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...computers are concerned," complained the Czech magazine Kulturní Tvorba, "we are still living in primeval times. We are 50 times worse than the U.S., 15 times worse than West Germany and Scandinavia, ten times worse than Britain, France, Holland and other countries...
...Czech Premier Josef Lenart showed up, along with almost all of his Cabinet...
...past five years has seen a renaissance of the cinema in Eastern Europe, with most of the activity located in Czechoslovakia. The wide range of content and style in the modern Czech cinema indicates the importance of that renaissance. At one end of the spectrum we find Milos Forman, director of Peter and Paula and A Blond in Love, whose gentle touch conveys exquisitely subtle shifts of mood. At the other end stands the team of Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, who have created in The Shop on Main Street a film of enormous impact and meaning...
...conscience in a typical Southern town? Perhaps The Shop on Main Street could only come from Eastern Europe which presently exists in that great grey area between freedom and suppression. But, for my part, I think the answer lies in the sensitivity and the richness of experience of the Czech people themselves, as evidenced in this film. When better films are made, the Czechoslovakians will probably make them...
...with the famous aria Ombra mai fu, generally called Handel's Largo, a song of praise to a plane tree. The deep, dark, mellifluous voice of Alto Maureen Forrester as the Persian king is set off by the light, bright vocal acrobatics of Lucia Popp, a rising young Czech soprano. Brian Priestman is the conductor, using the Vienna Radio Orchestra and Chorus and an excellent harpsichord accompanist...