Recommendations for Second Run

[Langland]

Oh, I see there is. So null points for me but I'll just say I got mine in the little cinema shop in the arcade in Prague where the Kino Lucerna is. They have lots of interesting stuff and of course stock the Second Run Czech films. Also great in Prague is the Karel Zeman museum just beside the Charles Bridge. They also stock the relevant Second Run releases.

[Langland]

Aha! I have got a reasonable suggestion. Among so many outstanding films on dvd from SR, Raya Martin's 'independencia' had a big impact on me. Another great film I saw from him, with a hypnotic mix of the everyday and dreamlike sequences, is available from France on dvd with French subtitling. It is called 'Now Showing'. Either that or a BD of 'Independencia' would not be unworthy of SR.

[Langland]

I am assuming that MichaelB is Michael Brooke and as he has been the source for me of many a tip and author of impeccable guides and introductions to films in booklets I hoped it wouldn't be too presumptuous to ask for some advice. Having got hold of Telewizja Kinopolska's Horrory collection a couple of other Polish directors unknown to me are in their promotional pullout and obtainable: Filip Bajon and Radosław Piwowarski. Krystyna Janda is in one of the latter's films (star of SR's Interrogation and much else besides). Any comments/advice? I seem to remember a Top Ten of Polish cinema on your BFI page but don't recall these directors.

[Langland]

I don't suppose SR would consider THE END OF AUGUST AT THE HOTEL OZONE written by Pável Juráček who wrote the two classics on SR, DAISIES and A CASE FOR A ROOKIE HANGMAN. I would very much like to see this film which I believe does have a US dvd release but it doesn't appeal in that format. There is also a documentary written by him about the Prague Spring and directed by Martin Šulik (wonderful TENDERNESS on SR) reflecting on his own difficult life - who knows?