[HN Gopher] Thousands of classic Polish films, etc. made availab...
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Thousands of classic Polish films, etc. made available for free
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Author : danielam
Score : 283 points
Date : 2022-07-20 13:55 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| lizardactivist wrote:
| We've become so hypnotized and hyped up by spandex-clad super-
| heroes with bad acting and snappy, pretentious dialogues that
| we've forgotten what real film and art is like.
| lnsru wrote:
| Maybe overworked and tired population needs spandex instead of
| Tarkovsky's movies. After 1,5 hours commuting and 9,5 hours in
| the office I prefer Netflix' Red Notice over Stalker. And I
| guess I am not the only one.
|
| On the other hand as non native Polish speaker I will enjoy
| some evening with some great movie recommended in this thread.
| crispyambulance wrote:
| > After 1,5 hours commuting and 9,5 hours in the office I
| prefer Netflix' ...
|
| I can appreciate that point of view. It's really a matter of
| what you're receptive to at any given moment.
|
| Keep in mind, however, that Tarkovsky and other innovative
| filmmakers from the Iron Curtain era literally risked their
| career every time they made a film. They had something to say
| and took great pains to do it. It just goes to show that
| there's really no excuse for the film industry to release so
| much slop when they got unimaginable resources at their
| disposal.
| badpun wrote:
| Try some movies by Andrzej Wajda, he's one of the most
| accessible directors (while still being great), so it might
| work well in the post-work time slot. For example "Man of
| Marble" (https://35mm.online/vod/fabula/czlowiek-z-
| marmuru). It's about creating myths of superhuman workers
| in the Stalinist times to get people to work more/harder.
| myth_drannon wrote:
| Not sure about the other filmmakers but Tarkovsky was
| pretty much the establishment, a token avant garde cinema
| in a sea of state propaganda movies. Yes "Andrei Rublyov"
| was shelved, but that's about it, really. Many others had
| some of their movies shelved for all kinds of reasons.
| Risking their lives? Well maybe, if you can consider mental
| breakdown, heart attack as risk. But I bet Hollywood
| directors/actors risked their lives more by being in the
| same hotel room with Harvey Weinstein and his exposed puny
| dongle.
| UncleOxidant wrote:
| I agree, but I wonder if viewers who have been brought up
| on the superhero genre where something is blowing up every
| minute or two could even watch a Tarkovsky film. Whenever I
| try to introduce people to Tarkovsky's films I warn them up
| front that they need to completely change their sense of
| time - they need to view these films as meditations, they
| need to slow way down. And even with these suggestions up
| front, it's still difficult for many modern viewers to make
| it through.
| Ansil849 wrote:
| An overworked population is precisely the one that needs
| thought-provoking cinema.
| copperx wrote:
| Exactly. The last thing the overworked need is more
| cultural anesthesia.
| sequoia wrote:
| Speak for yourself. Sometime one wants their thoughts
| "provoked," other times one wants to laugh, or relax, or be
| thrilled by something scary.
|
| I continue to read the somewhat mediocre wheel of time series
| mostly because it's familiar and thereby comforting, and
| there's a lot of it. I listened to "parable of the sower" (a
| more high-brow fiction by Octavia Butler) audiobook recently
| and while it was more "thought provoking" it was also
| depressing, and I've got enough stressors in my life right now
| without spending my leisure time reading about made-up
| tragedies. So I instead opt for something less mentally
| challenging when I want to relax.
|
| Most importantly, appreciating "real art" doesn't make you
| better than someone who likes to binge on MCU movies. It's
| condescending and superior to call someone "hypnotized" for
| liking something you don't, and comments like that tell us more
| about you than the person you're judging.
| [deleted]
| BryantD wrote:
| Counter arguments:
|
| While there are a ton of lost movies, we also live in a world
| in which services like Criterion Channel, Mubi, and Shudder
| make more film available than ever. The other week, I got
| curious and watched a movie from Ulrike Ottinger, loved it, and
| when I get around to it I can watch any of a dozen more of her
| movies.
