“My mother played the piano, and my parents were both in love with music,” says Steven Spielberg. – My sisters and I grew up listening to our mother’s repertoire: Schuman, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin and Shostakovich. It was her love of music, combined with my obsessive need to learn everything about movies and how to make them, that made me start collecting albums of movie soundtracks at the age of ten or eleven, she says.
– I’m not sure where the album from “West Side Story” came from and whether my parents bought the Broadway CD before the film’s premiere, but I remember falling in love with the music from the first time I listened to it. As a child, I could sing each song by heart – and sang them at dinner, putting the patience of my loved ones to the test. I think I have this music in my genes. I didn’t know how or when it would happen, but it always felt inevitable that I would finally find a way to get to the West Side Story, recalls Spielberg. From December 10, in cinemas we will be able to see the effects of many years of efforts by the director of “Schindler’s List” or “ET” – the new version of “West Side Story” with Rachel Zegler and Andel Elgort will then have its Polish premiere. Therefore, among others we talk about this film in the new episode of “POPkultura”.
In the cinema, a musical, but also a return to the 90s.
Another cinema premiere is the Polish “Back to those years”. The film was appreciated at the recently completed Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) 2021 and received the YOUTH FILM AWARD in the JUST FILM section. The picture directed by Konrad Aksinowicz is a unique love letter to the 90s and the past years of childhood, but also a difficult story of fighting the alcoholism of his beloved father. A story that really happened. – I had a lot of Lego, my father brought nice CDs, but he also drank. This is my return to childhood. Keeping all the proportions, this is my “Amarcord”. My father left for Canada in the hope of a better tomorrow. The plan was that we would join him. He came back after a year, and although he argued that he performed in a Polish theater, I saw photos only when he was cleaning. It was difficult for him, as an intelligent man, to find himself in it – says Konrad Aksinowicz.
As a child of the 90s, the director wanted his film to transport the viewer to those times in the most naturalistic way, which is why he took care of the smallest details. The iconographic layer – set design or costumes – is very expressive in the film, just like those years. – There are many flavors that people growing up in these times will notice – says the director.
The third premiere worth paying attention to is the new album of Alicia Keys. And what else? In cinemas, incl. “Biały potok” with Marcin Dorociński in the cast, on VOD “Unforgivable” with Sandra Bullock, and in music, incl. a proposal for fans of Kasia Kowalska and a recording of her concert at Pol’And’Rock 2021.
Source: Gazeta
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