There aren’t many literary adaptations which begin with an apology to the source author – although there are plenty that should. But Pavel Juráček’s A Case for a Rookie Hangman, reissued on Blu-Ray by Second Run, is not like most films. It begins by promising “If Swift should turn in his […]
Věra Chytilová
Cinema Eclectica 200 – Tiny Jack Nicholson In My Pocket
Daisies (1966) A High-Punk, High-Art, High-Feminist one of a Kind (Review)
The Miraculous Virgin (1966) a virtuoso exercise of imagery & poetry (Review)
Something Different / A Bagful of Fleas (1962-3) breezy, charming and fiercely political (Review)
Cinema Eclectica 56 – Dai Impossible: Welsh Superspy
John Wick – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 15
Fruit of Paradise (1970) Vera Chytilova, Free-Form and Unchained (Review)
Kumiko the Treasure Hunter – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 11
Traps (1998) Rape Revenge Black Comedy as channelled through Czech subversion (Review)
The Czech director Věra Chytilová is best known internationally for her 1966 film Daisies, a ferocious, antic and relentlessly original comedy about two young women carrying out a Dadaist rebellion against the staidness of Czechoslovakian society. Although Daisies seems to become more and more acclaimed as a classic with each […]