Michal Bregant: Restored classics can provide context for new Czech films
Michal Bregant heads the National Film Archive, which administers Czechia's rich cinema heritage and is currently celebrating 80 years of existence.
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Michal Bregant heads the National Film Archive, which administers Czechia's rich cinema heritage and is currently celebrating 80 years of existence.
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 enchanting film Intimate Lighting, and internationally for the cult classic Cutter’s Way. He also collabo...