2.2K views · 44 reactions | Vladislav Vančura’s Marketa Lazarová is considered a masterpiece of Czech interwar modernism. The epic novel (1931) uses experimental language to portray a feud between two families in medieval Bohemia and is the basis for one of the country’s most revered films. https://rozhl.as/3VF | Radio Prague | Facebook

"I did enjoy the Czech film 'Closely Watched Trains' (1966, Menzel). That was a very good picture." Alfred Hitchcock History of culture: https://www.historyofculture.cloud/index.php/category/history-of-cinema/ | History of Cinema

Holiday Inn (1942), directed by Mark Sandrich, music by Irving Berlin Mark Sandrich blends story and song so seamlessly that, as Bosley Crowther observed, “one hardly knows where the story ends and a song begins,” a rare feat in the musical form. The film moves with a rhythm of its own, each camera angle, each lighting choice, each musical number is timed to the heartbeat of celebration. Bing Crosby’s voice, the tap of Fred Astaire, the winter light through frosted windows, together shape a holi