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
Things have been pretty harmonious in Eclecticaville for … blimey … 200 episodes! Now that we’ve reached such a landmark, we thought it might be nice to risk a ruck for this special edition, and have the team cover each other’s favourite movies, First up,
Everything is Terrible in Bikinis – Alt-Rebellion as a Means of Disrupting the Patriarchy Daisies is an appropriate film for the exciting realm of Cinema Eclectica. It is a 1960s Czech avante-garde film about two bored girls who decide that, as the world has been
Štefan Uher’s The Miraculous Virgin, released on Blu-Ray for the first time anywhere in the world by Second Run Films, is one of those 1960s Czechoslovak films that’s so freeform in its plotting, so rapturously visual, that it’s hard to imagine it having a script,
Before we get into Second Run’s new release of Věra Chytilová’s debut film and the short that preceded it, let’s take a second to acknowledge that all of Chytilová’s 1960s work (barring her contribution to the 1965 anthology film Pearls of the Deep) is now
This week we’re down a Ryan but gain a surprising amount of Comic trivia along the way. In Off The Shelf we continue our look at the filmography of Vera Chytilova with Second Run’s release of “Something Different”. Rob looks at the baffling Marxist crow
On this episode we find our best idea for a movie yet in the news and launch a new occasional feature. All in a day’s work for us here at Geek Show Towers. We also take a look at the surprising trio of Kon-Tiki, Fruit
The utterly unique career of Věra Chytilová, and the story of Czech cinema in general, finds itself at a crossroads with 1970’s Fruit of Paradise, now released on DVD by Second Run Films. It feels like the product of a golden age; as noted in
This week we give the “Film of the Week” a big old miss, and instead of covering Liam Neeson’s latest outing we take a look at the hordes of action movies that feature “veteran” actors (i.e. pensioners), in their lead roles (a.k.a. Geriaction). We also
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