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LIST CANDIDATE: FAUST (1994)
DIRECTED BY: Jan Svankmajer FEATURING: Petr Cepek PLOT: A grim “Everyman” is lured to a decaying theater and prompted to re-enact an adaptation of the Faust legend, with the lines of reality and...
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LIST CANDIDATE: LUNACY [SILENI] (2005)
DIRECTED BY: Jan Svankmajer FEATURING: Pavel Liska, Jan Tríska, Anna Geislerová PLOT: A mentally unbalanced man meets a modern day Marquis de Sade who convinces him to check himself into a bizarre...
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CAPSULE: PEARLS OF THE DEEP (1966)
DIRECTED BY: Jirí Menzel, Jan Nemec, Evald Schorm, Vera Chytilová, Jaromil Jires FEATURING: Pavla Marsálková, Milos Ctrnacty, Frantisek Havel, Josefa Pechlatová, Václav Zák, Vera Mrázkova, Vladimír...
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115. A REPORT ON THE PARTY AND GUESTS (1966)
O slavnosti a hostech “When one lives in a society that is essentially not free, it is the obligation of every thinking person to attack obstacles to freedom in every way at his disposal.”–Jan Nemec...
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116. DAISIES (1966)
Sedmikrásky “If there’s something you don’t like, don’t keep to the rules – break them. I’m an enemy of stupidity and simple-mindedness in both men and women and I have rid my living space of these...
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120. FANTASTIC PLANET [LA PLANETE SAUVAGE] (1973)
“Cinema is showing more and more. It’s a paranoid, dictatorial cinema. And it’s saying less and less. We need a schizophrenic cinema.”–Rene Laloux DIRECTED BY: FEATURING: Eric Baugin, Jennifer Drake,...
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125. LITTLE OTIK (2000)
Otesánek; AKA Greedy Guts “I do not work with intentions… That has nothing to do with freedom of the imagination… My preference is certainly for subsequent interpretation rather than intention. In...
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CAPSULE: BATHORY (2008)
AKA Bathory: Countess of Blood DIRECTED BY: Juraj Jakubisk FEATURING: Anna Friel, Karel Roden, Vincent Regan, Hans Matheson, Deana Horváthová, Franco Nero PLOT: Fictionalized chronicle of the life,...
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136. VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (1970)
Valerie a Týden Divu “…one of those haunting, dream-like films that once seen is difficult to forget.”–Tanya Krzywinska DIRECTED BY: Jaromil Jires FEATURING: Jaroslava Schallerova, Petr Kopriva, Helena...
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LIST CANDIDATE: TOYS IN THE ATTIC (2009)
Na pude; Na pude aneb Kdo má dneska narozeniny? DIRECTED BY: Jirí Barta FEATURING: Vivian Schilling, Douglas Urbanski, Forest Whitaker, Cary Elwes, Joan Cusak (US dubbed version) PLOT: When the doll...
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226. CONSPIRATORS OF PLEASURE (1996)
Spiklenci Slasti “Conspirators is actually a film about liberation, and about gaining a freedom.”–Jan Svankmajer explaining why he considered Conspirators his most Surrealistic film up to that point...
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228. LEMONADE JOE (1964)
Limonádový Joe aneb Konská Opera [Lemonade Joe, or the Horse Opera] “What was before my eyes was both familiar and eerily strange.”–Danilo H. Figueredo, in Revolvers and Pistolas, Vaqueros and...
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CAPSULE: THE OSSUARY AND OTHER TALES (2013)
DIRECTED BY: Jan Svankmajer FEATURING: Various PLOT: The collection of short films on this disc range from people-puppet tellings of classic opera to unconventional documentaries, as well as examples...
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250. THE CREMATOR (1969)
Spalovac Mrtvol “The Lord arranged it very well when he told people: ‘Remember, dust thou art and to dust thou returnest.’ A crematorium, dear friends, is clearly a God-pleasing object, because it...
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CAPSULE: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST [PANNA A NETVOR] (1978)
AKA The Virgin and the Monster DIRECTED BY: Juraj Herz FEATURING: Zdena Studenková, Vlastimil Harapes PLOT: A virtuous, virginal merchant’s daughter pledges to live in a magical Beast’s castle to save...
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355. LUNACY (2005)
Sílení “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”–Edgar Allen Poe, 1848 letter to George W. Eveleth DIRECTED BY: Jan Svankmajer FEATURING: Pavel Liska, Jan Tríska, Anna Geislerová...
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CAPSULE: DIAMONDS OF THE NIGHT (1964)
Démanty noci DIRECTED BY: Jan Nemec FEATURING: Ladislav Jánsky, Antonín Kumbera PLOT: Two Jewish boys escape from the Nazis and flee through the German countryside. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: A...
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THREE FANTASTIC JOURNEYS BY KAREL ZEMAN
Karel Zeman was a Czech animator, creator of some of the most lavishly stylized Jules Verne-inspired fantasy films ever made. His mature movies combined live actors with cutout animation and...
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10*: THE FABULOUS BARON MUNCHAUSEN (1962)
Baron Prásil 366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. DIRECTED BY: Karel Zeman FEATURING: Miloš Kopecký, Jana Brejchová, Rudolf Jelínek PLOT: An astronaut,...
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A game of hide-and-seek becomes an allegory for the passage of time when a boy finds the perfect hiding place.
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