Word: krzysztof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With "Blue," Krzysztof Kieslowski begins his film trilogy "Three Colors," with "White" and "Red" still to come. Meant to symbolize the Revolutionary cry for "liberty, equality and fraternity," this film stays close to its French origins with the existential search for identity in a world turned upside down...
...window, she listens to the phone ring; in a moment of high agitation she may drag on a Gauloise. A vision of dyspeptic distress, she is a modernist pinup for the monastic voyeur behind the camera. When the woman is lovely, pouty Juliette Binoche, and the director is Krzysztof Kieslowski, the picture can become the X ray of anguish: not stargazing but soul gazing...
...exclude Russia." Among the few remaining advocates of early enlargement are the hapless Central European countries with better reasons than Russia to fear for their security. Yeltsin's flip-flop caused acute anxiety in Warsaw, Prague and Budapest. "Poland's striving toward NATO is irreversible," said Foreign Minister Krzysztof Skubiszewski. "We are against placing Poland in the gray zone between East and West...
...Fantasia quartet of 1991. The symphony, so typically "modern" in its harsh sonorities and deliberate absence of melodic appeal, is not much different from what Boulez and others in Western Europe were doing at about the same time; the Choros, meanwhile, is clearly influenced by Gorecki's countryman Krzysztof Penderecki, notably by the Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima...
...Krzysztof Bien, economics editor of the Warsaw daily Rzeczpospolita...