Some words and sentences linger for months after being read. For Jerzy Kosiński’s “The Painted Bird,” there are entire chapters that continue to haunt me years later. I first read this book in high ...

Writer-director Václav Marhoul spent 11 years working on “The Painted Bird,” his nearly three-hour adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński’s harrowing novel about a young Jewish boy who is subjected to ...

Václav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird is an adaptation of an infamous and controversial book of the same name by a Polish-American writer Jerzy Kosiński, itself a powerful work of fiction based on the ...

I never made it all the way through Jerzy Kosinski’s bleak and brooding 1965 novel “The Painted Bird.” By the time I tried, it had won the National Book Award, and was being recommended to me by ...

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 ...