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Michał Oleszczyk

Michal Oleszczyk is a script consultant and critic, and teaches film at the University of Warsaw. He wrote the first Polish monograph of Terence Davies, and his translation of J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum's Midnight Movies was published in 2011.

For Ellen

Sundance Film Festival 2012: For Ellen and The House I Live In

by Michał Oleszczyk
January 23, 2012

Jarecki’s new documentary is a rousingly aching piece of social analysis and commentary.

Sundance Film Festival 2012: Simon Killer

Sundance Film Festival 2012: Antonio Campos’s Simon Killer

by Michał Oleszczyk
January 22, 2012

Simon Killer feels both carefully studied and willfully unfocused.

Sick Joke: We Need to Talk About Kevin

Sick Joke: Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin

by Michał Oleszczyk
December 9, 2011

Ramsay puts the art-house crowd though a titillating wringer in her contraption-like parental-dread thriller.

Steep Uphill Climb: Speaking with Kimberly Reed, Director of Prodigal Sons

Steep Uphill Climb: Speaking with Kimberly Reed, Director of Prodigal Sons

by Michał Oleszczyk
July 20, 2010

Reed speaks about Prodigal Sons and its complexities, cinematic, familial, and otherwise.

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