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There is so much cinema on the pages of the February, post-birthday issue of “Kino”, that I don’t know where to start from. Let’s take it from the beginning. The cover greets us with a pleasant still from “Brokeback Mountain” (the Polish title has a mysterious “Mystery of... ” added to it), a film directed by Ang Lee. Attention: “Brokeback Mountain” is a masterpiece. Mark my words, as I have seen it with my own eyes. I dare say on this occasion that Wojciech Wencel (a Gdansk based poet, essayist, and laureate of the Kościelski Prize – as “Ozon” justly reminds what I have forgotten) has not seen the film. If my theory is right, paradoxically it benefits Wencel, explaining the rubbish written by him in his “Ozon” column (6/2006), dedicated to Ang Lee’s film, among other things. But, let us drop the curtain of irony upon that.