This week, Lara Alonso Corona talks to Culture.PL editor and Stories from the Eastern West podcast presenter Adam Żuławski about his grandfather Jerzy Żuławski’s science fiction series The Lunar Trilogy and On the Silver Globe, the film adaptation directed by another family member, Andrzej Żuławski and first shown in 1988, and showing in London as part of Kinoteka – the London Polish Film Festival. They also discuss many of Andrzej Żuławski’s other films, the Young Poland modernist movement, and the challenges of making cinema in Communist Poland.
SELECTED REFERENCES
Blinded by the Lights (TV series, 2018) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6520930/
Boris Godunov (dir. Sergei Bondarchuk, 1986) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Godunov_(1986_film)
Braindead (dir. Peter Jackson, 1992) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/
Cosmos (dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 2015) – http://cinema-scope.com/cinema-scope-online/bleurghing-the-unspeakable-a-stroll-through-andrzej-zulawskis-cosmos/
DAVIES, GLIŃSKI & ŻUŁAWSKI, Quarks, Elephants & Pierogi: Poland in 100 Words (2019) – https://culture.pl/en/work/quarks-elephants-pierogi-poland-in-100-words-mikolaj-glinski-matthew-davis-adam-zulawski
Philip K. Dick
Hard to be a God (dir. Aleksei German, 2013) – https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/review-hard-be-god
FRANK HERBERT, Dune (1965) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)
Stanisław Lem – https://culture.pl/en/artist/stanislaw-lem
Bronisław Malinowski – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronisław_Malinowski
On the Silver Globe (dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 1988) – https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/on-the-silver-globe-2016
Possession (dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 1981) – https://www.timeout.com/london/film/possession-1981
Solaris (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1971)
Stories from the Eastern West (podcast) – https://culture.pl/en/stories-from-the-eastern-west
Jules Verne
H. G. Wells
STANISŁAW WYSPIAŃSKI, The Wedding (1901) – https://culture.pl/en/artist/stanislaw-wyspianski
Young Poland – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Poland
JERZY ŻUŁAWSKI, The Lunar Trilogy (1901-11) – http://translatingmarek.com/the-moon-landings-and-the-prophecies-of-jerzy-zulawski-polands-hg-wells-1969
