Of all the cinematic New Waves that broke over the world in the 1960s, the one in Czechoslovakia was among the most fruitful, fascinating, and radical. With a wicked sense of humor and a healthy streak of surrealism, a group of fearless directors—including Miloš Forman (THE FIREMEN’S BALL), Vera Chytilová (DAISIES), Jiří Menzel (CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS), Jaromil Jireš (VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS), Jan Němec (A REPORT ON THE PARTY AND GUESTS), and Juraj Herz (THE CREMATOR)—risked censorship and began to use film to speak out about the hypocrisy and absurdity of the Communist state. Ranging in style from the dazzlingly experimental to the arrestingly realistic, these revolutionary transmissions from a singular time and place stand as models of art as a tool of political resistance.
Firemen's Ball - DVD Criterion Collection Czech New Wave Sealed
The Czechoslovak New Wave Rolls On, Current
The Criterion Collection
Marketa Lazarova' Hits Criterion: Unpacking the Czech New Wave
Czechoslovak New Wave - The Criterion Channel
Daisies' Blu-ray Review: The Criterion Collection
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Loves of a Blonde immediately became a classic of the Czech New Wave and earned Milos Forman the first of his Academy Award nominations Includes
Loves of a Blonde (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]
Blu-Ray Review, Diamonds of the Night
NEW WAVE
Ester Krumbachová: Phantom of the Czechoslovak New Wave
