Atop a Throne of Ashes: On Juraj Herz’s ‘The Cremator’
Far from being escapist entertainment, Herz's The Cremator is a dissection of evil and how deluded one becomes in willing themselves to power.
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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.