Two days ago I had the honour of sitting in an upscale Berlin cafe with Wojtek Janio, whose company Fixafilm had just completed the restoration on Andrzej Zulawski’s sci-fi epic ON THE SILVER GLOBE, famously halted in mid-shoot by the Polish authorities prices for propecia and leading to his (second) self-imposed exile to France where he enjoyed the support of the French industry. Wojtek had a laptop perched on the table as the waitress tried to maneuver around it with her levitra cialis viagra armful of plates and coffees, and the surreal imagery of ON THE SILVER GLOBE began. It was jaw-dropping – while existing home video versions struggled to convey the scale of Zulawski’s vision using substandard source materials, the restoration brought the film to life from the original negative. Zulawski himself purportedly said it was like a whole new film.

Later that night I found myself near Moritzplatz U-Bahn station, and since it was only a short jaunt to 87 Sebastianstrasse, I made my way over to the gothic apartment building where Anna tended to her monster in Zulawski’s POSSESSION. As usual when I’m in Berlin or know people who are, I bugged everyone to visit the film’s locations. A lunch meeting planned for Stiege – the Oranienstrasse resto where Mark kills Heinrich in the bathroom (its exterior, anyway – the interior was shot elsewhere) – got relocated to the festival’s market hub at Martin Gropius-Bau just as I opened facebook and saw a post buy levitra online us from my colleague Alex Heller-Nicholas stating that Zulawski was dead.

I knew he was ill, but on the eve of Lincoln Center’s debut of three new restorations of his early works – THE THIRD PART OF THE NIGHT, DIABEL and ON THE SILVER GLOBE – all overseen by scholar and AZ biographer Daniel Bird (who had cancelled his trip to Berlin to tend to some last minute tweaks on the DCP of SILVER GLOBE), and the announcement that Kino-Lorber had picked up rights to Zulawski’s newest film COSMOS, it still came ordering cialis gel as a shock. It seems We use these more than any others and are happy with them pharmacy selling viagra in israel. Generic drugs are required to have the same active ingredient, strength, dosage form, and route of administration as the brand name product. unfair that his renaissance should have to carry on without him.

I met Zulawski once, when the Fantasia Festival gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award and I was invited to a small dinner thanks to the Frontieres Market director Lindsay Peters, to whom I will be forever grateful for the opportunity – even though I found myself too shy to say more than a few words to this director whose film POSSESSION had such an impact on me that it graced the cover of one of my books. I dreaded the thought of him actually reading anything I wrote about his films, which can’t help but be facile oversimplifications of his dense allegories. I always hoped to meet him again on viagra online without a prescription his own turf, and this time to have the confidence to invite a real conversation. I never knew him, and now I never will, but he’ll always be one of the special ones whose films I can say actually changed my life.

I hope that whoever lives on the first floor at 87 Sebastianstrasse notices a stream of sad-looking strangers outside their window over the next few days. One of them will be me.

RIP A.Z. 1940-2016

About the author:

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).