Krysztof Kieślowski

It seems more and more apparent that television can’t think of anything new. They just keep digging into films and remakes for new shows. Oh, wait. That may be everyone. Deadline reported on Tuesday that the late Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski’s limited series, The Decalogue is set to get the remake treatment at NBC. The …

Speaking to Michael Ciment about his 1975 masterpiece Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick revealed that he had once been interested in adapting another of Thackeray’s novels, Vanity Fair, for the screen. This idea was ultimately abandoned by Kubrick who felt that the story could not have been “successfully compressed into the relatively short time-span of a …