Holland`s films at NYC MOMA
Posted 2008. 12. 9. 17:24+ http://www.polskieradio.pl/thenews/culture/?id=97585
Holland's films at NYC MOMA
Created: 08.12.2008 12:32
A retrospective of the film output of the prominent Polish director, Agnieszka Holland, opens at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on Wednesday, 10 December, with the screening of Copying Beethoven, introduced by Holland and Ed Harris, who plays Beethoven in the film.
The programme of the event includes her features made in the west over the past two decades, such as To Kill a Priest (about the murder of the Solidarity priest Father Jerzy Popieluszko in 1984), Europa, Europa, A Secret Garden, Washington Square, The Third Miracle and Total Eclipse, as well as her early films made in Poland in the 1970s which probed into various aspects of life under communism (Sunday Children, Screen Tests, Provincial Actors, A Lonely Woman).
The MOMA retrospective lasts until 5 January 2009.
Agnieszka Holland is a graduate of the Film Academy in Prague. She started her career in Poland in 1972 as an assistant to Krzysztof Zanussi. She settled in the West in 1981. A week ago, she celebrated her 60th birthday. (mk)