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Watch This: The Shop on Main Street

“The Shop on Main Street” (Obchod na korze) is a Czech masterpiece from 1965. The story follows Anton Brtko, a simple Slovak carpenter known as “Tóno.” When the town undergoes Aryanization, Tóno’s brother-in-law assigns him to take over the sewing shop of an elderly and nearly deaf woman named Rozália Lautmannová, also known as Lautman....

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

May 14, 2015

Watch This: Želary

Zelary is a Czech film that begins in Prague during World War II where we are introduced to two doctors and Eliska. Eliska is a nurse who works alongside a respected surgeon named Richard who is also her lover. Eliska is a courier and has to learn different stories each time she takes messages or documents...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

May 13, 2015

Watch This: Moon Over Miami

Moon Over Miami is a delightful and filled with dancing, songs, action, beach scenes, and sweet-hearted romance this film will lift your spirits and make you laugh. Two smart girls looking like a million and looking for a million. In this vibrant film bursting with vivid technicolor, we witness the whimsical escapades of two sisters...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

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May 5, 2015

Watch This: Yes Giorgio

“Yes Giorgio!” takes us back to a time not too long ago when movies came in different flavors. There were the ones you couldn’t resist watching repeatedly, and then there were those that lingered in your mind long after the credits rolled. If you’re a Pavarotti enthusiast like us, then ‘Yes Giorgio!’ is an absolute...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

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April 6, 2015

Watch This: Stranger Than Fiction

I was interested in the film Stranger Than Fiction when I first saw the preview. Will Ferrell plays Harold Crick, the main drab character wakes up hearing a voice narrating his life. No one hears it, except Harold and he thinks he is going mad. The strangest part is that the narrator is spot on...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

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April 2, 2015

Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing

I read Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing August 1, 2001 on the day it was published, and on my birthday. It has become woven into the inner being of who I am. The human world is not simple. The world we made is a tangled disaster of rules and bureaucracies that make...

Books, ENTERTAINMENT

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March 23, 2015

Accidental Army – True Story of The Czechoslovak Legion

The Czechoslovak Legion, known as Československé legie in Czech and Československé légie in Slovak, stands as a testament to the resilience and determination of the Czech and Slovak peoples during World War I. Comprised predominantly of volunteers, these armed forces joined ranks with the Entente powers with a singular goal in mind: to secure the...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

March 19, 2015

Watch This: The Thomas Crown Affair

The Thomas Crown Affair was one of the great movies of the summer season in 1999. Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo star in the remake of the classic 1968 Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway movie. And if you loved the original you will love the remake even more. The best part is that it looks like it could...

CULTURE, Movies

March 16, 2015

Watch This: 12 Angry Men

What happens when you put 12 angry men into a closed room and put them in charge of deciding the outcome of another man’s life? Eventually… you get 12 angry men. But first it’s important to understand who these 12 men are: DESCRIPTIONS OF JURORS FOREMAN A small, petty man who is impressed with the...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

March 12, 2015

Magic Prague

In the serendipitous pursuit of literary treasures, there are moments when the most remarkable discoveries unfold before us by sheer happenstance. Such was the captivating journey that began for me with a passing mention nestled within the pages of Nicholas Murray’s Kafka biography—a fleeting reference to a “wonderfully erudite” book by Angelo Maria Ripellino titled...

Books, ENTERTAINMENT

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March 5, 2015

Watch This: Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont is an elegant, moving story of a lovely woman of age on a journey to find something meaningful again in her life and literally “trips” into the life of a young man on his own journey to find himself as a writer. It is a deeply moving, powerful, yet subtle film that...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

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February 25, 2015

Watch This: My Afternoons With Margueritte

My Afternoons With Margueritte is purely delightful! Once upon a time in a little French town a sweet and delicate little old lady in her 90’s named Marguerite is reading aloud from her novel. The town simpleton, Germain is an illiterate handyman in his 50’s who is taking a walk to the park and he...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

February 19, 2015

Watch This: Czech Dream (Ceský sen)

Czech Dream asks some powerful questions. Can capitalism have a human face? Sure it can. Student filmmakers Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda had an idea. They invented the “Czech Dream”, a marketing campaign about the grand opening of a super mega (or hyper) market. They position themselves as businessmen and locate a public relations and...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

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February 12, 2015

Watch This: The French Lieutenant’s Woman

A beguiling and intellectually nimble feat of filmmaking, The French Lieutenant’s Woman film is based on a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by author John Fowles. It’s important to note that the authors concern was to do with the effects of society on an individual’s awareness of him or herself and more so, how having...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

February 5, 2015

Watch This: I Am Sam

I am Sam is a beautiful film which really demonstrates whey Sean Penn is a star. Sam is an autistic and mentally retarded man who has the intelligence level of a 7 year old. He grew up in an institution after his mother died. He now lives as much of a regular life as he can,...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

February 2, 2015

Watch This: Ché Part I

Ché Part I (The Criterion Collection) delivers pure revolutionary magic. Steven Soderbergh has directed a masterpiece that captures you in the first minute watching an extreme closeup of Benicio Del Toro in classic and iconic Che pose. This is an exquisite piece of filmmaking which is experiential and unique and tells the story in almost a...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

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