The pitch:

“Jan Sienkiewicz, a writer and lecturer who was expelled from university, takes a job at a Warsaw high school. Under his care comes the school’s famous class of rebellious and knowledge-resistant outcasts. IIB are students from hell, and their future seems doomed. But Sienkiewicz, armed with literature, enthusiasm and a lot of unconventional ideas, will challenge the group doomed to exclusion. Will he be able to tame her and save her? A story about friendship, love, school madness and that everyone deserves another chance.”

Why so much verbiage? I can name that tune in three notes, Wink: “Welcome Back, Kotterski”


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Weronika’s career has included an extensive amount of nudity, as detailed in the Polish Nudografia site.


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Both Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert, who are probably the two most influential and respected film critics in history, declared it to be a masterpiece. I respectfully disagreed with the encomiums they heaped upon the film, but I fully joined in the paeans they sang to Brando’s performance. Many people (including Kael and Ebert) have put Brando into nomination as the greatest film actor of all time. If that is true, and if this is Brando’s best performance, as many have said, then it may be the greatest film performance in history. There is no objective measurement that can support or refute that, and I don’t support blanket claims of non-measurable achievements (how the hell can you compare them?), but I don’t find it an unreasonable argument. If there were such a thing as “best performance ever,” the discussion could include Brando’s work in this film.

Johnny Moronic’s latest time capsule.

Johnny’s notes:

Throughout the 1970s there were some sex-related documentaries/docu-dramas that were made in Australia that had a close look at sexuality in Australia. These movies all played in cinemas which seems very odd now but back in the 1970s there wasn’t really any other place to show them as they were often too risqué for television. Plus there was a growing interesting in sex and these movies were generally entertaining. I’ve already looked at the lengthy 1970 documentary The Naked Bunyip, a heavily censored look at sexuality in Australia with the censorship shown with an animation over the scenes that the filmmakers were told to cover up. Now I’m going to take a look at a couple of fairly graphic documentaries from the less censorious mid-1970s.