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Monica's Czech Restaurant, Inverness, Calif. On a hillside overlooking Tomales Bay. Owner Milan Prokupek was an official in Masaryk's government, fled the Communists in 1948. Excellent Czech food. Inexpensive...
...year is 1995, and the science of micronics has learned how to reduce objects and even people to the size of a bacterium-for 60 minutes. After a Czech scientist discovers how to prolong miniaturization, U.S. agents spirit him across the Atlantic. Alas, before he can explain the discovery, he is attacked by enemy operatives and left in a coma caused by a blood clot in midbrain. Since no conventional operation is possible, the high command approves a daring plan: a miniaturized submarine with a crew of shrunken specialists (led by Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch) is injected into...
...studios with commercial ones. Even if a Hollywood entry should be praised by festival press previewers, the distributors fear that the papers would give the film less attention later on, when it counts-in its general release. "Festivals are fine," sums up one studio executive, "for Polish, Russian and Czech companies. They have nothing to lose and a great deal to gain...
...talented directors and writers. "It's not a wave, it's a flood," proudly says Jan Kadar, whose The Shop on Main Street (co-directed by Elmar Klos) won this year's Oscar as the best foreign film. Within the past three weeks, two other Czech films have opened in Manhattan, and an astonishing 55 more have been acquired for U.S. distribution in the near future. Already festooned with garlands of laurels from European competitions, Milos Forman's The Loves of a Blonde has been chosen to open the annual New York Film Festival at Lincoln...
...Answer. At their best, the new Czech films combine a zest for cinematic experimentation with a thematic audacity and wry humor that is surprising in a Communist culture. A recurrent motif of the Prague cinemakers is the plight of the dogged individualist who bombards society with question marks, and usually receives "Oh" for an answer. Black Peter, Forman's first feature film, is a droll defense of an aimless Czech teenager, who drifts from senseless jobs to hopeless dance-hall encounters to empty lectures at home. In the devastating symbolism of Joseph Kilián, by 30-year...