Renowned Czech writer-director Petr Zelenka’s latest film is variously a bizarre political black comedy, a clever slice of speculative historical revisionism, and its own ingenious […]
One of the great unsung films of the Czechoslovak New Wave has been digitally restored by the Slovak Film Institute. Superstition reigns in a mountain […]
Let the games begin! In the late 1960s, Alain Robbe-Grillet, the screenwriter of Alain Resnais’ immortal arthouse classic Last Year in Marienbad, and one of […]
This much loved comedy is Jiří Menzel’s third feature-length adaptation of a novel by Bohumil Hrabal, drawing from the legendary Czech author’s memories of childhood […]
Popular Czech director Alice Nellis has tried her hand at the fantasy genre with this adaptation of a beloved fairy tale collected and published variously […]
One of the great cult classics of Czechoslovak cinema has just been digitally restored by the National Film Archive in Prague. New Yorker Nick Carter […]
Comic books and cinema, reality and dreams. All collide as never before in this extraordinarily inventive, zany, CinemaScope sci-fi comedy from director Václav Vorlíček, featuring […]
CaSFFA’s 2016 Opening Night film comes hot from the “East of the West” competition at Karlovy Vary. Jiří Sádek’s remarkable debut feature is an HBO […]
Often declared the greatest Czech film ever made, this adaptation of Vladislav Vančura’s novel is a hallucinatory medieval epic, pitting clan against clan and Christians […]
Structurally reminiscent of Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima mon amour, this film from the celebrated pairing of Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos is based on Ladislav Mňačko’s […]
In one of the great anthology films, five leading lights of the burgeoning Czechoslovak New Wave – a dream line-up of Jiří Menzel, Jan Němec, […]
