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Tag: Czech New Wave

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Avant-Garde to New Wave: Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties

Avant-Garde to New Wave: Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties

The French New Wave was not the only new wave of the 1960s: during a temporary loosening of the Communist regime’s hold on culture, Czechoslovakia had its own new wave that produced films just as...

Feb 26, 2013 / Alison Frank
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Surviving ‘Surviving Life’

Surviving ‘Surviving Life’

At the screening I attended of Jan Švankmajer’s Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) (2010), there were two walk-outs. I was tempted to follow, but my love of the great Czech animator’s previous work...

Jan 9, 2012 / Alison Frank
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Berlin 2011: New offerings from familiar names

Berlin 2011: New offerings from familiar names

Tom Tykwer's "Three" The complete line-up of films for this year’s Berlinale has just been announced. This time next week, I’ll be reporting for The Moving Arts Journal direct from Berlin. In the...

Feb 4, 2011 / Alison Frank
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‘Krull’ Weddings: The Awkward Teenage Years of Movie Marketing

‘Krull’ Weddings: The Awkward Teenage Years of Movie Marketing

Like the plot of a dystopian fairy tale, the marketing campaign for last summer’s blockbuster “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” was a well-oiled machine selling a film about machines. We saw...

Aug 16, 2010 / Tim Kirk
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