Jun 10, 2021
Jiří Strach in
Lotrando a Zubejda (Ruffiano and Sweeteeth)
1997, dir. Karel Smyczek IMDB
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Jiří Strach in
Lotrando a Zubejda (Ruffiano and Sweeteeth)
1997, dir. Karel Smyczek IMDB
Petra Černocká and Jan Hrušínský in
Dívka na koštěti (The Girl on the Broomstick)
1972, dir. Václav Vorlíček IMDB
Jiří Pecha in
Lotrando a Zubejda (Ruffiano and Sweeteeth)
1997, dir. Karel Smyczek IMDB
Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (Čtyři vraždy stačí, drahoušku) - Oldřich Lipský, 1971
After parodying old-fashioned Hollywood cowboy movies in Lemonade Joe, the Czech Mel Brooks returned to affectionately lampooning American genres with Four Murders Are Enough, Darling. This time, classic crime flicks and pulp fiction are the targets, and Oldřich Lipský apparently never encountered a gag that he didn’t deem unworthy for inclusion in his movies. I say that in the best possible…
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Prefab Story (Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliště) - Věra Chytilová, 1979
When I first visited Prague at the tail end of the ’90s, I was captivated by the city to the extent that it dominated my every waking thought. Like millions of visitors each year, it was the historic centre’s visual splendour that first set my heart racing, but it wasn’t long before I got to know the less postcard-friendly side as well. Attending a teaching course in the freezing winter of early…
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Bikers (Bajkeři) - Martin Kopp, 2017
Bikers (Bajkeři) – Martin Kopp, 2017
I have a confession to make. Lately, I have become addicted to lame Czech raunchy comedies. There are dozens on Netflix right now and I have the strange urge to crack through every single one of them, even though I know they will be mostly terrible. I don’t know why this craving has emerged, but I’m currently taking heavy doses of Ingmar Bergman and Carl Theodor Dreyer to help overcome this nasty…
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Shotgun Justice, aka The Lady Terrorist (Teroristka) - Radek Bajgar, 2019
Shotgun Justice, aka The Lady Terrorist (Teroristka) – Radek Bajgar, 2019
A movie about a 70-year-old woman who goes all Charles Bronson on a bunch of thugs? Half the fun of writing it must have been thinking up a title. Granny Get Your Gun immediately springs to mind, or, given the spaghetti western motifs in Jiří Hájek’s score, how about A Fistful of Werther’s? No, wait! A Mouthful of Dentures? Or, considering what must have been the film’s main influence, we could…
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Men in Hope (Muži v naději) - Jiří Vejdělek, 2011
Men in Hope (Muži v naději) – Jiří Vejdělek, 2011
As Ronan Keating, that perennial purveyor of pop pap, once sang: “Life is a rollercoaster, just gotta ride it” – that’s the happy-go-lucky ethos of Men in Hope‘s Rudolf (Bolek Polívka), an ageing lothario and Prague cabbie with 138 extra-marital affairs under his belt. He even had a very movie-land former career as an international rollercoaster designer, providing him ample opportunity to cheat…
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