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Post by theredcrosseknight on Jun 21, 2017 5:31:21 GMT
Is anyone else interested in this film movement? I personally find it to be fascinating. It grew out of a reaction to the Communist regime of the time and rejected many standard techniques of filmmaking. The result was a series of highly experimental films. Some are not too unusual, but clearly a new direction, like the Academy Award winning "Closely Watched Trains." Others were highly experimental, like "Daisies," but touched on subjects relevant to the time. In the case of the latter for example, an excess and waste of food is a major theme of the spoiled protagonists, and the film came out during a time of major food shortages in the country. Anyone else like these films?
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Post by mikef6 on Nov 2, 2017 20:34:03 GMT
Is anyone else interested in this film movement? I personally find it to be fascinating. It grew out of a reaction to the Communist regime of the time and rejected many standard techniques of filmmaking. The result was a series of highly experimental films. Some are not too unusual, but clearly a new direction, like the Academy Award winning "Closely Watched Trains." Others were highly experimental, like "Daisies," but touched on subjects relevant to the time. In the case of the latter for example, an excess and waste of food is a major theme of the spoiled protagonists, and the film came out during a time of major food shortages in the country. Anyone else like these films? I've seen: Horí, Má Panenko (The Fireman’s Ball) Valerie A Týden Divu (Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders) ...A Páty Jezdec Je Strach (...And The Fifth Horseman Is Fear) Limonádový Joe Aneb Konská Opera (Lemonade Joe) / Oldrich Lipský and, earlier this week: Lásky Jedné Plavovlásky (The Loves Of A Blonde) / Milos Forman I have enjoyed and appreciated all of these films but I can't say I absolutely love them. It is more like respect than love. I find that the history of this movement, the subtle rebellion of it, to be of at least as much interest as the films themselves. Here's to the Czech people. BTW, I am just a little bit biased. My sweet and beautiful daughter-in-law is from the Czech Republic. She and my son were married there so I got the chance to see this beautiful country and meet a lot of wonderful people there. |
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Post by Reynard on Nov 2, 2017 22:06:52 GMT
I have enjoyed and appreciated all of these films but I can't say I absolutely love them. It is more like respect than love. I find that the history of this movement, the subtle rebellion of it, to be of at least as much interest as the films themselves. Here's to the Czech people. I feel that way about a lot of new wave movements and experimental film-making in general. Learning about the backgrounds of these movements is a big part of enjoying what they have to offer. I consider cinema a young art with most of its possibilities still unexplored. However because of their very nature these are not easy films to get into, even for someone who's already well off the beaten path. These films explore ideas and possibilities of cinema in ways that I'm curious about, but their emotions and aesthetics often do not "speak to me" directly in a way that, say, many French and German surrealists do. Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders for example is a beautiful and well-made film in many ways, I would recommend it to anyone's who's curious about getting into this kind of stuff, but it did not fascinate me personally and I do not even own a DVD of it anymore. However I loved Juraj Herz's The Beauty and the Beast and his other film I've seen, Morgana, was very interesting too. Jan Švankmajer is one of my favorite directors. Though he never was part of New Wave, there's definitely a lot of common ground. |
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