If you think the black-and-white Czech film “The Painted Bird” will fulfill your monthly boring-art quota, just wait until the scene in which a nympho gets it on with a goat! Oh, the movie is ...

Václav Marhoul’s “The Painted Bird” begins with utter bleakness but over the course of its 169-minute running time, keeps finding lower depths of misery. When it premiered last fall at the Venice Film ...

“The Painted Bird” has been controversial ever since Jerzy Kosinski first published his novel in 1965. The grim story, about a young boy trying to survive in Eastern Europe during WWII, features acts ...

Since it made its debut last year at the Venice Film Festival, Czech filmmaker Vàclav Marhoul’s adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński’s controversial 1965 World War II novel has been tagged as one of the more ...

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An extraordinary piece of filmmaking I hope never to see again, Václav Marhoul’s “The Painted Bird” is a pulverizing movie experience from which one cannot look away. Adapted from Jerzy Kosiński’s ...

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The Painted Bird, written, directed, and produced by Czech filmmaker Vaclav Marhoul, adapts Jerzy Kosinski’s 1965 novel that surveys the destruction wrought by World War II on both Europe and the ...

Celebrity tends to destroy the artist -- just look at Orson Welles, Truman Capote or Marlon Brando, who spent their last years prattling away on the couches of Talk Show Nation. Or Jerzy Kosinski, ...

In recent years, I’ve noticed the emergence of a new strain of films centered around the Holocaust. It began in 2015 with Hungarian director László Nemes’ disorienting Son of Saul, which played around ...

I never made it all the way through Jerzy Kosinski’s bleak and brooding 1965 novel “The Painted Bird.” By the time I tried, it had won the National Book Award, and was being recommended to me by ...

(JTA) — Jerzy Kosiński’s 1965 Holocaust novel “The Painted Bird” was mired in controversy almost from its release. The film adaptation, which became available through on-demand platforms this weekend, ...