Dzieje grzechu
Dzieje grzechu (1975) is Walerian Borowczyk’s film adaptation of Stefan Żeromski’s novel of the same name. Both the film and the novel chart Ewa Pobratynska’s (Grażyna Długołęcka) descent in nineteenth… Read more »
Dzieje grzechu (1975) is Walerian Borowczyk’s film adaptation of Stefan Żeromski’s novel of the same name. Both the film and the novel chart Ewa Pobratynska’s (Grażyna Długołęcka) descent in nineteenth… Read more »
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novel of dichotomies wherein each aspect of the book throws its counterparts into stark relief. Although novelist Robert Louis Stevenson’s… Read more »
Walerian Borowczyk’s erotic films all typically engage in an aesthetic discourse with nineteenth century texts, often as a means of examining the consistencies of our cultures’ fetishes. Borowczyk’s approach to… Read more »
Walerian Borowczyk’s La marge (1976) unites Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro with Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel. But this isn’t the typical Euro-erotica that these stars or this director is known for…. Read more »
Walerian Borowczyk’s Blanche (1971) might be the most authentically medieval film that I have ever seen. Borowczyk’s production design is authentic and detailed, his framing intentionally recalls the illuminated manuscripts… Read more »
This piece originally appeared on a different blog in 2015. At the time the Film Society Of Lincoln Center was hosting a retrospective of Borowczyk’s work. Between April 2nd and… Read more »