Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Jaromil Jireš’s 1970 classic, has premiered in a newly restorated version at Venice. We spoke to Michal Bregant about the film.

A newly digitized version of Jaromil Jireš’ cult classic will compete in Venice Classics, highlighting Czech film restoration efforts.

My uncle and I had a visceral loathing for one another … In my childhood when he came to visit, he would chide my parents incessantly for spoiling me, accusing them of instilling in me nothin…

My uncle and I had a visceral loathing for one another … In my childhood when he came to visit, he would chide my parents incessantly for spoiling me, accusing them of instilling in me nothin…

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Some years after Walter Serner helped bring Dadaism to Zurich, he broke away from the movement. The Tigress, perhaps Serner’s most famous work, emerged in the period after Serner’s detachment from …

Digitally restored silent classic by Gustav Machatý has returned to Czech cinemas, offering modern audiences a rare look at one of the most provocative films of the interwar era.

I dug/was perplexed by Gerhard Rühm’s Cake and Prostheses a few years ago, so when I got my soft pink hands on The Folded Clock, (translated like C & P by Alexander Booth), I was intrigued. Pub…

time poem a note on recitationrecited in real time, the “time poem” would take an entire year: were you to begin on january 1st, you would recite only a single line a day until december 31st, then,…

two! one two  – one two  –  three! .        two one two three  –   four .       two “a recounting,” the first number poem you encounter in Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock, opens with a lengthy note…

An interview with translator Alexander Booth about his work on Gerhard Rühm, Alexander Kluge, et al., in the October 2025 issue of The Berliner.

[Ceilings] and its setting dwell in a place where play and terror occur simultaneously. . .

Prague surpasses its “practical necessity” and expands into a dynamic host for memories

A review, and links to other information about and reviews of cake & prostheses by Gerhard Rühm.

Drink them up, swallow those clouds, gulp them down with all your might, because all you’ve got to look forward to now are ceilings. As Ema, the fifty year-old protagonist of Zuzana Brabcová’s Ceil…