Forty years ago this Oct. 15, Houghton Mifflin published “The Painted Bird” by Jerzy Kosinski. The book was immediately acclaimed as a must-read text on the Holocaust and the nature of human cruelty.

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 ...

Udo Kier is also lined up to star in the screen adaptation of Polish writer Jerzy Kosinski's controversial novel. By Nick Holdsworth Filming has begun on an adaptation of Polish novelist Jerzy ...

The Painted Bird will make you miserable. Watching it is akin to chugging back the black ooze that pumps through humanity’s dark heart, swallowing the vile and toxic swill hard, and asking for more, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When The Painted Bird premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year, it sparked a blaze of headlines. But not necessarily for the right reasons. "Audience members fight each other to escape first ...

STELLAN Skarsgard is at home in Sweden right now, but his laugh is so warm it comes down the phone line in comforting waves that make it feel as if he is in the room with you. It’s a laugh we haven’t ...

"I want to go home!" IFC Films has debuted an official US trailer for the extra-bleak Czech war drama The Painted Bird, originally titled Nabarvené ptáce in Czechia. This originally premiered at both ...

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Vaclav Marhoul's grim and violent adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski's novel 'The Painted Bird' lived up to its controversial billing at TIFF 2019, after a notorious Venice bow, by prompting a mass walkout ...

The German-born actor has carved a niche playing lowlifes, and his demented turn in Czech Republic's Oscar contender "The Painted Bird" is no exception. In “The Painted Bird,” the German actor with ...