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Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski
Annette Insdorf
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Paperback. "First published in 1999 by Talk Miramax Books." Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941 – 1996) is widely recognised as one of the greatest filmmakers of the latter half of the twentieth century. Beginning as a documentarian who took on controversial subjects in communist Poland in the 1960’s and 70’s, Kieslowski gained an international reputation with his later narrative films The Double Life of Veronique and the Three Colours trilogy (Blue, White, and Red). He also made the Decalogue, a celebrated series for Polish television.
The first comprehensive analysis of Kieslowski’s entire body of work to be published in English, Annette Insdorf’s book still stands as the best introduction ... Read more
Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941 – 1996) is widely recognised as one of the greatest filmmakers of the latter half of the twentieth century. Beginning as a documentarian who took on controversial subjects in communist Poland in the 1960’s and 70’s, Kieslowski gained an international reputation with his later narrative films The Double Life of Veronique and the Three Colours trilogy (Blue, White, and Red). He also made the Decalogue, a celebrated series for Polish television.
The first comprehensive analysis of Kieslowski’s entire body of work to be published in English, Annette Insdorf’s book still stands as the best introduction ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810129481
SKU
V9780810129481
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About Annette Insdorf
Annette Insdorf is a professor in the Graduate Film Division of Columbia University’s School of the Arts and director of Undergraduate Film Studies. She is the author of Philip Kaufman (2012), François Truffaut (1994), and Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust (1983).
Reviews for Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski
“An invaluable introduction to one of the greatest of all filmmakers.” —Roger Ebert “Perceptive, empathetic, enigmatic, Krzysztof Kieslowski was perhaps the great filmmaker of our time, and in Annette Insdorf—who knew him, translated for him, and thoroughly understands his work—he has been rewarded with a writer who couldn’t be better suited . . .” —Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times ... Read more