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Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has is the first study in English of the career and work of legendary Polish filmmaker Wojciech Has, the director of such classics as The Saragossa Manuscript and The Hourglass Sanatorium.
Review Quotes: "Has is a completely unrecognized genius, probably the most talented Polish director since the war, with his own sensibility and vision."--Pawel Pawlikowski, director of the Oscar-winning film Ida
"Insdorf is an exemplary critic whose clear, compact analyses are equally insightful on narrative, thematic, and audiovisual levels. Almost every page of Intimations reveals something fresh about the 14 features on which Has's reputation chiefly rests. She is especially strong on his fascination with time, with codes and symbols, with the expressive potential of music and color, and with Jewish imagery and culture... Insdorf also casts valuable light on Has's view of storytelling as a protean enterprise capable of generating the near-claustrophobic intimacy of The Noose (1958) and One Room Tenants (1960), on one hand, and the sprawling, labyrinthine puzzles of The Saragossa Manuscript and The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973), on the other." --Quarterly Review of Film and Video