Kino przestronnego kadru

• Authors: Piotr Pławuszewski

Title variants

EN

Cinema of a large frame

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Cinema of a large frame   The first edition of American Film Festival took place in Wrocław (20-24/11/2010) and became a great opportunity to watch both the classic and the latest movies made by the American filmmakers. The article Kino przestronnego kadru (Cinema of a large frame) focuses on the festival documentary section. From among the titles that are mentioned, a special author’s attention is dedicated to two movies: And Everything Is Going Fine (directed by Steven Soderbergh, 2010; a haunting picture of life and death of Spalding Gray, American writer and performer of self-written monologues) and Two Escobars (directed by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist, 2010; a story about the Colombian mafia, soccer, drugs, heroes, bandits and much more). Despite many differences beetwen them, each represents a fine art of making remarkable and moving documentaries and for sure it’s worth interest.

EN

  The first edition of American Film Festival took place in Wrocław (20-24/11/2010) and became a great opportunity to watch both the classic and the latest movies made by the American filmmakers. The article Kino przestronnego kadru (Cinema of a large frame) focuses on the festival documentary section. From among the titles that are mentioned, a special author’s attention is dedicated to two movies: And Everything Is Going Fine (directed by Steven Soderbergh, 2010; a haunting picture of life and death of Spalding Gray, American writer and performer of self-written monologues) and Two Escobars (directed by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist, 2010; a story about the Colombian mafia, soccer, drugs, heroes, bandits and much more). Despite many differences beetwen them, each represents a fine art of making remarkable and moving documentaries and for sure it’s worth interest.

Keywords

PL

American Film Festival; documentary; movie; Escobar; Spalding Gray; Wroclaw; cinema; competition; a large frame

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 17-18
• Pages: 231-235

Dates

published

2011-01-13

Contributors

author

Piotr Pławuszewski

• Katedra Filmu, Telewizji i Nowych Mediów UAM

References

• S. Gray, Potwór w pudle, przeł. A. Taborska, Warszawa 2006.

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/i.2011.17.18.13