From director Jerzy Skolimowski—a complicated thriller. And that's putting it mildly. is not the sort of film that will be embraced by most people and, if I can be absolutely honest here, the "thinking-man's action thriller" line that's used in the synop

In my blog post about director Jerzy Skolimowski last Friday, I failed to mention that one of his best films, 2010’s Essential Killing, was recently released on DVD in the US. This is good news. Given its emphasis on snow and isolation, Essential is a pe

At least in our eyes, any news on the enigma that is Vincent Gallo is good news. His performance as the titular, tortured artist in Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro" was a welcome reminder just how much the talened writer/director/actor/musician has to offe

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One of the most audacious filmmakers of the nineteen-sixties and seventies, the Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski took a seventeen-year break from the movie business in 1989; “Essential Killing” (coming to DVD January 24th), from 2010, the second film si

Deep End, which screens through Thursday at BAM Cinemathek, is a snapshot portrait of the libidinal awakening of a shy British 15-year-old named Mike (John Moulder-Brown). It’s a coming-of-age movie as imagined by Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski. Most