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...Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare with puppets: an intricate trick executed with taste and charm by Jiri Trnka, a Czech with an imagination quite as wild as Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 5, 1962 | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

Truly, in Trnka the play and its poet have found a richly susceptible servitor whose "eye, in a fine frenzy rolling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well Met by Moonlight | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...used to the idea it can be fun. Indeed, when the trick is brought off as brilliantly as it is here, even the Shakespurists may indulge in a delighted suspension of disbelief. Dream was produced in Czechoslovakia by a 49-year-old gimcrack genius named Jiri Trnka (pronounced Trnka). the Walt Disney of the Communist bloc; it is incomparably the best puppet picture ever made, a shimmering translation of poetic fancy into technological fantasy, a planned delirium of light and color for the educated eye, and for literary innocents of whatever age the perfect introduction to Shakespeare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well Met by Moonlight | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...first few minutes, the spectator is inevitably aware of Trnka's technology. The puppets, flesh of pliable plastic poured on strong steel frames, are marvelously alive but not necessarily human. They are, in fact, inspired refractions of the poet's entities, born of a fancy quite as wild as Will's. "Sweet Puck," for instance, Shakespeare's "knavish sprite," is imagined as a sort of naughty Ariel, a boy with the soul of a faun. "Jealous Oberon" is a grand abstraction of stag, noble and serious but indifferent, a thing of dells and vanishings. a silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well Met by Moonlight | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

Although there have been other artistic motion pictures, Trnka's work does very well without the lavish surrealism of predecessors like "The Red Shoes" and "Tales of Hoffman." And its delicacy and restraint can not help but charm an audience...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

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