SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING (KROTKI FILM O ZABIJANIU) 03.03.2011 (B-103)

1988, Poland, Krzysztof Kieslowski, 84'
The long version of Dekalog 5 which is the fifth of the Dekalog series (50-60 minutes each) Kieslowski shot for television. It is shot for the sixth commandment of Ten Commandments which is "Thou shalt not kill". This film which concerns the "killing" by means of  pure condition is about the sides of the killing and the social dynamics crated these sides.


Stanley Kubrick on Decalogues
A Short Film About Killing on San Francisco Chronicle
A Short Film About Killing by James Berardinelli

BLOW-UP 24.02.2011 (B-103)

1966, United Kingdom, Michelangelo Antonioni, 111'
A successful mod photographer in London, Thomas (David Hemmings), notices that he has accidentally photographed a murder when he blows up the negatives of his photos.

Blow-up by Dan Jardine
Blow-up Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

THE PASSENGER (PROFESSIONE: REPORTER) 17.02.2011 (B-103)

1975, İtaly, Michelangelo Antonioni, 126'
The story of a correspondent who co-opts the I.D. of  a arms dealer when he does not succeed to find the war he should report.

The Passenger Meets History - Sinemascope
The Passenger by Roger Ebert
Antonioni's The Passenger as Lacanian Text by Jack Turner
The Passenger by Manohla Dargis