Janus Films
Series
Criterion collection volume 761
Language
Czech
Description
A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies.
Series
Criterion collection volume 145
Language
Czech
Description
In a small provincial town, arrangements and events surrounding the firemen's annual ball, honoring a retiring firechief, go wrong at every turn.
Series
Criterion collection volume 661
Language
Czech
Description
Based on a novel by Vladislav Vanécura, this stirring and poetic depiction of a feud between two rival medieval clans is a fierce, epic, and meticulously designed evocation of the clashes between Christianity and Pagansim, humankind and nature, and love and violence.
Language
Czech
Description
Sedmikrasky = Daises: Two teenage girls decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them.
O slavnosti a hostech = A report on the party and guests: A group of happy picnickers are accosted by a group of strangers led by a bullying sadist who has an unbreakable hold over his followers. After he interrogates one of them,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 661
Language
Czech
Description
Based on a novel by Vladislav Vancura, this stirring and poetic depiction of a feud between two rival medieval clans is a fierce, epic, and meticulously designed evocation of the clashes between Christianity and pagansim, humankind and nature, and love and violence.
Language
Czech
Description
Rozmarné léto: Three middle-aged men have their summer interrupted by the arrival of a circus performer and his beautiful assistant.
Žert: A man is expelled form the Communist Party due to a joke. After he is released from working the mines and prison, he plots revenge against the person who betrayed him.
Language
Czech
Description
"A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement's directors. Based on the stories by the legendary writer, Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally chilling to the caustically observant to the casually romantic, but all have a cutting, wily view of the world"--Container.
Smrt pana Baltazara = Mr. Baltazar's death: A group of aimless, nostalgia-inclined...