|
| Likewise, I just bought a boxed set of folk horror movies from
| Severin Films. I miss good video rental stores, but even pre-
| Netflix there weren't more than a dozen US cities with video
| stores where you could rent stuff like that.
|
| The top grossing lists are mostly dominated by blockbusters,
| it's true, but let's look at (say) 1978. Grease, Animal House,
| Close Encounters, Every Which Way But Loose, and Heaven Can
| Wait (a remake!) are the top five. It's been a blockbuster-
| driven market for 40+ years, with the occasional breakthrough
| art house film and, more frequently, a big non-franchise genre
| film (The Martian, Us, etc.) None of this has prevented great
| directors like the Coen Brothers, Soderbergh, or del Toro from
| making very good movies.
|
| There's a market for super-hero movies. There's also a market
| for "real" film. These two things are sometimes in tension, but
| I think at the moment they're both viable.
| margoguryan wrote:
| What we need are more films in the $30m-$70m region; art-
| house blockbusters. Superhero fatigue is real - what
| audiences really want is someone like Michael Mann in the
| 90s.
| MichaelCollins wrote:
| For me, it's Michael Mann's 1981 _Thief_. _Heat_ was good,
| but I feel like _Thief_ had more soul.
| BryantD wrote:
| Recently:
|
| - Everything Everywhere All at Once - The Black Phone - The
| Northman - House of Gucci - Knives Out - Little Women - A
| Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood - The Shape of Water
|
| The blockbusters are such a huge part of the cultural
| landscape so that it's easy to miss all the other film out
| there. But there's really a lot of it!
| oxplot wrote:
| Ahh, grew up watching this at least a 100 times:
| https://35mm.online/vod/fabula/vabank
| throwmisinfo388 wrote:
| English link:
|
| https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/va-banque
| 99_00 wrote:
| I went from having ZERO interest in classic Polish film to having
| some interest.
|
| So mission accomplished, Polish Film Institute.
| mzs wrote:
| They have this nice page* of movies with Ukrainian subtitles. I
| am teaching English to a family of Ukrainian refugees. Films in
| English with Ukrainian subtitles would be a fantastic resource.
| Does anyone know of such a service?
|
| * https://35mm.online/kolekcje/dla-ukrainy
| thriftwy wrote:
| Sites like subscene have endless supply of subtitles in any
| languages and you can probably torrent the films themselves.
| mzs wrote:
| I should add, they only have iphones and the 35mm site's
| player _just worked_ as expected with Ukrainian subs.
| aeontech wrote:
| FWIW, I highly, highly recommend showing them (simpler) movies
| with _english_ subtitles.
|
| This helped tremendously when I was going from "school English"
| to "native English", because things I couldn't pick up by ear
| yet, I could pick up by reading the subtitles.
|
| If you watch it with Ukrainian subtitles, your brain just falls
| back on what it already knows, and ignores the soundtrack
| (mostly).
| itsmenow wrote:
| Kingsajz [1] is one of my favorite Polish movies of all time.
| It's about way for people to consume some elixir and become tiny
| (it's an adult movie, although may not sound like it). The
| special effects are absolutely phenomenal - it's mind boggling
| that it was done in 1987, and with communist budgets!
| Unfortunately looks like no English subtitles are available.
|
| [1] https://35mm.online/vod/fabula/kingsajz
| throwmisinfo388 wrote:
| English link:
|
| https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/king-size
| stefantalpalaru wrote:
| makerofspoons wrote:
| I recommend "Blind Chance". It follows three storylines about a
| man trying to catch a train where different events cause his life
| to unfold differently. It really makes you think about all the
| small events that have occurred in your life that snowball to
| make you who you are.
| ttlsa wrote:
| Pretty much everything directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski is
| worth watching.
| achairapart wrote:
| Second this! Also other early films by Kieslowski: Amateur, No
| End, A Short film about love, A short film about killing.
| andrea76 wrote:
| Where is this movie? Is it subtitled in English?
