Editing Krzysztof Kieślowski (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Popiersie Krzysztof Kieślowski ssj 20071009.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Bronze bust of Kieślowski |Bust of Kieślowski, Celebrity Alley, Kielce, Poland]]
Kieślowski remains one of Europe's most influential directors, his works included in the study of film classes at universities throughout the world. The 1993 book ''Kieślowski on Kieślowski'' describes his life and work in his own words, based on interviews by Danusia Stok. He is also the subject of a [[biographical film]], ''Krzysztof Kieślowski: I'm So-So'' (1995), directed by Krzysztof Wierzbicki.

After Kieślowski's death, [[Harvey Weinstein]], then head of [[Miramax|Miramax Films]], which distributed the last four Kieślowski films in the US, wrote a eulogy for him in ''[[Premiere (magazine)|Premiere]]'' magazine.<ref name=weinstein>Harvey Weinstein, [https://www.filmweb.pl/person/Krzysztof+Kieślowski-250/discussion/Harvey+Weinstein+o+Krzysztofie+Kieślowskim-1367071 In Memoriam – Krzysztof Kieślowski], ''[[Premiere (magazine)|Premiere]]'', June 1996 www.filmweb.pl Retrieved 10 November 2024</ref>

Though he had claimed to be retiring after ''Three Colours'', at the time of his death, Kieślowski was working on a new trilogy co-written with Piesiewicz, consisting of ''Heaven'', ''Hell'', and ''Purgatory'' and inspired by [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]'s ''[[The Divine Comedy]]''. As was originally intended for ''Dekalog'', the scripts were ostensibly intended to be given to other directors for filming, but Kieślowski's untimely death means it is unknown whether he might have broken his self-imposed retirement to direct the trilogy himself. The only completed screenplay, ''[[Heaven (2002 film)|Heaven]]'', was filmed by [[Tom Tykwer]] and premiered in 2002 at the [[Berlin International Film Festival]]. 
The other two scripts existed only as thirty-page treatments at the time of Kieślowski's death; Piesiewicz has since completed these screenplays, with ''[[Hell (2005 film)|Hell]]'', directed by Bosnian director [[Danis Tanović]] and starring [[Emmanuelle Béart]], released in 2005. 
''Purgatory'', about a photographer killed in the Bosnian war, remains unproduced.<ref name="guardian">{{cite news|last=Goodman |first=Lanie |title=Lanie Goodman meets director Danis Tanovic |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/apr/14/1 |date=14 April 2006 |access-date=10 November 2011}}</ref> 
The 2007 film  ''[[Hope (2007 film)|Nadzieja (Hope)]]'', directed by Ibo Kurdo and Stanislaw Mucha, also scripted by Piesiewicz, has been incorrectly identified as the third part of the trilogy, but is in fact, an unrelated project.<ref name="guardian2">{{cite news|last=Bradshaw |first=Peter |title=Hope (Nadzieja) |newspaper=The Guardian  |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/apr/18/worldcinema.drama1 |date=18 April 2008 |access-date=10 November 2011}}</ref>

[[Jerzy Stuhr]], who starred in several Kieślowski films and co-wrote ''Camera Buff'', filmed his own adaptation of an unfilmed Kieślowski script as ''[[The Big Animal]]'' (''Duże zwierzę'') in 2000.

[[File:Kieslowski Powazki.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Photo of Kieślowski's grave|Kieślowski's grave]]
In an interview given at [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]] in 1995, Kieślowski said:<ref name="oxford"/><blockquote>
It comes from a deep-rooted conviction that if there is anything worthwhile doing for the sake of culture, then it is touching on subject matters and situations which link people, and not those that divide people. There are too many things in the world which divide people, such as religion, politics, history, and nationalism. ... Feelings are what link people together, because the word 'love' has the same meaning for everybody. Or 'fear', or 'suffering'. We all fear the same way and the same things. And we all love in the same way. That's why I tell about these things, because in all other things I immediately find division.</blockquote>

In the foreword to ''Dekalog: The Ten Commandments'', American filmmaker [[Stanley Kubrick]] wrote:<ref name="decalogue">{{cite book|last1=Kieślowski |first1=Krzysztof |last2=Piesiewicz |first2=Krzysztof |title=Decalogue: The Ten Commandments |publisher=Faber and Faber |location=London |year=1991 |isbn=978-0571144983}}</ref> 
{{blockquote|I am always reluctant to single out some particular feature of the work of a major filmmaker because it tends inevitably to simplify and reduce the work. But in this book of screenplays by Krzysztof Kieślowski and his co-author, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, it should not be out of place to observe that they have the very rare ability to dramatize their ideas rather than just talking about them. By making their points through the dramatic action of the story they gain the added power of allowing the audience to discover what's really going on rather than being told. They do this with such dazzling skill, you never see the ideas coming and don't realize until much later how profoundly they have reached your heart.

Stanley Kubrick
January 1991<ref name="kubrik">{{cite web|title=Kubrick on Kieślowski |publisher=Visual Memory |url=http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0078.html |access-date=19 May 2012}}</ref>}}

In 2012, [[Cyrus Frisch]] voted for ''A Short Film About Killing'' as one of "the best-damned films" with the comment: "In Poland, this film was instrumental in the abolition of the death penalty."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120827010134/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/920 Analysis: The Greatest Films of All Time 2012, Cyrus Frisch] The best-damned film Institute, bfi.org, n.d.,. Retrieved 6 June 2017</ref> Since 1952, ''[[Sight & Sound]]'' magazine conducts a poll every ten years of the world's finest film directors to determine the Ten Greatest Films of All Time, which has become the most recognised poll of its kind in the world.<ref>Roger Ebert [http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/the-best-damned-film-list-of-them-all The best-damned film list of them all] www.rogerebert.com, 5 April 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2017</ref>

Since 2011, the Polish Contemporary Art Foundation In Situ has been organizing The Sokołowsko Film Festival: Hommage à Kieślowski. It is an annual film festival in [[Sokołowsko]], where Kieślowski spent a part of his youth, and commemorates the director's work with screenings of his films, as well as films of younger generations of filmmakers both from Poland and Europe, accompanied by creative workshops, panel discussions, performances, exhibitions and concerts.<ref>[http://www.hommageakieslowski.pl/en/about-the-festival Hommage à Krzysztof Kieślowski Festival- About] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190606002739/http://www.hommageakieslowski.pl/en/about-the-festival |date=6 June 2019 }}, [[In Situ Contemporary Art Foundation]], 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2017</ref>

On June 27, 2021, [[Google]] celebrated his 80th birthday with a [[Google Doodle]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://doodles.google/doodle/krzysztof-kieslowskis-80th-birthday/ |title=Krzysztof Kieślowski's 80th Birthday |website=Google |date=27 June 2021 }}</ref>