Camera Buff

Starring:Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska, Ewa Pokas, Stefan Czyzewski, Jerzy Nowak, Tadeusz Bradecki, Marek Litewka, Boguslaw Sobczuk, Krzysztof Zanussi, Tadeusz Rzepka, Andrzej Jurga, Andrzej Warchal, Tadeusz Huk, Tadeusz Sobolewski, Roman Stankiewicz, Aleksandra Kisielewska, Danuta Wiercinska, Wlodzimierz Maciudzinski, Antonina Barczewska, Jolanta Brzezinska
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Studio: Kino Video
Product Type: DVD

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Kieslowski collection . . .
Some of the best movies I have ever watched
Bravississimo!

The Krzysztof Kieslowski Collection (A Short Film About Love/Blind Chance/Camera Buff/No End/The Scar/A Short Film About Killing)
Starring: Boguslaw Linda , Tadeusz Lomnicki , Zbigniew Zapasiewicz , Boguslawa Pawelec , and Marzena Trybala
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
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ASIN: B0009UZGQY
Release Date: 2005-08-16

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Kieslowski collection . . ........2005-12-31

A dirty Warsaw frames A Short Film About Killing, symbolizing a society in decay. Murder . . . both state sanctioned and random are shown in counterpoint. The film is a powerful indictment about the death penalty, and the barrister reflects the outrage of the heart. The second theme is random chance . . . if only the killer's sister hadn't been killed, if only he had a good friend to talk to, if only someone had intervened. The film is so hard to watch because it reflects the mirror back at our souls.

Voyeurism, love and loneliness mingle in A Short Film About Love. Love, the special world, cannot be approached directly, but only tangentially . . . in the film's case, through the lens. Where Tomek begins as an impassioned voyeur, his love interest takes over as the film progresses. Do we only need a fleeting glimpse to arrive at love? How do we escape from being alone in the world? Such universal question are asked(and answered) in this expanded film version of The Dialogue classic.

Blind Chance is fantastic. Absolutely great. The themes of free choice and predetermination are explored not as opposites but as two qualities somehow blended together. When we think, "ah, I can choose," are we correct, or does each cosmic choice imply similar outcomes, similar problems? If we have three choices, are they really so different? Is the bad choice so bad? On the extra selections, check out the fascinating interview with his film censor, whom he respected so much she became a sort of creative sounding board for his works in progress, while at the same time examining his work in her `official capacity.'

No End is obviously a precursor to Blue . . . where the dead(sometimes literally, sometimes metaphorically)live on, influencing events. There is no Black and White in Kieslowski's films, only gradations. Like Blind Chance, each position/argument on how to handle the case of the prisoner has their pro and con side. Truth or the true side of the prisoner is expressed by the deceased lawyer, revealed through his writings. Check out the short documentary The Office on the extras portion of the disc. It has comedy, wit, grace and tragedy(all in five minutes). It takes place in the black hole of an official state office where some hack drones on in a staccato tone to desperate pleas from several claimants. In this short(shot in film school), one can see the shape and scope of Kieslowski's future films.

On the extras of Camera Buff, Kieslowski's short documentary Talking Heads shows the humanity and hopes of ordinary people, and also of the filmmaker Kieslowski himself. Camera Buff works on several levels. First, it's laugh-out-loud funny(in parts). Second, it raises questions of putting somebody in the spotlight . . . and its implications. Like the dwarf worker or the communist functionary who loses his job. I see implications in news stories everyday . . . the power of turning the camera on ourself. This is Kieslowski's first "breakthrough film," and, perhaps it is here that Kieslowski first all incorporates all of the parts in the sum in combination making Kieslowski a singular genius. No other filmmaker or artist of any kind examines life in this manner, turning the camera inward.

Some of the best movies I have ever watched.......2005-12-10

Each movie of the collection is a masterpiece, a refreshing experience, leaving a deep, intense after-taste. Do not miss them !

Bravississimo! .......2005-08-31

SO FAR THE DVD EVENT OF THE DECADE!

No need to heap more praise upon Kieslowski, one of the greatest masters behind the camera. Just wanted to uncork a flood of this for this nothing short of phenomenal DVD set harvested by the "Kino video" film thoroughbreds! Each of these DVD titles has features aplenty to consider the entire edition a cultural event of the first water ---Kieslowski' rare shorter footage films are added on each of the titles; each title includes interviews with closest associates, friends, critics etc. It seems like that even the critics got inspired -being awara that they are paying tribute to a master that stand on equal footing to a Tarkovski, Fellini or Kurosawa to name but the cream of the crop.
All DVD's from the set are rented relentlessly, around the clock, at least in the video store I frequent. It makesone joyous to see that there's so many film fans hungry for the REAL THING (as opposed to the abominable, unmentionable, ever worse and more offensive Hollywood drek ;-)

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The story of a man making stories with films
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Camera Buff
Starring: Jerzy Stuhr , Malgorzata Zabkowska , Ewa Pokas , Stefan Czyzewski , and Jerzy Nowak
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
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ASIN: B0002CHI7Y
Release Date: 2004-08-17

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The story of a man making stories with films.......2006-07-22

"Camera Buff" (Amator) is an early work of Krzysztof Kieslowski, but one that shows he already exhibits talent as a master of drama. The story is about a young man (as played by Jerzy Stuhr) who is happy. He has a loving wife, a newborn baby, and a nice home. He gets an 8 mm video camera to record his daughter growing up, but it turns into a hobby with a life of its own. As he grows more successful in his endeavors, his wife becomes jealous. Although the story is straightforward, it is one that really draws you in and gets interesting right away.