| makerofspoons wrote:
| It's here: https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/blind-
| chance
|
| Unfortunately, it does not appear to have English subtitles
| on this site according to the icons (I cannot create an
| account to check at the moment). It does look like you can
| rent the film with subtitles quite cheaply from Amazon:
| https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Chance-English-Subtitled-
| Bogusl...
| M4v3R wrote:
| According to the About the Project [1] section of the page:
|
| > All film materials presented on the 35mm.online platform
| meet the requirements of WCAG 2.0 - they have audio
| descriptions, transcriptions, subtitles in Polish and
| English, as well as comprehensive descriptions. For
| foreigners, the entire film library of the Platform is
| available in English.
|
| So I assume that this one also has English subtitles. The
| icon below the film is only about the available audio
| language options.
|
| Edit: Just double checked and yes, the English subtitles
| are available for this one (and all other films).
|
| [1] https://35mm.online/en/articles/about-the-project
| odiroot wrote:
| Very good recommendation. I was taken to this movie by my
| (secondary school, I believe) teacher.
|
| It really moved me, although I don't agree with suggestion that
| movie is making: staying neutral is the worst choice you can
| make.
|
| Especially in communist Poland it was probably best choice to
| avoid jail/torture/execution and shame of collaboration at the
| same time.
| Swizec wrote:
| > staying neutral is the worst choice > best choice to avoid
| jail/torture/execution
|
| See that's the thing with rhetoric. It's easy to say from the
| safety of our modern lives. Or as my mom used to say: "It's
| easy to shit when your butt is full"
|
| Growing up in almost eastern europe (slovenia), you'd hear a
| lot of stories from ye olden days of what was and wasn't
| said. What people did and didn't do. At the end of the day,
| you can be all the hero you want, but the only thing that
| matters long-term is whether you got scooped up into the
| murder pits or not.
|
| Objectively, neither side was _that_ great. In the 60's and
| 70's we built memorials to fallen comrades bravely fighting
| the fascist oppressor. In the 90's and 00's we built
| memorials to the fallen souls bravely dying in communist
| murder pits during that same period. _shrug_
| foobarian wrote:
| Sometimes when my elders reminisced about the darker parts
| of that era they mentioned "getting swallowed by the
| night."
|
| One other fun story from a relative who participated in a
| work action just after war building a railroad. It was
| pouring rain, and that day Tito came through to
| visit/peptalk. According to her, he said "Is it raining
| comrade?" to which she retorted "It is not raining comrade
| Tito, it is a sunny day!"
| mistrial9 wrote:
| US military type guys with truck caps doing manual labor
| on some strict team say exactly this kind of nonsense
| too, right now.
| KptMarchewa wrote:
| >Especially in communist Poland it was probably best choice
| to avoid jail/torture/execution and shame of collaboration at
| the same time.
|
| Till 1956? Yes. After? The regime was bad, but less violent
| like some of the modern dictatorships, for example current
| Putin's Russia. Low level activism could result in losing
| job, but not execution.
|
| Imagine that perpetrators of Navalny poisoning were actually
| tried: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Popie%C5%82uszko
| odiroot wrote:
| It returned in the 80's. Many people were "disappeared". A
| few members of my family were interned. One was brutally
| beaten and tortured and never recovered from it.
| crispyambulance wrote:
| "A Short Film about Killing" is absolutely devastating. It
| exists in 2 forms: a shortened version that is one part of
| Kieslowski's 10-part Television series "Dekalog" and a longer
| standalone version.
|
| I would also add the masterpieces he is most known for: "The
| Double Life of Veronique" and the trilogy, "Red", "White", and
| "Blue". Of these "White" is the most accessible, it stars a
| very young and luminous Julie Deply.
|
| https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/a-short-film-about-k...
| https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/three-colors-white-t...
| lr1970 wrote:
| All 10 pieces of Decalog (Dekalog) are worth watching.
| Kieslowski is one of the greatest film directors of all time.
| BryantD wrote:
| The trilogy is currently in re-release to celebrate a new 4K
| transfer. If you live in a US city with an arthouse theater
| you might be able to catch it on the big screen.
