Ivan Passer's "Law and Disorder" is a gentle, touching, sometimes disruptively funny movie about—among other things — ignorance, prejudice, rape, larceny, the failure of small dreams, about people trying desperately to cope and often coming apart. It stars Carroll O'Connor as a taxicab driver and Ernest Borgnine as an ex-Marine, who is a hairdresser with a passion for guns. The...
The life of cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond. From the streets of Budapest to Hollywood he describes his out of the ordinary journey. Many performers, including John Travolta and Nancy Allen, and famous cinematographers talk, question him and we discover a complete artist.
The 2-part feature-length documentary "25 ze edesátych aneb eskoslovenská nová vlna" ("25 from the Sixties, or Czechoslovak New Wave") presents a complex view of the phenomenon of Czech and Slovak New Wave in the cultural and social context of the 60's. 25 fundamental films commented on by their makers and film historians offer the viewer a dramatic insight into the golden er...
A close-up look at Hollywood’s annual awards ceremony that mixes intimate behind-the-scenes views with deadpan comedy, featuring Lily Tomlin as a mousy homemaker watching the Oscars in her suburban home (Tomlin was also up for Best Supporting Actress for Nashville that year).
This short work about Czech provincial life and amateur music-making foreshadows such great films as Milos Forman's Loves of a Blonde and Fireman's Ball and Ivan Passer's Intimate Lighting, that came just a few years later, but it never quite comes together or catches flight.
Because I am fascinated by these two filmmakers, I found it to be of some interest, but it's unlikely t...
'A man is immortal as long as he lives in the memory of others,' said the world-renowned Czech author with a wry smile. When her father turned 80, his daughter who is the filmmaker, began to see just how closely his words applied to him personally. Employing his notorious sense of humor and accompanied by friends including the Czech dissident ex-president and most creative of t...
