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1. The Czechoslovak New Wave - A Collection (3 Film Box Set) [DVD]
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The Czechoslovak New Wave Collection - 3-DVD Box Set ( Dmanty noci / Intimni osvetleni / Spalovac mThe Czechoslovak New Wave Collection - 3-DVD Box Set
Dmanty noci / Intimni osvetleni / Spalovac mrtvol
Diamonds of the Night / Intimate Lighting / The Cremator
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A 3-disc set comprising three integral features from the most creative period of Czechoslovak cinema. Despite being made under the gaze of Government censors, these films achieved a miraculous marriage of content and form despite the most oppressive circumstances. Set includes:Diamonds of the Night (1964): Nemec's debut feature is one of the most thrilling and startlingly original works of cinema. Told almost without dialogue, it chronicles the tense and desperate journey of two teenage boys who are trying to stay alive after escaping from a German train bound for a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
Intimate Lighting (1965): One of the most highly-regarded films of the 60s, Passer's wonderfully subtle comedy of provincial life concerns the dreams of two musician friends, one of whom, having left their small hometown to become successful, returns to visit the other who stayed behind to become a local music teacher. A work of great originality and universal acceptance.
The Cremator (1968): Set in Prague during the Nazi occupation, this chilling mix of Dr Strangelove and Repulsion, is a pitch-black comedy of horrors featuring an outstanding performance by the great Rudolf Hrusnsk as a professional cremator, for whom the political climate allows free rein to his increasingly deranged impulses for the 'salvation of the world'.
2. Something Different / A Bagful Of Fleas - Two Films By Vera Chytilova [DVD]
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Something Different / A Bagful of Fleas ( O necem jinem / Pytel blech ) ( There's a Bagfull of FleasSomething Different / A Bagful of Fleas
O necem jinem / Pytel blech
There's a Bagfull of Fleas at the Ceiling
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT follows the lives of two women a gymnast in gruelling training (real life Olympic gold-medallist Eva Boskov), and a dissatisfied housewife (V?ra Uzelacov). The two strands never meet, but provide a progressive comment on each other and the differing roles of the women. In A BAGFUL OF FLEAS, the everyday world of young factory girls lives in the cotton mills of Nchod conflict with officialdom.
The late, great Czech filmmaker V?ra Chytilov (DAISIES, FRUIT OF PARADISE) was one of the Czech New Wave s most rebellious, irreverent and boundary-breaking talents. A vibrant innovator whose uncompromising vision in a decidedly male-run industry made her known as the First Lady of Czech Cinema .
These two terrific early works introduce themes evident across her career: a progressive female viewpoint in a world of double standards and predatory sexualisation dominated by men, the expectations and strictures of female gender roles, and a strong critique of contemporary society. Combining elements of cinema vrit and formalism, and spiked with anarchic humour, her films broke with both genre and ideology and charted a new path for Czechoslovak and Eastern European cinema.
SPECIAL TWO-FILM EDITION CONTENTS
3. Pandora's Box (The Criterion Collection)
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One of the masters of early German cinema, G.W. Pabst had an innate talent for discovering actresses (including Greta Garbo). And perhaps none of his female stars shone brighter than Kansas native and onetime Ziegfeld girl Louise Brooks, whose legendary persona was defined by Pabsts lurid, controversial melodrama Pandoras Box. Sensationally modern, the film follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone she comes in contact with. Daring and stylish, Pandoras Box is one of silent cinemas great masterworks, and a testament to Brookss dazzling individuality.4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (The Criterion Collection)
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'I was born under unusual circumstances.' And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.5. The Czechoslovak New Wave
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The Czechoslovak New Wave was originally published in 1985 and was quickly established as the world's leading authoritative English-language text. A study of the most significant movement in post-war Central and East European cinemas, it examines the origins of a movement against the political and cultural developments of the 1960s leading to the Prague Spring of 1968. Peter Hames also summarizes key aspects of Czech and Slovak histories between the wars and in the 1940s and 1950s. Directors discussed include Milos Forman, Jan Svankmajer, Jiri Menzel, Jan Nemec.6. The Teacher
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**FROM THE ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED DIRECTOR OF DIVIDED WE FALL**In a middle school classroom in Bratislava in 1983, a new teacher, Maria Drazdechova (Maurery), asks each student to stand up, introduce themselves and tell her what their parents do for a living. It slowly becomes clear that perhaps the pupils' grades are related to how willing their guardians are open to helping her out with her errands, her housecleaning, and other random services. After one of the students attempts suicide, however, the director of the school has no choice but to call for an emergency parents' meeting to remove the teacher, but because Ms. Drazdechova is also a high-ranking official of the Communist Party, parents are hesitant to sign a petition to transfer her out. In a classroom behind the Iron Curtain, the future of all the families are at stake, as the film examines how each family must wrestle with standing up for what they believe in or silently keep the status quo.
Bonus feature includes short film, Sacrilege and Director's Statement.
7. Daisies (Sedmikrasky) (1966)
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