Jerzy Skolimowski Retrospective / Kinoteka 2023

09 MARCH - 27 APRIL 2023

JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI IN CONVERSATION

28 Mar, 18:30
BFI Southbank

Defying neat categorisation Jerzy Skolimowski has created a dynamic and provocative body of work that reveals him as one of our foremost cinema artists. As writer, actor, director and sometimes producer he not only engages us with...

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THE SHOUT

Jerzy Skolimowski

28 Mar, 20:45
BFI Southbank

In Skolimowski’s uncanny Robert Graves adaptation, Alan Bates plays a man who claims his shout can kill. Conceived as a Nicolas Roeg project, this eerie adaptation of Robert Graves’ story proved a perfect fit for Skolimowski, thanks to...

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WALKOVER

Jerzy Skolimowski

29 Mar, 18:20
BFI Southbank

A drifting boxer approaches thirty in Jerzy Skolimowski’s second feature. Having completed military service, Andrzej Leszczyc has few achievements to point to aside from a certain flair for boxing, which at least gives him something...

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MOONLIGHTING

Jerzy Skolimowski

29 Mar, 20:45
BFI Southbank

When martial law is declared back home, a Polish builder (Jeremy Irons) decides not to tell his colleagues. Skolimowski rarely tackled overtly political subjects, but the December 1981 declaration of martial law in Poland inspired one...

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HANDS UP!

Jerzy Skolimowski

31 Mar, 20:45
BFI Southbank

Five former colleagues have a surreal reunion in the film that forced Jerzy Skolimowski into exile. Skolimowski’s alter ego Andrzej Leszczyc returns for a final bow as one of five thirtysomething former colleagues whose reunion (taking...

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BARRIER

Jerzy Skolimowski

01 Apr, 18:20
BFI Southbank

Skolimowski’s intoxicatingly inventive masterpiece about a man trying to understand the modern world. A newly-graduated medical student (Nowicki) attempts to make sense of the modern world. Taking the themes of previous films (the...

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EO

Jerzy Skolimowski

01 Apr, 20:50
BFI Southbank

Jerzy Skolimowski’s heart-rending masterpiece about a donkey’s travels across Europe. Very loosely inspired by Robert Bresson’s <i>Au hasard, Balthazar</i> in its abiding theme of the sins of the world visited upon an...

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Dialogue 20-40-60 + LODZ SHORTS

Jerzy Skolimowski

02 Apr, 12:30
BFI Southbank

Experimental feature in which couples from three generations deliver the same dialogue in very different contexts. For this three-part experimental feature, Skolimowski and Czechoslovak directors Peter Solan (Before Tonight is Over)...

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DEEP END

Jerzy Skolimowski

02 Apr, 15:30
BFI Southbank

Jerzy Skolimowski’s masterful dissection of teenage infatuation in a run-down swimming pool. Written by Poles, largely filmed in West Germany (also the source of its famous Can score), but catching the dilapidated feel of...

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LE DÉPART

Jerzy Skolimowski

02 Apr, 18:30
BFI Southbank

Skolimowski’s most ‘New Wave’ film, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as a man dreaming of motor-racing stardom. Skolimowski’s affinity with the French New Wave was at its most apparent in his first non-Polish film, not least because it...

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IDENTIFICATION MARKS: NONE

Jerzy Skolimowski

03 Apr, 21:00
BFI Southbank

Jerzy Skolimowski’s freewheeling debut about a man’s last day before military service. Made at the Łódź Film School, thanks to planning student exercises so they could be combined into a coherent feature, Skolimowski’s debut introduced...

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Outsider and Exile - Panel Discussion Looking at the films of Jerzy Skolimowski

04 Apr, 18:15
BFI Southbank

Join season curator Michael Brooke, along with guest speakers, who will explore the long and varied career of Jerzy Skolimowski. This season introduction event will trace a career that began with the filmmaker being hailed as an...

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THE LIGHTSHIP

Jerzy Skolimowski

08 Apr, 12:15
BFI Southbank

Robert Duvall holds lightship captain Klaus Maria Brandauer hostage, challenging the latter’s pacifism. Brandauer plays the captain of a stationary lightship whose fervently pacifist views are challenged when he and his crew are taken...

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11 MINUTES

Jerzy Skolimowski

16 Apr, 12:30
BFI Southbank

A lot can happen in eleven minutes, dazzlingly shown from multiple viewpoints Skolimowski’s formidable conceptual and technical skills get their most intensive workout here, as initially unconnected stories (an attempted seduction, a...

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FOUR NIGHTS WITH ANNA

Jerzy Skolimowski

23 Apr, 12:40
BFI Southbank

An ex-con forms an unconventional relationship with a neighbour in Skolimowski’s psychological suspense thriller Skolimowski returned to directing after a nearly two-decade hiatus with this quietly unsettling study of a lonely...

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ESSENTIAL KILLING

Jerzy Skolimowski

23 Apr, 18:40
BFI Southbank

Vincent Gallo goes on the run in the dead of winter in Jerzy Skolimowski’s nearly wordless thriller. Mohammed (Gallo) is transported from his sun-seared homeland to a temporary detention centre in wintry Poland, escapes, and then tries...

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