Wojciech Has' film is a swashbuckling voyage into the magical and adventurous times of the past, flecked with danger, romance, intrigue and philosophy. A meeting of officers of the warring sides takes ...

There is something fitting about the fact that this week's Barbican retrospective of the work of one Polish director has been so comprehensively upstaged by the actions of another. One might think of ...

Jan Potocki's 1813 novel The Manuscript At Saragossa should have been impossible for Polish filmmaker Wojciech Has to adapt. An Arabian Nights riff replete with harems, duelists, folkloric beasties, ...

It’s apt that 1973’s The Hourglass Sanatorium (pictured) should be among the first Polish films to be restored in high definition for a new DVD release this week (the process was overseen by ...

An in-depth look at Has’ classic interpretations of Jan Potocki and Bruno Schulz reveals how the films and their source novels affect and complete one another. The terms ‘universe’ and ‘immersion’ ...

In the classic counter-culture novel Illuminatus!, Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea speculate on the JFK assassination. Let’s assume, they say, that the conspiracy theorists are right. Not just one ...

Two classic films from legendary Polish director Wojciech Has are making their UK debut on Blu-ray next month thanks to Mr Bongo Films. Has’ The Saragossa Manuscript and The Hourglass Sanatorium get ...

The third edition of the Timeless Film Festival Warsaw will conclude with a special screening of The Saragossa Manuscript, directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, accompanied by a live performance of its ...

If Alejandro Jodorowsky had got his hands on The Seventh Seal it might have looked like this. The Saragossa Manuscript was shot in 1964 by Polish maverick Wojciech Has and was reputedly the favourite ...