Dan Conley’s Writing Projects

The Criterion BluRay of The Dekalog includes an interview of Hanna Krall, a Polish journalist and chronicler of Holocaust survivor stories. There’s a wonderful moment in that interview where Krall tells how she wrote to Kieslowski after the “Three Colours” series and said that the people she knows in

I have spent much of the day rewatching the entire Dekalog. This is after a copy of the published screenplays for the series arrived yesterday, which gives me another resource to compare against for these essays. In reading a great deal recently about the series, Kieslowski mentioned that he liked

Before jumping into the conclusion of episode 2 of The Dekalog, I need to return to a matter of controversy. The second commandment is about the worshipping of false idols -- graven images. But if you do a Google search about the topic of episode two, everyone concludes that this

Dorota arrives at the hospital, where a nurse tells her that the doctor has made an exception -- presumably to give her a status update on her husband. I would hope that partners would have the right to daily visitations at this hellish hospital, but who knows. As Dorota is

I noted in the first episode of the Dekalog a silent watcher. In that episode, he seemed to be a homeless man. He sat next to the pond with his dog, who then froze to death. At the conclusion of the episode, he had disappeared. Since we did not see

The doctor is able to slip Dorota for a at least a few minutes, long enough to get into his apartment and to see a note from his housekeeper that says she repotted the cactus and received some response “from the advert.” So apparently he was circling some kind of