ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): Czech films

Showing posts with label Czech films. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Czech films. Show all posts

Friday, August 8, 2025

Watching

THE HOP-PICKERS
[STARCI NA CHMELU]
Ladislav Rychman
Czechoslovakia, 1964

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Watching

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
[PANNA A NETVOR] (Lit. The Virgin and the Monster)
Juraj Herz
Czechoslovakia, 1978

Thursday, April 25, 2024

Currently Watching
[101 Shorts Edition]

50. SOMNIPHOBIA
Dillon Vibbart
USA, 2021

49. WOODS
Sean van Leijenhorst
Netherlands/Czech Republic, 2016

48. CHILDREN
Takuya Okada
Japan, 2011

47. LESS THAN HUMAN
Steffen Bang Lindholm
Denmark, 2017

46. FISHWIFE
Beth Park
Wales, 2022

45. THE CHAIR
Curry Barker
USA, 2022

44. ENIGMA
Curry Barker
USA, 2023

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Currently Watching

THE PIED PIPER
[KRYSAR]
Jirí Barta
Czechoslovakia, 1986

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Currently Watching

REPULSE

[HRANA ZLOMU]
Emil Křižka
Czech Republic, 2021

Monday, January 1, 2024

Currently Watching

IKARIE XB-1
Jindřich Polák
Czechoslovakia, 1963

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Currently Watching

WOLF'S HOLE
[LČÍ BOUDA]
Věra Chytilová
Czechoslovakia, 1987

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

FAUST

[Lekce Faust]

____________________

Jan Švankmajer

Czech Republic, 1994

Sunday, March 27, 2022

WITCHHAMMER
[KLADIVO NA ČARODĚJNICE]
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Otakar Vávra
Czechoslovakia, 1970

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.