The Polish Film Festival, which is being presented by the Film Center and the Polish Museum of America, runs from Saturday, September 19, through Monday, September 28. Screenings will be at the Copernicus Cultural & Civic Center, 5216 W. Lawrence, and at the Film Center, Art Institute, Columbus Drive at Jackson. Tickets are $5; festival passes are available for $40 (for Film Center screenings) and $45 (for Copernicus Center screenings). For more information call 384-3352 or 443-3737.
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Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1991 film, set in Warsaw in 1939, stars Crispin Glover as a 30-year-old who suddenly starts being treated by those around him–his former professor, a nymphet, a female cousin–as if he had regressed back to childhood. Closer to a curiosity than to a success–the English dialogue and the period Polish setting make for an odd mesh at times–but a curiosity by Skolimowski certainly isn’t like anyone else’s. On the same program, Henryk Dederko’s documentary short Incognito (1988). (Film Center, 4:00)
The Tomb
By the River Nowhere
Janusz Gajos stars in this drama set in Vienna in 1791 about an opportunistic teenager who loses his innocence in the castle of a wealthy inventor; directed by Marcin Ziebinski. To be shown with Mariusz Grzegorzek’s short Krakatau (1986). (Film Center, 6:00)
Like Green Card and the earlier and better Paper Wedding, this feature by Krzysztof Lang concerns a marriage that exists for immigration purposes–in this case, between a Polish woman and a British man; with Joanna Trzepiecinska, Richard Hawley, and David Horovitch (1991). On the same program, Wladyslaw Wasilewski’s short Wooden Churches (1976). (Copernicus Center, 6:45)
See listing under Sunday, September 20. (Copernicus Center, 6:4 5)
