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Speaking at a program of films and discussion at Cabot Hall, Karel Kovanda, a Ph.D. candidate in political science at MIT, called the current Czech government "the harshest, the most stalinist in all of Eastern Europe." Kovanda was chairman of the Union of Czechoslovakian Students at the time of the Russian intervention in August...
Czechoslovakia. South House has two underground Czech films: One is about the first seven black days of the Soviet invasion in 1968, the other about the funeral of hero Jan Palach. An important discussion with Karel Kovanda, former chairman of the Czechoslovak Student Union, is planned following these significant shorts...
...Canada spins off that theory, by way of France and Czechoslovakia. French researchers discovered 70 years ago that if they put a dead cat inside a small plywood pyramid, the body did not decay but merely dehydrated or was "mummified." Inspired by that work, Czechoslovak Radio Engineer Karel Drbal fashioned his own small pyramid and stored his razor blades in it. In 1959 Drbal took out a patent on the Cheops Pyramid Razor Blade Sharpener...
...emotion that others see and recognize, then you are flying." She will have a chance to "fly" again. Following the Revson contract, she immediately got two movie offers. She has already accepted-and begun shooting-one of them: Paramount's The Gambler, in which she is directed by Karel Reisz. James Caan costars...
...spurred by the emergence of the New Left in the English arts, Anderson and other young men like Directors Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz formed a loose association called "Free Cinema." Their self-assigned mission was to break away from the brittle, upper-middle-class-oriented British film tradition and make gritty, naturalistic movies about the life of the English majority-the working class. Anderson succeeded superbly with his 1963 adaptation of David Storey's novel about semipro rugby players, This Sporting Life. He then turned to "strong humanist statements," notably If . . . Set in Anderson's old school...