zespół

Source
Hi djvaso!
Thank you very much for this info!

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#823 Post by MichaelB » Mon Nov 06, 2023 10:43 am

Most of the shorts are Socialist Realist propaganda "documentaries" from the first half of the 1950s, which all Polish filmmakers had to make in order to continue working - there's a rather rueful in-joke in Man of Marble in which Andrzej Wajda gives himself an onscreen credit as the assistant director of the fictitious Socialist Realist documentary about steelworks that Krystyna Janda is investigating, because of course he had to work on the real thing, as did Has, Andrzej Munk and their various contemporaries. I've seen quite a few of the Has shorts, and I remember a rather charming one about folk ensembles, but aside from Brzozowa Street and Harmonia they're not exactly films d'auteur.

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#824 Post by Peacock » Mon Nov 06, 2023 3:24 pm

MichaelB wrote:
Mon Nov 06, 2023 10:43 am
I remember a rather charming one about folk ensembles
I’m assuming this is Pierwszy Plon?

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Re: Polish Cinema on DVD

#825 Post by MichaelB » Tue Nov 21, 2023 7:39 am

I have another info-nugget about the Has box; it seems that the book is going to be fully bilingual in Polish and English, with the following writers attached to the following films/topics:

Annette Insdorf - introduction
Tadeusz Lubelski - The Noose (Pętla, 1957)
Marcin Bortkiewicz - Farewells (Pożegnania, 1958)
Miłosz Stelmach - One-Room Tenants (Wspólny pokój, 1959)
Katarzyna Wajda - Goodbye to the Past (Rozstanie, 1960)
Jakub Socha - Gold Dreams (Złoto, 1961)
Katarzyna Taras - How To Be Loved (Jak być kochaną, 1962)
Tomasz Kolankiewicz - The Saragossa Manuscript (Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie, 1964)
Malgorzata Burzynska-Keller - The Codes (Szyfry, 1966)
Klara Cykorz - The Doll (Lalka, 1969)
Adriana Prodeus - The Hourglass Sanatorium (Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą, 1973)
Monika Talarczyk - An Uneventful Story (Nieciekawa historia, 1982)
Jakub Majmurek - Write and Fight (Pismak, 1984)
dr hab. Iwona Kurz - Memoirs of a Sinner (Osobisty pamiętnik grzesznika przez niego samego spisany, 1985)
Renata and Grzegorz Kędzierscy - The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober (Niezwykła podróż Baltazara Kobera, 1988)
Emil Sowiński - the short films
Tadeusz Lubelski - unrealised projects

Oh, and it's a limited edition of 700 copies.

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