Feb 23
Jiří Menzel, February 23, 1938 – September 5, 2020
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Jiří Menzel, February 23, 1938 – September 5, 2020
French grande for CAPRICIOUS SUMMER - un été capricieux (Jiri Menzel, Czechoslovakia, 1968). Artist F. Dervanore.
Have you seen Closely Watched Trains (1966)?
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Pearls of the deep (Vera Chytilová & Jaromil Jires & Jirí Menzel & Jan Nemec & Evald Schorm, 1965)
Closely Watched Trains (1966), Jirí Menzel
Pearls of the Deep (1966)
Jirí Menzel
- Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
1979
SUBLIME CINEMA #435 - CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS
One of the great films of the Czechoslovak New Wave. Jiri Menzel passed away last year of COVID and I didn’t even know it. He was responsible for some fantastic work, including the banned Lark on a String which was shot soon after this one, but then was forced into a government induced purgatory for decades. Closely Watched Trains and Loves of a Blonde are two of my favorite Czechoslovakian films from that period but Milos Forman ended up with an illustrious career outside of his home country, while Menzel sharpened his craft under the censorship regime.