The Case for Pavel Jurácek

3/20/04 to 3/28/04

  • A Case for the Young Hangman, March 27

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  • The Key to Determining Dwarfs, or The Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver

    Saturday, March 20 7:00pm
    A new film based on the journals of the talented writer-director Jurácek during the Czech New Wave. "A unique, affecting film essay."-Variety. With Josef Kilián: In which our hero rents a tomcat. In 1963, a reflection of an absurd world.
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  • Every Young Man

    Saturday, March 20 9:05pm
    Soldiers in this Czech army don't have to fight, and that's a good thing, given the comic-dream world Jurácek invents from mere reality. With short The Dynamite Keeper.
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  • The End of August in the Hotel Ozone

    Saturday, March 27 7:00pm
    The ultimate landscape after battle: post thermonuclear war, eight young women are led by an elder in search of males with whom to procreate; to be not the last ones, but the first ones.
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  • A Case for the Young Hangman

    Saturday, March 27 8:50pm
    Jurácek's masterpiece, a vivid, dreamlike satire freely inspired by Gulliver's Travels-updated for absurdity. "Full of spirit and sparkling wit without leaving a pure, rationalistic level of thought."-Int'l. Film Guide
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  • The Jester's Tale

    Sunday, March 28 3:40pm
    Karel Zeman's brilliant animation, cowritten with Jurácek: ironic, surreal, following the adventures of a plowboy and a mercenary to the battlefields of the Thirty Years War.
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  • Ikarie XB-1

    Sunday, March 28 5:30pm
    Landmark science fiction written by Jurácek and director Jindrich Polak. In the 22nd century, problems on earth have long since been solved by communism. Now there is the Dark Star to contend with.
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