As we watch the story of a man making stories with films, we can almost see that it is like playing god, but not one that is all-powerful. Ironically, all too often in life just as everything is going well in one area, something else falls apart. I think part of the appeal of the film has to due with the fact that we can relate with at least some of the messages. It doesn't portray life in some glamorized way, and I think the viewers can appreciate that.

"Amator" has that Kieslowski feeling to it and is a great film. I found the story to be unpredictable enough to keep me guessing, so it was thoroughly entertaining with its great acting and storyline. I highly recommend it to anyone that likes dramas, as this 1979 Kieslowski film is sure to delight them.

Fully developed.......2004-08-26

"Camera Buff" (1979) brought Krzysztof Kieslowski his first international acclaim, taking the top prize at the Moscow film fest. It concerns a proud dad (Jerzy Stuhr) who buys an 8mm camera with which to film his newborn. The factory worker becomes obsessed with film, losing his old life to his new calling. When his wife announces she is leaving, the camera buff only can frame her departing figure with his fingers. Action! Some elements came from Kieslowski's life as a film student, his biographer Annette Insdorf reports in a brief but informative interview in the extras. The color images (full frame, enhanced) and sound are adequate. Subtitles are clear. This is one of four recent additions to Kino's Kieslowski collection -- along with "No End," "The Scar" and "Blind Chance" -- all of which show that the Polish master's writing and directing skills arrived almost fully formed when he turned to feature films. Each of the films benefits from a powerful central performance. They are products of the 1970s and '80s, a time of vast sociopolitical changes in Poland, but are not timepieces or attacks on the communists. Highly recommended.

QUIXOTIC OBSESSIONS.......1999-04-25

For the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, celebrated director of RED, WHITE, and BLUE, life is an undivine comedy--and film-making a far stranger farce. No doubt that the absurdities that this Pole faced througout his life afforded him a peculiar brand and blend of pessimism, humanism, and humour which informs his works.In CAMERA BUFF, originally entitled AMATOR in Polish with the implication on the word amateur, the film-maker is Filip, a factory worker. He acquiresan 8 mm camera with the intention of filming his daughter's development. This biographic projects soon develops into other things, such as bearing witness to the society around him. It comes to a point where the authorities cautions him in his filmic projects. Filip's double life takes over and he is slowly becomes isolated from his family and friends. In the end Filip finally faces up to his obsessions. What began as a humourous movie about obsessive cinephilia turns and, later, totalitarian film-making, doubles back into a study of human vulnerablity. Filip's final gesture is revisited by Kieslowski, the man behind the camera, in a scene towards the end of of his last movie RED. The autobiographical is not far away from Kieslowski's meditation on politics and art. Kieslowski started out as a documentarist. Once, it turns out that he may have recorded a murderer stuffing her victim's dead body in a train locker. When the authorities seized the cameras for his documentary, it turns out that the event was not filmed. In addition, Kieslowski offers fragments of a documentary in CAMERA BUFF. This documentary within the movie was once a potential project but was turned down by the censors. Kieslowski not only relates to his characters, the 'not fulfilled' as one commentator puts it, but may be populated by his echoes, shades or twins. Actual incidents and personages intrude upon the fictional world. Stories get repeated with slight variations. Lives are lived simultaneously in different parts of the world. Some are born too soon or too late, depending upons one's point of view, but all are after the same things in life.Kieslowski is a moralist film-maker andhe eschews a heavy-handed moralism for a compassionate world view. No one is entirely evil and we must understand them, he would suggest. And so his characters may seem lost and clueless, but in the end Kieslowski offers them a sense of ambigious redemption and release. Their lives and ours are part of a human comedy afterall.

Camera Buff / Amator / Kinoljubitel by Krzysztof Kieslowski

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Camera Buff / Amator / Kinoljubitel by Krzysztof Kieslowski
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Manufacturer: Karmen Video
ProductGroup: DVD
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Ezhi SHtur ("Killer"), Novak Ezhi ("Tri cveta: Belyj"), Tadeush Bradecki ("ZHizn' kak smertel'naja bolezn', peredajuwajasja polovym putem") v drame "Kinoljubitel'". Posle rozhdenija rebenka Filip pokupaet 8-millimetrovuju kameru i pervye ljubitel'skie opyty posvjawaet docheri. V malen'kom fabrichnom gorodke kinomanskij poryv diletanta-operatora ne ostaetsja nezamechennym, i vot uzhe Filip stanovitsja lichnym pomownikom mestnogo partijnogo bossa. S povysheniem po sluzhbe rastet i slava ljubitelja; tol'ko vzgljad ego na real'nost' cherez ob#ektiv stanovitsja vse bolee neprijatnym i bespowadnym i vse menee ustraivajuwim vlast' prederzhawih...

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