Wednesday, November 13, 2002 - Tuesday, November 19, 2002
Two Boots Pioneer Theatre
155 East 3rd Street (at Avenue A),
New York,
NY Tel: 212.254.3300; Subways: F train to 2nd Ave, 6 train to Bleecker
Barely two weeks before 20th Century Fox launches Steven Soderbergh's film adaptation of the science fiction classic, Solaris, by the world-renowned Polish writer, Stanislaw Lem, (a novel originally brought to the screen rather sternly by the Russian master, Tarkovsky), the Polish Cultural Institute and the Pioneer Theater are giving science-fiction fans and Lem aficionados a chance to see four Polish films based on Lem stories that nicely capture the intellectually provocative humor so characteristic of most of Lem's writing. The only Polish films based on stories by Lem, they have never before been shown publicly in the United States. At least two of the films were co-scripted by Lem himself, and one was directed by Andrzej Wajda. All have English sub-titles.