| michaelscott wrote:
| This is incredible! Does anyone know of other sites like this for
| films from other countries? I've been looking to broaden my
| cinematic horizons a bit, as well as hunting for material to
| practice language comprehension.
| DanSmooth wrote:
| There is https://croatian.film/en/ for Croatian short films.
| lubesGordi wrote:
| There's the National Film Board of Canada:
|
| https://www.nfb.ca/
| pjc50 wrote:
| Large amounts of Mosfilm output was available on Youtube,
| although I think Russian cinema may be an unpopular choice at
| the moment.
|
| A surprising amount of pre-90s film is randomly available on
| youtube; sometimes with odd choices about dubbing and
| subtitles.
| themodelplumber wrote:
| IDK, I run a pro-Ukraine resource page but I could still go
| watch films like Moscow - Cassiopeia, or Courier, any day
|
| A lot of the creators behind the various films were pretty
| nuanced people, too...it shows in the way that they speak a
| clearly ethical filmic language based in universal ideals.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| I have been working through the book "1000 Films To See Before
| You Die" -- finding the films on YouTube or Netflix....
| BryantD wrote:
| If you have the budget for it, I strongly recommend Criterion
| Channel as another source for these.
| ankaAr wrote:
| The only one I know is from here, Argentina, but I cannot
| remember if I can see from outside the country.
|
| play.cine.ar
|
| Tell me if you can, maybe with a proxy or cheating the account
| registration. It is a free public platform anyway. We are
| paying that with taxes so don't worry.
| sofixa wrote:
| Just tested it, i can create an account with the location
| properly set (to France) and it lets me watch (at least the
| two random things i clicked on).
| crispyambulance wrote:
| Since we're talking Polish cinema. I recommend 2 films from
| Andrzej Zulawski:
|
| * Possession (1981) starring Sam Neil and Isabelle Adjani. It
| starts out sort of like a relationship-gone-bad film then goes
| into a full-on crazy mode.
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah4Z1yIAoFM
|
| * On The Silver Globe (1988) -- Unfinished sci-fi, super
| innovative, completely bonkers.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Silver_Globe_(film)
| nextstepguy wrote:
| I can't find The Saragossa Manuscript!!
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Try YouTube: https://youtu.be/LNoEmDZufWY
| rasz wrote:
| The closest you can get are
|
| Documentary from the set, starts @10:00
| https://35mm.online/vod/kroniki/polska-kronika-filmowa-64-26...
|
| Similar surreal movies by same Director/Author:
|
| https://35mm.online/vod/fabula/sanatorium-pod-klepsydra
|
| https://35mm.online/vod/fabula/osobisty-pamietnik-grzesznika...
| mistrial9 wrote:
| check out section 4 (!)
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Saragossa_Man...
| miki123211 wrote:
| They even provide audio descriptions, unlike basically every
| other service over here.
| unny wrote:
| Pilot Pirx was already mentioned, I would add:
| https://35mm.online/vod/fabula/seksmisja
| tannedNerd wrote:
| This is one of my fav polish comedies. If you want to go down
| the rabbit hole, this list is pretty good place to start.
| https://culture.pl/en/article/knee-slappers-polands-most-bel...
| throwmisinfo388 wrote:
| English link:
|
| https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/sexmission
| type0 wrote:
| One of the first things I looked up as well, so happy it was
| there; too bad 'With Fire and Sword' (Ogniem i mieczem) wasn't
| there.
| btdmaster wrote:
| Very disappointed that it has DRM...
| rasz wrote:
| >KEYFORMAT="com.apple.streamingkeydelivery"
|
| yep you are right, looks like FairPlay Streaming (FPS).
| ArtWomb wrote:
| I don't see Zbignew Cybulski's Ashes and Diamonds, but there are
| a few others selections from the "polish james dean". It's
| amazing how difficult it is to stream deep cinema online from any
| of the online services. For example, Criterion Collection will
| have Milos Forman's Fireman's Ball & Loves of a Blonde, but not
| Black Peter. One is sort of left scrounging bits of ephemera on
| YT ;)
| deckard1 wrote:
| This is an excellent resource. Lots of great films on here. Piotr
| Szulkin is on here as well, for anyone into sci-fi. I've been
| looking for some of these films for awhile...
