Tag: Czech Cinema

Ordinary Failures | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review

It’s Only the End of the World: Groșan Navigates a Triptych of Displaced Women in Pre-Apocalyptic Intersection What’s perhaps most fitting about the commonalities between...

Havel | 2020 Warsaw International Film Festival Review

Polarizing Play: Horák’s Questionable Take on the Hero of the Velvet Revolution Covering the personal timeline of any major politician would be a daunting task...

The Painted Bird | Review

Cruel Intentions: Marhoul Razes & Repulses in Torturous, Ambitious WWII Saga Czech actor/director Václav Marhoul mounts a sadistic nightmare of Holocaust horrors via his third...

Criterion Collection: Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman | Blu-ray Review

If cinema can be viewed as an evolutionary form, a missing link would certainly be Czech director Karel Zemen. One must first ruminate on...

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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’

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Die My Love | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Chie Hayakawa’s ‘Renoir’

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Des preuves d’amour (Love Letters) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Evidence of Love: Douard’s Debut Reads Between the Lines...