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 ...

Václav Marhoul's black-and-white film is an epic portrait of inhumanity in the tradition of "Come and See" and "The Tin Drum." Much has been made of the extreme and unrelenting violence that ...

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

“The Painted Bird” has been controversial ever since Jerzy Kosinski first published his novel in 1965. The grim story, about a young boy trying to survive in Eastern Europe during WWII, features acts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jerzy Kosinski’s horrific novel about an unnamed boy wandering around Eastern Europe at the close of World War II is sensitively adapted for the screen in 'The Painted Bird,' Czech director Vaclav ...