All These Sleepless Nights (Wszystkie nieprzespane noce) The Orchard Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B- Director: Michal Marczak Written by: Michal Marczak, Cast: Krzystof Bagilski, Michal Huszcza, Eva Lebuef Screened at: Critics’ DVD, NYC, 4/7/17 Opens: April 14, 2017 in NY; April 7 in L.A. and San Francisco Watch these hedonistic Polish youths and […]
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- 4/11/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Battling the blurring between fact and fiction since its very beginning, the art of documentary filmmaking is in an evolutionary moment. With the rise of ethnographic filmmaking changing the visual language of non-fiction cinema in its own way, directors like Michal Marczak are attempting to evolve the language for the type of verite cinema that has defined documentary filmmaking of the last half century.
Marczak’s newest film, All These Sleepless Nights stars Krzysztof Baginski, Michal Huszcza and Eva Lebuef, all playing themselves more or less, over the span of give or take a year in their lives. Best friends in art school, Michal and Kris float through their lives chain smoking, drinking freely and dancing with even less abandon, mixing philosophical musings about life, love and the history of their homeland, with raves and romances galore. Drawing as much influence from the French New Wave as it does anything resembling classical non-fiction filmmaking,...
Marczak’s newest film, All These Sleepless Nights stars Krzysztof Baginski, Michal Huszcza and Eva Lebuef, all playing themselves more or less, over the span of give or take a year in their lives. Best friends in art school, Michal and Kris float through their lives chain smoking, drinking freely and dancing with even less abandon, mixing philosophical musings about life, love and the history of their homeland, with raves and romances galore. Drawing as much influence from the French New Wave as it does anything resembling classical non-fiction filmmaking,...
- 4/7/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
"Blurs the line between documentary and fiction like few films before it." The Orchard has released a trailer for a film from last year's Sundance Film Festival, titled All These Sleepless Nights, a Polish docu-drama about the wild lives of carefree youngsters growing up in Poland. The film follows students Kris (Krzysztof Baginski) and Michal (Michal Huszcza) across two summers in Warsaw, who experience life to the limit spending all night at clubs and parties around the city. Described by The Film Stage as "a music-filled ode to the ever-shifting bliss and angst of youth", this seems like a mesmerizing portrait of what life is like growing up in Europe in this day and age. This trailer is amazing, I'm totally into this and really, really want to see it. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Michal Marczak's All These Sleepless Nights, from YouTube: A new era is coming,...
- 1/19/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Cinema Eye, the organization that recognizes outstanding craft and artistry in nonfiction filmmaking, has announced their annual list of The Unforgettables, designed to highlight “this year’s most notable and significant nonfiction film subjects.” This is Cinema Eye’s tenth anniversary year, and the fourth straight year that they have unveiled their list of Unforgettables, which IndieWire is very happy to exclusively reveal below.
The Unforgettables list aims to celebrate the year’s most exciting collaborations between filmmakers and their subjects, and it’s hard to imagine a list more representative of that ideal than this one. Standouts include director Kirsten Johnson of “Cameraperson,” actress Kate Sheil of “Kate Plays Christine,” subject Sharon Jones of “Miss Sharon Jones!” and both Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner from the revealing feature “Weiner.” And that’s just the start of a list that’s wonderfully representative of some of this year’s most indelible doc subjects.
The Unforgettables list aims to celebrate the year’s most exciting collaborations between filmmakers and their subjects, and it’s hard to imagine a list more representative of that ideal than this one. Standouts include director Kirsten Johnson of “Cameraperson,” actress Kate Sheil of “Kate Plays Christine,” subject Sharon Jones of “Miss Sharon Jones!” and both Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner from the revealing feature “Weiner.” And that’s just the start of a list that’s wonderfully representative of some of this year’s most indelible doc subjects.
- 10/19/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
All These Sleepless Nights was presented in Sundance’s documentary section, but those going in hoping to learn something about insomnia will probably come away disappointed, at least in a sense. The film is far more concerned with watching twenty-somethings Kris (Krzysztof Baginski) and Michal (Michal Huszcza) as they move furniture (widescreen is for snakes, funerals, and couches dontcha know), chase girls, set up low-rent performance art pieces, try drugs, dance, and break into extravagant private property. The degree to which any of this is scripted seems continually up for grabs; all the performers are billed as themselves, and there are certain major life events (breakups, mostly) that happen off-camera, as though the actors told writer/director/cinematographer Michal Marczak to stop filming when their lives became too painful.
But there is, just as potently, the sensation that Marczak is prodding them along, suggesting actions and more often settings to...
But there is, just as potently, the sensation that Marczak is prodding them along, suggesting actions and more often settings to...
- 2/10/2016
- by Scott Nye
- CriterionCast
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