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1.Daisies starring: Ivana Karbanová, Jitka Cerhová, Marie Cesková, Jirina Myskova, Marcela Brezinova directed by: Vera Chytilová March 26, 2002
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Director Vera Chytilova's anarchic feminist film from the mid 1960s (right before the Czech new wave movement was broken by the Soviet Invasion that ended the Prague Spring) is hard to describe in terms of plot. Basically, it's about the various antics and gags of two young women. The victims of their practical jokes tend to be established society in general (which exists even in a socialist system as was Czechoslovakia at the time), and older men in particular. Aggressively experimental, the movie uses several types of film stocks, even in a single scene, as well as in your face editing cuts. There are several anti-phallic gags (with the girls cutting while giggling sausages, bananas, etc.) as well as an apocalyptic food fight at the end. It's fun, subversive, but even at a running time of ... Read More

2.Divided We Fall starring: Bolek Polívka, Csongor Kassai, Jaroslav Dusek, Anna Sisková, Martin Huba directed by: Jan Hrebejk April 30, 2002
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I have spent much of my 56 years studying the Holocaust in an amatuer effort to comprehend the incomprehensible. I have found a lot to learn in fiction as well as fact. There are a number of excellent movies with Holocaust themes. "Divided We Fall" deals with the subject through the perspective of a Czech family who hides an escaped Jewish concentration camp inmate. The film begins with a good sequence of scenes that enables us to see the changing roles and relationships between former comrades. We are focussed on one couple and their challenge to cope with the circumstances that are thrust upon them. There is suspense, romance, and a surprising amount of comedy mixed into the film. About midway through the movie (and continuing for awhile) I got the impression that "Divided We Fall" was not a ... Read More

3.Closely Watched Trains starring: Jitka Bendová, Vlastimil Brodský, Kveta Fialová, Václav Fiser, Libuse Havelková July 18, 2000
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Note to American viewers: "Closely Watched Trains" (1966) is one of them "fereign films". It has subtitles and is in black and white (actually a strength as it is superb film stock). The setting is German-occupied Czechoslovakia during WWII. The setting and the use of the Czech resistance movement (to the German occupation) as a plot element may confuse Americans; many of who believe that Czechoslovakia was an Axis country or have never given the subject any thought. But just prior to the start of the war, Britain and France sold out Czechoslovakia. They backed out of their treaties and allowed Hitler to break up the country; establishing the German Protectorates of Bohemia and Moravia and annexing the Sudentenland (which had a significant German population). During the war Czechs served in both ... Read More

4.Kolya starring: Zdenek Sverák, Andrei Chalimon, Libuse Safránková, Ondrej Vetchý, Stella Zázvorková directed by: Jan Sverák August 25, 1998
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This is indeed a charming and a touching story. Other reviewers have covered the plot quite well. I do believe that the characters in the movie are good and acting is quite good as well. Movies like this are uplifting and give person quite a good feeling and offer some hope. In real life people indeed do change, can set aside selfishness and are able to care for one another. What I did not care for so much in the movie were the scenes that were written for the Hollywood audience. The "prophecy" of sending communists to a reservation in Albania, or holing up in the apartment like the allied pilots shot down during WWII, the list goes on. These were not only Hollywoodized, but also presented some obvious hindsight bias that was all too obvious to me as I, like Sverak, grew up behind the Iron Curtain ... Read More

5.My Sweet Little Village starring: János Bán, Marián Labuda, Rudolf Hrusínský, Petr Cepek, Libuse Safránková directed by: Jirí Menzel April 08, 1997
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This movie is a must for everybody who wants to underestand the Czech nature. This is not the Prague, this is the village. The different faces of one country. The great Czecho-Slovak casting features the superb actors of the socialist Czecho-Slovak era. And we should not forget the Hungarian actor playing Otik. A very soft and pleasant journey through even more pleasant Czech village summer. I love this movie and I was looking long time to find it in English... Finally... I think I get it as Xmass present for my wife. She has to underestand... the Czech nature.

6.Valerie & Her Week of Wonders starring: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva, Jirí Prýmek, Jan Klusák directed by: Jaromil Jires January 13, 2004
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When I read Nezval's 1930s novel, I was sure it would work well in a visual medium. The book didn't so much narrate a story as align images against each other, creating a series of vivid visual impressions. This movie captures that sense beautifully. Like the book, this movie offers little in the way of linear story line. Instead, sequences of event show the effect that Valerie's emerging womanhood has on those around her, including men tempted by her young beauty and older women jealous of it. Wantons around her foretell the love life that she'll have some day, and other young beauties reflect her temptation back at her. But, under it all, vampiric beings and shapeshifters carry out rituals with inscrutable purpose. Part of this movie's quirky charm comes from its low-budget effects, part comes ... Read More

7.Faust starring: Petr Cepek, Jan Kraus, Vladimír Kudla, Antonin Zacpal, Jirí Suchý directed by: Jan Svankmajer June 27, 2000
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I purchased this title on a bit of a whim, and after viewing it for the first time I put it on my shelf thinking I would never watch it again. Faust sat on my shelf for about a year. After a year of new experiences and enlightnments I was again ready for faust after a long ensightful nite with my mushy friends. I was up at 6am and wanted to watch a flick and bam there was faust looking me in the face, how could i deny it. During this second viewing I got it and Faust has become my go to movie. This movie is so deep and can be interpereted in a multitude of ways depending on what type of mood you are in while viewing. I find that this movie gets better the more times you watch it, so keep this in mind when purchasing. Again for the record I watched it the first time and did not like it, one year later it is my favorite ... Read More

8.The Elementary School starring: Jan Triska, Zdenek Sverák, Libuse Safránková, Rudolf Hrusínský, Irena Pavlásková directed by: Jan Sverák September 02, 1997
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my most favorite movie of all. five stars. respect.

9.All My Loved Ones starring: Rupert Graves, Josef Abrhám, Jirí Bartoska, Libuse Safránková, Hanna Dunowska directed by: Matej Minac January 13, 2004
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This is a familiar story told with elegance and poignance - about a well-to-do Jewish family in Prague in the late 1930s, as Nazism looms and in the final moments of the film overwhelms them. The joys and sorrows, meanwhile, are those of almost any extended family with brothers pulled in different directions, ranging from a doctor and a concert violinist to an amateur inventor. Another brother shows up who has been on the road with his own carnival. The predictability of the story is countered by rapid scene changes and an attempt to follow the lives of several family members, so that one family crisis quickly falls on the heels of another. The story of Englishman Nicholas Winton, whose efforts saved 669 Jewish children, is only partially told. We meet him briefly at the start of the film and he appears again near the ... Read More

10.Body Without Soul directed by: Wiktor Grodecki October 31, 1997
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The idea of having a porn movie director discuss the business while performing his day job, doing autopsies & showing it, was bizarre. It's basically a documentary with no actual action. I was completely disappointed with this film & could not recommend watching let alone buying it. Save your $.

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