Word: nemec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This quiz was compiled by Michelle Healy, Bruce Schoenfeld and David Wilson. Answers will appear next week in The Crimson. The winner will receive a copy of the Ultimate Baseball Book with text by David Nemec, considered to be one of the greatest baseball historians ever. Entries must be received by Wednesday at The Sports Cube, The Harvard Crimson, 14 Plympton...
...there not a feeling of the end of an era in Prague already in the spring of 1968, when Czech directors were suddenly, after 20 years, confronted with their newly gained freedom? As Jan Nemec says...
...human action a portrait of the social reality as a whole" This accounts for the political dimension of a film with an apparently nonpolitical subject, such as Firemen's Ball, 1968. Others, like Jaromil Jires (The Joke, 1968) preferred social analysis and political generalizations, while Chytilova's Dazies or Nemec's Report on the Party and the Guests are philosophical tales in the Voltairian sense of the word...
...future of Czech film directors in America is a different story from the future of Czech cinema. Some of the best have left the country (the last to leave was Jan Nemec who arrived in Paris last summer, after six years of not being allowed to shoot). Those who stayed are on the blacklist, and to be blacklisted in Prague--as well as in Hollywood in the fifties--means to lose the possibility to do creative work for many years. Ivan Passer once related how eager he was to start shooting his first American movie, Born...
...make in everyday life. But Report is better than allegory; unlike all those Profound Question-obsessed Bergman films you can't just plug in a simple meaning for each of the characters and explain the film away. The reason for this lies in the sinister, stark quality of Nemec's style, his refusal to locate any action with an establishing shot or relax the rigorous, inexorable pacing of his cutting-the most mundane activities thereby acquiring frightening overtones. And overlaid is a soundtrack which places each image at one inexplicable remove. Beginning with a parody of Hollywood climax music which...