Jan Tríska

  • Karel Zeman – Pohádky tisíce a jedné noci AKA A Thousand and One Nights (1974)

    1971-1980AnimationCzech RepublicFantasyKarel Zeman
    Pohádky tisíce a jedné noci (1974)
    Pohádky tisíce a jedné noci (1974)

    AMG: In this animated feature-length movie, five different exploits of Sinbad the sailor (originally five separate “shorts” created between 1971-1974) get him mixed up with the pretty daughters of exotic potentates, with powerful monsters that threaten his existence, and with all sorts of teeming jungle life. As Sinbad triumphs over adversity, parents should be warned that some scenes of unexpected cruelty and questionable ethics (the Old Man of the Sea has his head crushed while he is too drunk to know what he is doing), may not be the best fare for smaller totsRead More »

  • Jan Svankmajer – Sílení AKA Lunacy (2005)

    2001-2010ArthouseCzech RepublicHorrorJan Svankmajer

    A horror movie testing two approaches to running an insane asylum – absolute freedom versus control and punishment – within the context of a world that combines the worst of both. Jean Berlot, a young man subject to a nightmare of being forced into a straitjacket by two orderlies, is befriended by a marquis. At the marquis’s estate, Jean witnesses a black Mass, buries someone alive, and is invited to try preventive therapy. He’s willing to enter a sanatorium because he believes he can rescue a young woman from there who has told him that the real director and staff of the clinic are locked in the basement. Jean conspires with her to set them free: the horrors have only begun.Read More »

  • Jan Svankmajer – Sílení AKA Lunacy (2005) (HD)

    2001-2010Czech RepublicHorrorJan SvankmajerPhilosophy

    IMDb wrote:
    A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man may’ve predicted.

    Quote:
    The classic stories of Edgar Allan Poe and the Marquis de Sade are filtered through the creative mind of noted surrealist Jan Svankmajer in a philosophical horror film that probes the darkest depths of the human mind.Read More »

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