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 ...

Czech filmmaker Václav Marhoul discusses his controversial Holocaust-set drama, why it’s less violent than “Joker,” and how his upcoming Joseph McCarthy movie is a rebuke of Trump. Entertainment ...

“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 ...

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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 ...

IFC Films has picked up the U.S. rights to Czech director Vaclav Marhoul's 'The Painted Bird,' a movie adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski's controversial novel about the Holocaust. By Etan Vlessing Canada ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...