Currently On Sale On Sale: 2009 Archive On Sale: 2008 Archive Classic Scorsese MET Live: Thaïs Roosevelt SE: Revolutionary Road SE: The Sky Crawlers SE: Making The Wrestler CO: The Magic Flute Spanish Cinema Now Cámara Spanish Experimental YFF: Short Cuts SE: Joseph Stiglitz SE: Secret...Grain Problem Child FCS: Les idoles MET Live: La Damnation GS: Docks of NY SE: Sinatra... SE: Puccini.... Manny Farber IN: Be Like Others YFF: Slumdog... MET Live: Dr Atomic Gr. Scr.: Panel Gr. Scr.: Farming... NYC Opera: Ivan... FCS: Changeling YFF: The man who... FCS: Che! Jon Jost Andrzej Wajda Program Overview Ashes Ashes and Diamonds The Birch Wood Chronicle of... The Conductor Danton Everything for Sale Gates...cancelled A Generation Holy Week Hunting Flies Innocent Sorcerers Kanal Katyn Korczak Landscape After Battle The Lesson of... Lotna A Love in Germany The Maids of Wilko Man of Iron Man of Marble Miss Nobody Nastasya Pan Tadeusz Pilate and Others The Possessed The Promised Land The Revenge The Ring with... Rough Treatment, Samson The Shadow Line Siberian Lady... The Wedding IN: Ice People MET Live: Salome Avant-Garde Oshima YFF: Sonetaula MET Live: Gala FCS: The Other Gr. Scr.: Scarred Lands Latinbeat 08 Charlton Heston FCS: Captain Ahab Robert Gavaldón Never Apologize Revolutionary Romantic YFF: L.I.E. IN: Judge & General FCS: The Deal Kawakita Gr. Scr.: Fields of Fuel Dominique Delouche SE: Four Hands GS: The Cat and... YFF: American Teen Slovenian Cinema SE: Magic Lantern William Holden SE: Jazz on a... Satoshi Kon IN: Critical Condition HRW Collection Human Rights Watch Gr. Scr.: Biùtiful... New Italian Cinema YFF: Judy Berlin Israel @ 60 Charles Boyer Gr. Scr.: Nausicaä Jennifer Jones SE: Robert Frank SE: Jerry Schatzberg SE: Joachim Trier 1968: Intl. Perspective Romanian Cinema Met: La Fille du Régiment SE: Ned Rorem GS: The Kid Brother YFF: Le Boucher Gr. Scr.: Mountaintop... IN: Phyllis and Harold NYAFF 2008 SE: Dreams... SE: On the Street Met: La Bohème ND/NF Classics 2008 Gr. Scr.: Garbage... Met: Tristan und Isolde Thorold Dickinson Met: Peter Grimes Infernal Machines Rendez-Vous 2008 Green Screens: Flow:... Met: Manon Lescaut YFF: Harold and Maude Film Comment Selects IN: From the Ground Up SE: Two Laws GS: Chang: A Story... Envisioning Russia YFF: The Ice Storm NYJFF 2008 Celebrate Alex Corti NYJFF JM Screens Met: Macbeth SE: City of Men DOC 2008 Met: Hänsel and Gretel On Sale: 2007 Archive On Sale: 2006 Archive On Sale: 2005 Archive Archive 2005 - To April Archive 2004 - WRT Archive 2003 - WRT Archive 2002 - WRT Archive 2001 - WRT Archive 2000 - WRT Archive 1999 - WRT Archive 1998 - WRT Archive 1997 - WRT Archive 1996 - WRT

Truth or Dare: The Films of Andrzej Wajda October 17 – November 13, 2008 “The good Lord gave the director two eyes — one to look into the camera, the other to be alert to everything that is going on around him.” — Andrzej Wajda “Not only Poland’s greatest filmmaker but one who, throughout his long career, has demonstrated a remarkable knack for making movies that double as political events...The most complete retrospective an American institution has ever given the 82-year-old director. It opens with characteristic Wajda brio: First day’s screenings include Wajda’s 1954 debut, provocatively titled A Generation; his 1958 triumph Ashes and Diamonds (the greatest of all ‘youth films,’ a game-changer not only for Polish cinema but for national film industries throughout Eastern Europe)” ” – J. Hoberman, The Village Voice Read more... “YOU NEVER KNOW QUITE WHAT TO EXPECT FROM A WAJDA PICTURE… The only thing, perhaps, that has prevented Mr. Wajda from becoming the sort of art-household name that Fellini and Bergman and Antonioni became is that his style, unlike those of his more famous contemporaries, is changeable, unsettled, hard to define.” - Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times Read more... “Loooong overdue for a major retrospective, and Walter Reade is happy to oblige.” – Time Out New York “A politically unflinching body of work that’s something like a contemporary and retroactive history-in-progress of the Polish nation.” – The L magazine We’re honored to be able to present what will be far and away the most complete retrospective of Wajda’s work ever mounted in the United States, and we hope to welcome the Academy-honored director to the Walter Reade Theater for the opening weekend of this historic overview. Wajda was only 13 years old when World War II broke out. His father, a former officer in the Polish Army, was called up to lead a cavalry regiment. A few months later, he was rounded up along with thousands of other Polish soldiers and citizens and murdered by the Soviet Army in the Katyn forest—an event denied by the Soviets and, even more cruelly, by the Polish Communist government for decades. Growing up with the knowledge that his father had been murdered yet forbidden from speaking openly about the circumstances had a profound impact on Wajda, and after attending the newly-founded Lodz Film and Theater School, he developed a filmography that constitutes, quite simply, one of the great legacies of world cinema. No single visual style or strategy characterizes his films: His early work often employed intricately illuminated deep spaces, while his work in the ’70s featured a looser, more documentary feel. When Socialist Realism, the Stalinist aesthetic of exemplary working class heroes and didactic narratives, was the order of the day, Wajda’s films served as alternative or counter-histories to the officially sanctioned versions of events. As we move away from the fog of the Cold War, his films seem less dependent on the specifics of the political or historical issues they address, becoming meditations on concepts such as the price of individualism, one’s duty towards others, and the meaning of freedom. Close artistic collaborators, especially actors Zbigniew Cybulski, Daniel Olbrychski, Andrzej Seweryn, Wojciech Pszoniak and Krystyna Janda, and screenwriters Jerzy Andrzejewski, Aleksander Scibor-Rylski and Agnieszka Holland often did their finest work under his direction. And several of his films, including the marvelous Ashes and Diamonds, which established him as a major international artist after only three features, are among cinema’s unquestionable masterpieces. Click on Program Overview for a listing of films in the series. Click on Calendar to view the schedule and purchase tickets online. Series Pass ($40 public/$30 Film Society member) admits one person to five titles in a series. Available only at the Walter Reade Theater box office (cash only transactions); may not be combined with any other ticket offer. Individual screening tickets subject to availability. Truth or Dare: The Films of Andrzej Wajda is organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in collaboration with the Polish Cultural Institute of New York, the Polish National Film Archive, and the Polish Film Institute. Special thanks to Monika Fabijanska, Maciej Karpinski, Tadeusz Kowalski, Annette Insdorf and Mr. Andrzej Wajda. Thanks to the Polish National Film Archive for the use of many of the photos.