Czech director Jiri Menzel’s Closely Watched Trains (Ostre sledovane vlaky) was the recipient of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1967. Based on Bohumil Hrabal’s novel of the same name, it tells the end of innocence for a railroad worker who is not very bright and has not much of a career [...]
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Closely Watched Trains-1966
Posted in Czech cinema, tagged 100 Best Films, Eastern European cinema, heroism, loss of innocence, trainspotting, war on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Forbidden Games-1952
Posted in French cinema, tagged 100 Best Films, collective memory, evil of war, experience on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jeux interdits in French is a film by René Clément and based on François Boyer’s novel of the same name.
Let me sketch out the opening scene:
During the Nazi invasion of France in 1940 the road out of Paris is clogged with those escaping the city. They are strafed by Nazi fighter planes. Among the panic [...]
You Asked For It!
Posted in anecdotes, tagged Dorothy Parker, George S. Kauffman, interviews, Press on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Once at the Algonquin round table, Dorothy Parker reported sadly,”My old cat, that I’ve loved so dearly has grown so feeble and helpless that I’m going to have him put away.”She added she was wondering the most humane way to do it. It elicited this comment from Playwright George S. Kaufman: “Have you thought of [...]
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