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On November 28, 1931 construction work started on the Barrandov Film Studios which were to become one of the biggest and most modern studio facilities in Europe. 

The artist’s newly released recordings often sound like those your big sister made, sitting cross-legged on her canopy bed, before she ran off to Haight-Ashbury.

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory and entirely-forgotten Disney comedy The Million Dollar Duck. But other new arrivals suggested Hollywood’s confusion over just what audiences wanted at a point when strict old censorship rules had only recently collapsed (the G-to-X MPAA ratings system was just a couple years old), and the major studios were in a panic. Was Easy Rider the new model for commercial success? Or Airport? Hewing to something like the conservative latter model were a flop comb...

The National Film Archive announced this week that it has acquired the estate of Ivan Passer, one of the leading lights of cinema’s Czechoslovak New Wave. The archive received boxes stuffed with Passer’s diaries, letters and photographs, alongside annotated film screenplays – and recipes for Czech delicacies such as svíčková. Ivan Passer lived the latter half of his life in the United States, where he died last January at the age of 86. In his homeland, he is best known for the enchant...

News, calls for ban on biometric mass surveillance in EU, film archive acquires legacy from Czech film great Ivan Passer, and the art of cultural diplomacy

The National Film Archive has acquired the estate of late Czech-American director Ivan Passer, including his personal diaries, photographs, correspondence, and screenplays, the archive’s spokeswoman Veronika Bokšteflová told the Czech News Agency on Thursday. Ivan Passer, who died last year at the age of 86, was a leading filmmaker of the Czech New Wave and a close friend of the late Miloš Forman with whom he fled Czechoslovakia in 1968 and forged a celebrated career in Hollywood. The tran...

A tribute to one of the best cinematographers of all time.

Horror movies were a primarily US form for many years, as the genre was variably considered too juvenile, preposterous, violent, grotesque and/or tasteless in some nations. Government censors blocked their release where such material was considered inappropriate for public consumption; in certain other locations, the public simply wasn’t interested, whether the films in question were imported or homegrown.  Today, however, such cultural differences are largely gone. For myriad reasons, parti...

Movies like Bobby, Paan Singh Tomar, Kedarnath & Charulata to be featured.

FILE - In this June 29, 1986, file photo, Diego Maradona holds up his teams trophy after Argentinas 3-2 victory over West Germany at the World Cup final soccer match at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. The Argentine soccer great who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title died from a heart attack on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020, at his home in Buenos Aires. He was 60. (AP Photo/Carlo Fumagalli, File) Carlo Fumagalli Victoria Will associated press file photo...