The 14th annual Polish Film Festival in America, produced by the Society for Arts, continues Saturday and Sunday, November 30 and December 1. Tickets are $9 for screenings at the Copernicus Center, 5216 W. Lawrence, and $7 for screenings at the Society for Arts, 1112 N. Milwaukee. For more information call 773-486-9612.
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Three soccer documentaries: Tomasz Smokowski’s Korea 2002 in a Frame follows the Polish team to the World Cup in Korea and Japan. Janusz Zaorski’s White-Red-Black: Olisadebe profiles Emmanuel Olisadebe, the Nigerian phenomenon whose instantaneously granted Polish citizenship was a source of controversy. And Mikolaj Malinowski’s unsubtitled Black Eagles examines the integration of African players into Polish teams. 108 min. (Society for Arts, 8:30)
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Chopin: Desire for Love
The sound on the preview tape was so defective that I gave up watching, but I caught enough of the striking visuals and wacky humor (both somewhat Felliniesque) to regret the loss. The goofy plot concerns an angel named Giordano (Krzysztof Globisz) who loves rock so much and spends so much time in purgatory with singers like Elvis that he gets banished to earth with instructions to perform one kind deed per day. In Krakow, where he remains in phone contact with the folks upstairs, he meets a single mother and street sausage vendor (Ewa Kaim). Artur Wiecek “Baron” directed and cowrote this feature, in Polish with subtitles. 89 min. (JR) (Copernicus Center, 6:00)
