A boy of about 9 is separated from his family, moving from one adult to another, from one isolated dwelling or village to another, in a desperate two-year effort to survive. Stripped of name and ...

Adapted from Jerzy Kosiński’s novel, “The Painted Bird” comes to life through Vàclav Marhoul’s lens. Shot in black and white, the film tells the story of The Boy as he wanders around Eastern European ...

Petr Kotlár in a scene from "The Painted Bird." (Courtesy of IFC Films) Václav Marhoul's "The Painted Bird" begins with utter bleakness, but over the course of its 169 minutes, it keeps finding lower ...

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.

Exclusive: Václav Marhoul’s film prompted walkouts during last year's fall festival season, but this extended first clip offers a brief respite from its violence. There’s always one film that stirs up ...

Around the third hour or so of “The Painted Bird,” a grueling, pristinely photographed compendium of wartime horrors, the camera unexpectedly alights on a small, precious act of human decency. A ...

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 ...

Prompted by the VOD release of a film he couldn’t stomach, Variety’s chief film critic explains why there’s no shame in giving up on certain movies. I have a friend who loves to walk out of movies. He ...

Václav Marhoul's adaptation of the Jerzy Kosinski novel is bound to stir up controversy this spring. If there was one movie that made the most headlines among international cinephiles at last year’s ...

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