Posts Tagged ‘Jan Němec’
The Ghost of Munich
The Prague Post reports on a potentially intriguing film collaboration between two of the elder statesmen of Czech culture: playwright and former president Václav Havel and director Miloš Forman. Inspired by (as opposed to based on) the novel The Ghost of Munich by French journalist Georges-Marc Benamou, it's an account of the British and [...]
Diamonds of the Night
Démanty noci Czechoslovakia, 1964, black and white, 64 minsOne of the earliest Czech New Wave films, Jan Němec's debut feature Diamonds of the Night (Démanty noci) is also one of the most startling, and remains a thrillingly original piece of cinema even today. Shot largely hand-held and virtually dialogue-free, it follows the desperate [...]