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...scene, a way to bring films in their original languages to Paris neighborhoods." Today, an average of 82,000 Parisians visit an MK2 outlet each week. MK2 also produces and distributes films, championing filmmakers like German-born Austrian Michael Haneke (The Piano Teacher) and the late Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski (the Three Colors trilogy: Blue, White and Red). MK2 also produces DVDs of the oeuvres of veterans like Chabrol and Resnais, with comprehensive bonus features, for international distribution. The schedules for each cinema are tailored to its neighborhood, with individual managers selecting movies for reprises and special screenings. Showing...
...were the people who hadn't answered these pleas for a little human contact. The director touches the viewer as well. He has a sense of the winsomeness of voyeuristic obsession, and the small, spare elegances of camera placement, almost worthy of the late, great Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski...
...DECALOGUE A decade ago, Krzysztof Kieslowski made his 10-part cycle of short films, which dramatize the Ten Commandments in modern Poland. In their scope, wit, power and ethical poignancy, they stand even taller today. The series, available in some video stores, still has not achieved U.S. release--a high crime against high artistry...
...less comforting (read Republican) vision, Clinton can examine the "Decalogue", Krzysztof Kieslowski's ten-hour, brilliantly dark retelling of each of the commandments. Poland never looked more beautiful, even if watching all ten earnest hours seems more than a little dutiful. But -- careful, Bill -- don't look to close, not at a series that has segments with titles like "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery...
...same impact on a viewer, for this film is Kieslowski's confession of the awful power in watching people--which is exactly what movies are. Now audiences have the precious opportunity to watch a great filmmaker watching...