On the Silver Globe: The Zulawski family and Polish science fiction

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This week, Lara Alonso Corona talks to Culture.PL editor and Stories from the Eastern West podcast presenter Adam Żuławski about his grandfather Jerzy Żuławski’s science fiction series The Lunar Trilogy and On the Silver Globe, the film adaptation directed by another family member, Andrzej Żuławski and first shown in 1988, and showing in London as part of Kinoteka – the London Polish Film Festival. They also discuss many of Andrzej Żuławski’s other films, the Young Poland modernist movement, and the challenges of making cinema in Communist Poland. SELECTED REFERENCES Blinded by the Lights (TV series, 2018) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6520930/ Boris Godunov (dir. Sergei Bondarchuk, 1986) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Godunov_(1986_film) Braindead (dir. Peter Jackson, 1992) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/ Cosmos (dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 2015) – http://cinema-scope.com/cinema-scope-online/bleurghing-the-unspeakable-a-stroll-through-andrzej-zulawskis-cosmos/ DAVIES, GLIŃSKI & ŻUŁAWSKI, Quarks, Elephants & Pierogi: Poland in 100 Words (2019) – https://culture.pl/en/work/quarks-elephants-pierogi-poland-in-100-words-mikolaj-glinski-matthew-davis-adam-zulawski Philip K. Dick Hard to be a God (dir. Aleksei German, 2013) – https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/review-hard-be-god FRANK HERBERT, Dune (1965) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel) Stanisław Lem – https://culture.pl/en/artist/stanislaw-lem Bronisław Malinowski – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronisław_Malinowski On the Silver Globe (dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 1988) – https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/on-the-silver-globe-2016 Possession (dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 1981) – https://www.timeout.com/london/film/possession-1981 Solaris (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1971) Stories from the Eastern West (podcast) – https://culture.pl/en/stories-from-the-eastern-west Jules Verne H. G. Wells STANISŁAW WYSPIAŃSKI, The Wedding (1901) – https://culture.pl/en/artist/stanislaw-wyspianski Young Poland – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Poland JERZY ŻUŁAWSKI, The Lunar Trilogy (1901-11) – http://translatingmarek.com/the-moon-landings-and-the-prophecies-of-jerzy-zulawski-polands-hg-wells-1969