Horror and History Collide in Czech Director Jan S. Kolár’s Silent Films
Two long-forgotten Czech silent films by pioneer Jan S. Kolár are not only artifacts of a fragile history but lessons in how historical legacy will try to kill you.
Czech cinema
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass’ Mesmeric Mythology
The Quay Brothers’ version of Bruno Schulz’s Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass is equivocal and bursting with plump metaphors ripe for interpretation.
‘Marketa Lazarova’, a Haunting Czech Epic, Will Entrance You
Feel the terrifying beauty of being lost in Czech film Marketa Lazarova‘s alien world and you will be rewarded with a grounding, perhaps even a comfort in the dystopian present.
Like Dreams Riveted in the Dark: ‘Pearls of the Czech New Wave’
As this Czech New Wave collection makes clear, if people are unwilling to address their problems, those problems infiltrate their dreams. A movie, like a dream, has a person riveted in the dark.