This week, Lara Alonso Corona talks to Culture.PL editor and Stories from the Eastern West podcast presenter Adam Żuławski about his grandfather Jerzy Żuławski’s science fiction series The Lunar Trilogy and On the Silver Globe, the film adaptation directed by another family member, Andrzej Żuławski and first shown in 1988, and showing in London as part of Kinoteka – the London Polish Film Festival. They also discuss many of Andrzej Żuławski’s other films, the Young Poland modernist movement, and the challenges of making cinema in Communist Poland.

SELECTED REFERENCES

Blinded by the Lights (TV series, 2018) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6520930/

Boris Godunov (dir. Sergei Bondarchuk, 1986) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Godunov_(1986_film)

Braindead (dir. Peter Jackson, 1992) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/

Cosmos (dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 2015) – http://cinema-scope.com/cinema-scope-online/bleurghing-the-unspeakable-a-stroll-through-andrzej-zulawskis-cosmos/

DAVIES, GLIŃSKI & ŻUŁAWSKI, Quarks, Elephants & Pierogi: Poland in 100 Words (2019) – https://culture.pl/en/work/quarks-elephants-pierogi-poland-in-100-words-mikolaj-glinski-matthew-davis-adam-zulawski

Philip K. Dick

Hard to be a God (dir. Aleksei German, 2013) – https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/review-hard-be-god

FRANK HERBERT, Dune (1965) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)

Stanisław Lem – https://culture.pl/en/artist/stanislaw-lem

Bronisław Malinowski – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronisław_Malinowski

On the Silver Globe (dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 1988) – https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/on-the-silver-globe-2016

Possession (dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 1981) – https://www.timeout.com/london/film/possession-1981

Solaris (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1971)

Stories from the Eastern West (podcast) – https://culture.pl/en/stories-from-the-eastern-west

Jules Verne

H. G. Wells

STANISŁAW WYSPIAŃSKI, The Wedding (1901) – https://culture.pl/en/artist/stanislaw-wyspianski

Young Poland – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Poland

JERZY ŻUŁAWSKI, The Lunar Trilogy (1901-11) – http://translatingmarek.com/the-moon-landings-and-the-prophecies-of-jerzy-zulawski-polands-hg-wells-1969