Czech New Wave Filmmakers in Interviews

Rating:
Summary: Finally, loud and clear!
Review: Finally, loud and clear!

With the intimate knowledge of a filmmaker, but with the distance of a writer living in exile, Robert Buchar confronts the very obvious, yet unimaginable for many, marriage of convenience between culture and politics.

Czech New Wave Filmmakers in Interviews is quite a disturbing read, full of raw memories of people who believed in film as an art form, and those who saw their work only as a bothersome migraine, occasionally disrupting their political ambitions.

Buchar's book is a document about a sad period of time and people living and working in a strange industry, deeply implanted in the sick body of a morally bankrupt society. As preventive medicine, this anthology should be prescribed to all aspiring filmmakers, since the Mephistos of our time may wear different coats but live on all continents.

Rating:
Summary: Finally, loud and clear!
Review: Finally, loud and clear!

With the intimate knowledge of a filmmaker, but with the distance of a writer living in exile, Robert Buchar confronts the very obvious, yet unimaginable for many, marriage of convenience between culture and politics.

Czech New Wave Filmmakers in Interviews is quite a disturbing read, full of raw memories of people who believed in film as an art form, and those who saw their work only as a bothersome migraine, occasionally disrupting their political ambitions.

Buchar's book is a document about a sad period of time and people living and working in a strange industry, deeply implanted in the sick body of a morally bankrupt society. As preventive medicine, this anthology should be prescribed to all aspiring filmmakers, since the Mephistos of our time may wear different coats but live on all continents.