Kieslowski

Kieslowski opened all three movies of his “Three Colours” trilogy with a cross cut of dramatic action and a scene of modern technology. In this film, that technology is the airport baggage system and the conveyor belts that take passenger luggage from the airport to the plane cargo hold. The

If you’re wondering what writing project is next for me now that the Dekalog is complete, that’s easy — it’s on to the second part of Kieslowski’s Three Colours trilogy, White. And while I have not been a big fan of this movie, I have some good

The one risk of doing at scene-by-scene analysis of the Dekalog is that it can distract from the atmospheric power of the series. There are elements of Kieslowski’s masterpiece that have nothing to do with individual camera shots or even the stories being told. After awhile, just hearing the

Every story is either about love or death. Nothing else in life can keep our attention. Stories of death are focused on violence and domination. The most violent channel on cable has always been CNBC because there’s nothing more violent than money. We like to believe that our own

It all comes crashing down for the brothers. Scenes of Jerzy’s surgery are juxtaposed with something else we can’t figure out at first — a bar being pried loose with a blowtorch. Then back to the surgery … and then we see someone petting their large black (apparently fairly docile)

We’ve entered the final weekend of my Dekalog series. This will be a short essay because there’s very little story to tell in this segment, it just moves the plot The brothers meet with the stamp broker. He asks them if they’ve become aware of the Austrian