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Because, says Czechoslovakia's coach Karel Gut, his team can win the gold medal. The Czechs lost the Izvestia Cup tournament to the Soviets last December by only one goal, and the Russians had home-ice advantage. Gut is confident that Goal Tender Jiri Holocek and Wing Vladimir Martinek are the equals of the better-publicized Soviets. The Finns are a solid bet for a bronze, but the young American team could surprise. In fact, U.S. Coach Bob Johnson is planning on it. He has a future pro goalie in Jim Warden, and his squad has beaten teams from...
Although having different philosophical and esthetic approaches to filmmaking, they all shared a common attitude toward actors (Forman and Passer introduced the use of non-professional actors) that is best defined by the director Jiri Weiss: "To me an actor is what five divisions of the Soviet army are for Sergel Bondartchuk (Soviet director, author of the gigantic film version of War and Peace). And a conversation between a man and his wife is more interesting to me than the battle of Borodino. The miracle of cinematography is the reconstruction (or, if you will, the construction) of human life. Film...
SOUTH HOUSE FESTIVAL OF CZECHOSLOVAK FILMS: HILLES CINEMA, The Shop on Main Street, (Jan Kadar), The Cowards (Jiri Weiss) Nov. 30, at 7:30, $2, Fireman's Ball (Milos Forman) Intimate Lighting (Ivan Passer), Dec. 1, at 7:30, $2, films introduced by A. J. Liehm. Czech film critic, and discussed by the directors, The Joke (Jaromil Jires), Daisies (Vera Chytilova), Dec. 2, at 7:30, $2, series ticket...
Forman will appear at the festival, as will Jiri Weiss (who began as a documentary film-maker), Kadar, and Ivan Passer...
Jesuit achievements were as often secular as spiritual. French Jesuit Jacques Marquette paddled down the Mississippi in the first European expedition to explore that river. Brother Jiri Kamel, a Moravian botanist at the Jesuits' College of Manila in the 17th century, gave Europe the camellia. A German mathematician and astronomer of the Society of Jesus, Christoph Klau, contributed to the Gregorian calendar and gave his Latinized name, Clavius, to a lunar crater that he discovered...