Hello, my name is Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And today, we'll be talking about Polish master Yerge Skolomowski.

I threw to Will because I didn't want to butcher his name right off the top.

We have a whole episode for me to do that.

And it's very possible I butchered his name off the top. Did we watch a bunch of videos including Making Oves where actors that he worked with said his name? We did. We tried our best. Listen, it wouldn't be this podcast if we weren't butchering a foreign name. But hey, at least we try. And this is a director I've always been interested in because

of his prolific, very odd career that, to my eyes, has always seemed to play a little bit in

the shadows, that you never hear people kind of highlight him that often. And some of you may have

also seen the film that he co-wrote in 1962,

Roman Polanski's debut, Knife in the Water,

as well as Andre Wida's Innocent Sorcerers in 1960,

his first film credit of any kind.

But it's true that between those movies and EO,

a lot of the movies exist kind of at the edge of the canon, you know?

And I think that there is a power that a lot of his English language considered best films

were difficult to get for a while. Because I remember looking for Deep End or The Shout,

and they were like, well, it's not available. Like, it's not on DVD. This was many years ago. It's changed since then. But I do think there was a mystique there. Well, yeah, they can be difficult to, his career can be difficult to place because he's a Polish filmmaker who sprang out of the Polish new wave in the early 1960s, but has spent most of his career abroad, particularly in England.

So he's difficult to place in a national context, and that displaced quality is also,

you know, part of the mood of his films.

You know, he never rose to the sort of superstardom that, say, Roman Polansky did.

He is also, of course, a painter, a musician, a writer, a poet, an actor, and

formerly a boxer. Yeah, like, if you look at his career, in the 1990s, he made a movie that he

had such a miserable experience on. He went, I don't want to make movies anymore unless it's

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