What Does a Male and Female Painted Bunting Look Like? Bright, bold and adorned in rainbow hues, a painted bunting is always ...

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 “The Painted Bird” begins with utter bleakness but over the course of its 169-minute running time, keeps finding lower depths of misery. When it premiered last fall at the Venice Film ...

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 ...

A haunting masterpiece that still unsettles readers decades later, 'The Painted Bird' proves why some books deserve the Nobel ...

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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 ...

Vaclav Marhoul's grim and violent adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski's novel 'The Painted Bird' lived up to its controversial billing at TIFF 2019, after a notorious Venice bow, by prompting a mass walkout ...

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 ...

Prague-born writer-director Vaclav Marhoul tosses his hat into the ring with the likes of Bergman, Tarkovsky and Fellini with the Czech Republic Academy Award selection “The Painted Bird,” a ...