|
| Golem:
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| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080806/
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| https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/golem
|
| The War of the Worlds: Next Century:
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| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083335/
|
| https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/the-war-of-the-worl...
|
| O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization:
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| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089714/
|
| https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/o-bi-o-ba-the-end-o...
|
| Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes:
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| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091096/
|
| https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/ga-ga-glory-to-the-...
| drosan wrote:
| "How I Unleashed World War II" is not there sadly, nor "With Fire
| and Sword".
| mistrial9 wrote:
| Ogniem i mieczem 1999 3 hours .. with costumes
| minipci1321 wrote:
| "Potop" is also missing it seems? Didn't find "Katyn" either.
| bklaasen wrote:
| The former is a classic comedy. For a taste of what you're
| missing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfKZclMWS1U
| ajuc wrote:
| The funny thing is - Polish pronunciation is objectively
| easier than English.
| 0x38B wrote:
| As far as Polish films, highly recommend 1982's "Znachor" (1).
|
| Quoting IMDB: "Abandoned by his wife and daughter, a famous
| surgeon starts drinking, hurts his head and loses his memory. His
| medical knowledge gradually resurfaces and he becomes a village
| healer ..."
|
| 1: https://imdb.com/title/tt0084953/
| billfruit wrote:
| Does it include the classic Polish movie about Egypt, Pharaoh.
| IndrekR wrote:
| I am not from Poland, but Pilot Pirx's Inquest (Sci-Fi) left
| unforgettable scenes in my memory... those wrists...
|
| https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/pilot-pirx-s-inques...
| thriftwy wrote:
| One thing you should probably mention is that it's based on
| Stanislav Lem's story.
| achairapart wrote:
| This is fantastic. Question: Any way to watch these movies on an
| Android TV box?
|
| I haven't tried yet, but every time I try casting with
| Chromecast/AirPlay somehow subtitles always get lost...
| fatherzine wrote:
| https://35mm.online/en
| noman-land wrote:
| This should be the submitted link I think.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| I've seen "Passenger" because it is included in the "1001 Films
| To See Before You Die" and it is ... haunting.
|
| https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/passenger
| rasz wrote:
| Wow. This is fully legit:
|
| >In the years 2018-2021, the Polish Film Institute, the
| Documentary and Feature Film Studios and Studio Filmow
| Rysunkowych implemented a Project (number POPC.02.03.02-00-0007 /
| 17), named:
|
| >'Digital restoration and digitization of Polish feature films,
| documentaries and animated films in order to ensure access in all
| fields of distribution (cinema, television, Internet, mobile
| devices) and to preserve Polish film heritage for future
| generations', under Sub-measure 2.3.2 'Digital sharing of
| resources of culture' for Measure 2.3 'Digital accessibility and
| usefulness of public sector information', under the Operational
| Programme Digital Poland for 2014-2020.
|
| >160 feature films, 71 documentaries, 474 animated films,
| including 10 full-length animated films have been restored as
| part of the project.
|
| >The project was co-financed by the European Regional Development
| Fund. The total value of the project is PLN 107 292 917,71, the
| value of the European Union funding is PLN 75 121 952,02. The
| project was also co-financed by the Minister of Culture and
| National Heritage in the amount of PLN 13 516 016,95.
|
| Co-funded (75%) by EU, cost $22mil.
| auganov wrote:
| 20M to put a bunch of easily available communist movies (to
| which they already owned copyrights?!) on a website. Why not
| "preserve heritage" by "restoring" pre-war movies that have
| been mostly forgotten and actually do need some real restoring?
| Could probably restore _all_ of them for a few M tops. Sounds
| like a typical EU grafting scheme. This would never get funded
| without EU $.
| gnubison wrote:
| Perhaps those movies are next :) ... and it seems to me you
| could make this argument about _any_ positive action, if you
| wanted.
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