‘Lída Baarová’ movie review: tragic tale of famed 1930s Czech actress
She was the Czech version of Marlene Dietrich, but this campy Third Reich melodrama doesn’t do her justice
January 22, 2016
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She was the Czech version of Marlene Dietrich, but this campy Third Reich melodrama doesn’t do her justice
The Greatest American Detective comes to Prague in Dinner for Adele, a strange, surreal mystery-comedy from acclaimed director Oldřich Lipský
The spirit of the USA’s Wild West is alive and well in Czech Republic tramping culture, as witnessed by the new film Amerika
Home Care was one of two Czech films in competition at this year’s Karlovy Vary film festival, along with the far superior The Snake Brothers
Mallory follows its subject through a number of years; director Helena Třeštíková first began filming Mallory when she gave birth in 2002
The Little Man (Malý Pán) is a live-action puppet movie brought to life through the use of marionettes controlled off-screen by skilled puppeteers
Irena Pavlásková’s new Jan Saudek biopic Fotograf claims to be “loosely based” on events in the famed Czech photographer’s life
The Snake Brothers stars real-life brothers Matěj and Kryštof Hádek as a pair of down-and-out small-town siblings whose relationship is tenuous at best
Petr Jákl’s Ghoul was filmed in English with an international cast of actors, and shot in the Czech Republic, Ukraine, and California
Despite being sold as a bouncy holiday-season romance, Pohádkář (English title: Storyteller) is anything but
Magický hlas rebelky (The Magic Voice of a Rebel) is a compelling new documentary that follows Kubišová’s humble beginnings to Prague Spring fame
Parádně pokecal (titled Totally Talking in English) is the debut feature from writer-director and FAMU graduate Tomáš Pavlíček
Director Miroslav Krobot combines elements of biting satire with droll comedy in Nowhere in Moravia (Díra u Hanušovic)
Lousy Bastards skirts around the premise of Susanne Bier’s film so openly that you wonder if it is an unofficial remake
The Way Out is like a punch to the gut: gritty, honest, and vividly realized, this is not a social polemic but a captivating look at the Czech Roma minority
Olga is not a definitive biography of the former First Lady, but paints an intimate picture of its subject with a fitting warmth and humanity
Hany follows a diverse group of youths over the course of a single night, was shot in one long, virtuoso single take that comprises the length of the film
Signál, the latest film from director Tomáš Řehořek, starts out with a can’t-miss premise but eventually turns into a muddle
Is Juraj Herz’s The Cremator the best Czech horror film ever made?
Karel Fiala stars as a soft-drinkin’ cowboy in director Oldřich Lipský’s classic 1964 musical western
Jan Hřebejk’s Svatá čtveřice (4Some, retitled from The Holy Quaternity in English) takes a look at two families sleeping around with each other
The Butcher of Prague is an admirable but ultimately underwhelming film version of the Heydrich assassination and Lidice massacre
Vendeta is a refreshingly old-fashioned revenge thriller that features the kind of no-nonsense filmmaking you don’t see any more
Obscurantist and His Lineage is an overwhelming, almost indecipherable deluge of religious, spiritual, and metaphysical gobbledygook