There are great films everyone celebrates, and then there are great films few people remember. Of these Krzysztof Kieslowski’s 1988 “Dekalog” is one of the greatest. The reasons this exceptional work ...

Did an obscure TV miniseries made in Poland at the tail end of the Communist era — and seen in the West only by art-film devotees — pave the way for the explosion of quality TV drama that produced ...

Thou shalt go see Krzysztof Kieślowski’s magnum opus, which looks more divine than ever thanks to Janus Films' 4K restoration. Ten commandments. 10 episodes. 10 hours. When it first aired on Polish ...

Renowned for pushing the boundaries of storytelling, Stanley Kubrick is one of the few directors in film history with a nearly flawless body of work. From the controversial anti-war film Paths of ...

From the IndieWire Vault: The Polish arthouse director talks about his most famous series in wonderful, rich detail. Krzysztof Kieślowski’s criminally underseen (yet still critically beloved) ten-part ...

In Part One of “Dekalog,” Irena (Maja Komorowska, “Katyń”) fields questions posed by her wide-eyed young nephew (Wojciech Klata, “Schindler’s List”) — complex ones, about God and science, what death ...

Watch a clip from the first installment of "Dekalog," starring Artur Barcis, Henryk Baranowski, and Wojciech Klata. Photo: Janus Films Milk circulates like blood throughout the great Polish director ...

A Short Episode About Murder: Jan Tesarz faces the end in Dekalog: Five. “I don’t have any answers,” Krzysztof Kieslowski once said, “but [I] do know how to pose questions.” Not an uncommon stance for ...

One of the towering pillars of world cinema, Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s 10-part, 10-hour Dekalog (1988) is an unusually nuanced examination of the way people relate to one another. In ...

Poland, the late 1980s, the last gasp of Soviet rule. In a concrete Warsaw high-rise, politics have little bearing on daily life beyond a lingering mood of diffuse anxiety. Residents come and go, ...