no mention of The Ear ("Ucho")? That's a classic 60's one.There's a very good DVD collection in France edited by Malavida for those who understand CZ or can read FR subtitles: http://www.malavidafilms.com/catalogue-cinema-tcheque-32.html
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 09:04 (ten years ago) link
I just finished writing this, when I got an email about a Jiří Menzel retrospective starting next week in my town - maybe I should negociate a night off from baby duties to go and see something - Closely Watched Trains? Or anything less obvious?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 09:11 (ten years ago) link
'valerie' is incredible. probably my single favorite film title, too.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
if you're intending to go and see La belle et la Bete at some point, xyzzzz__, let me know - wd quite like to catch it as well.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 11 January 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link
Oh hi Fizzles I went on Saturday, would've enjoyed to see it w/you.
Certainly go and catch it, think you still got a couple of weeks for that.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:12 (ten years ago) link
Would love to getthis (box set of 22 CZ films 1960-1970.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 15:48 (ten years ago) link
RIP Jan Nemec: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/czech-filmmaker-jan-nemec-dies-79-37772453
― JoeStork, Saturday, 19 March 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link
Damn, the Party and the Guests is so great.
― emil.y, Saturday, 19 March 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
Yes it is.
:-(
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 19 March 2016 18:13 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7PyL-F4n5o
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 March 2016 05:40 (eight years ago) link
Out of the New Wave ones I've seen, I think I like The Joke best of all. It's both pretty unflinching about the horrors of Stalinism but also makes its protagonist such a grouchy, unlikeable jerk and his plot to get revenge so petty that it prevents the film from becoming sentimental or propagandistic about it. That scene where an old friend tells him "I got expelled too, and I didn't turn out like you, your problem is you just hate people" is so funny and relateable.
What little I've read of Kundera's subsequent prose makes me suspect he got up his own arse very quickly but here the sex comedy stuff really works, imo.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 14 July 2017 11:07 (seven years ago) link
I don't remember seeing Forman's Loves of a Blonde before. Near-great comedy about getting laid and the inevitable postcoital letdown.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:40 (seven years ago) link
Big favourite of Ken Loach's
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:55 (seven years ago) link
most of these never show in NY, let alone the USA
https://www.bam.org/film/2019/the-anarchic-cinema-of-vera-chytilova
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 April 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
There was a smaller Ester Krumbachová season and exhibition at the CCA in Glasgow at the start of the year, with some nice pieces from Krumbachová's archive. Excuse the indulgence, but here a couple of pictures I took:
https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/0/47932813-dd59-448e-a1c8-be28bafed37e-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=boundshttps://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/0/7dcdaecd-7491-48f8-8f2f-55ddce43bd46-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds
Some of the Chytilovas have made it onto disc from the excellent Second Run label, but there are definitely some tantalizing obscurities in that bam season. You will have to go to them all on our behalf, Dr M.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 11 April 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
goings-on
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6340-the-czechoslovak-new-wave-rolls-on
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 May 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link
Anyone ever seen the HBO film Stalin that Ivan Passer did with Robert Duvall?
His NYT obit today ends describing the 1991 wrap party... in MOSCOW... during which news of the dissolution of the Soviet Union came.
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6770-from-intimate-lighting-to-cutter-s-way-ivan-passer
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link