Journals Showcase (Witryna Czasopism.pl)

It would be difficult not to notice the expansion of an interview that has been taking place during the recent years in the (not only) Polish press. In every daily newspaper, opinion weekly magazine, economic, sailing, trekking and catholic papers there are a few interviews, short conversations, editorial debates and discussions, “guest interview”, “three questions to” etc. In the interview for “Polityka” Myśliwski talks about his writing, about poring over a blank page, about whole years without a single word written, about a “pencil method”: “Maybe it is a kind of trauma, but a sight of a crossed out sentence, or even a word, affects me in a bad way, as if depriving me of imagination needed to create another sentence. So, I often say that I write more with an eraser than a pencil”. The conversation in “Tygodnik Powszechny” is almost wholly dedicated to the latest book of Myśliwski.

A holiday double issue of “Kino” magazine (7-8/2006) as usual visits all befriended summer film festivals in Poland: chronologically, it was worth to start with Łagowo where the Koterskis, a father and son, strolled, then move to Toruń (for a retrospective of Stanisław Różewicz, the master) and during the second half of July pop off to Wrocław (apart from films similar in style to Roman Gutek’s team, recollection of a classic Stanisław Lenartowicz who is rarely present in film discussions), to Ińsk (for a film biography seminar) and to Zwierzyniec (expressive cinema of Grzegorz Królikiewicz).