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ALICE (SVANKMAJER)
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Jan Svankmajer, the Czech master of animation, has fulfilled a lifetime          ambition in this interpretation of Alice in Wonderland. Svankmajer's       Alice remains true to Carroll's original, but bears the stamp of his ow  n distinctive style and obsessions in this combination of animation and live     action filmmaking. "Brilliantly inventive...a piercing, original vision"       (Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker).                                     Jan Svankmajer---Czechoslovakia---1988---85 mins.
COLL SHORTS JAN SVANKMAJER
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A collection of shorts by the influential Czech animator, Jan Svankmajer.        Using a combination of puppets, actors and stop-motion animation, his dark,      surreal films have been an influence on filmmakers from the Brothers Quay to     Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam. Includes The Fall of the House of Usher    (1980, 15 mins.), A Game with Stones (1965, 8 mins.), Et Cetera    (1966, 8 mins.), Punch and Judy (1966, 10 mins.), The Flat (1968,  13 mins.), Picnic with Weissmann (1969, 13 mins.), A Quiet Week   in    the House (1969, 19 mins.), Dimensions of Dialogue (1982, 12 mins.),  Down to the Cellar (1982, 15 mins.), The Pendulum, the Pit and        Hope (1983, 15 mins.), Meat Love (1989, 1 min.), Flora (1989,   20 secs.), The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1990, 10 mins.  ), and       Jan Svankmajer---Czech Republic---1965-1992---183 mins.
CONSPIRATORS OF PLEASURE
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Although largely a live-action film, Jan Svankmajer's strange, otherworldly      depiction of the bizarre, solitary sexual activities of six people is very       much in the spirit of his surreal, stop-motion animated films Alice and    Faust. Forgoing any explanation by dialogue, Svankmajer allows his       distinctive visual artistry to convey the odd, sometimes nightmarish fantasy   world his characters occupy. "To describe Conspirators of Pleasure as a  live-action cartoon is a little like calling James Joyce's Ulysses a       salty Irish yarn" (Stephen Holden, New York Times). Also included is a   Svankmajer live-action/animation short, Food (1992, 16 mins.), a         Jan Svankmajer---Czech Republic/Switzerland/Great Britain---1996---85 mins.
FAUST ( SVANKMAJER )
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Jan Svankmajer's long-awaited follow-up to his acclaimed Alice is an       equally bizarre version of the myth of Dr. Faustus. Combining live action with   stop-motion animation, Svankmajer has created an unsettling universe presided    over by diabolic life-size marionettes and haunted by skulking human           messengers from hell.                                                          Jan Svankmajer---Czechoslovakia---1994---97 mins.
JAN SVANKMAJER: OSSUARY &
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Essentially the third volume of collected shorts by Czech animator Jan           Svankmajer, this masterful anthology contains dark, surreal works that display   the filmmaker's unique combination of puppets, actors, and stop-motion           animation. Macabre, witty, and perverse, the collection includes the following short films: The Last Trick (1964, 12 mins.), Don Juan (1970, 31   mins.), The Garden (1968, 19 mins.), Historia Naturae (1967, 9     mins.), Johann Sebastian Bach (1965, 10 mins.), The Ossuary (  1970, 10 mins.), The Otrants Castle (1973-1979, 17 mins.), Darkness Light   Darkness (1989, 8 mins.), and Manly Games (1988, 12 mins.). In Czech  Jan Svankmajer---Czechoslovakia---1964-1988---118 mins.
LITTLE OTIK
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Surrealist film master Jan Svankmajer (Faust, Alice) combines his          distinctive approaches to live-action and animation with this creepy but very    funny movie based on an old Czech legend. A childless woman's maternal           longings transform a crudely carved wooden doll into a living creature with an appetite that soon makes real trouble for some of the neighbors. "Rivals       The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby and Eraserhead as a disturbing       treatise on the fear of parenthood" (Andrew Johnston, The New York            Jan Svankmajer---Czech Republic/Great Britain---2000---126 mins.
LUNACY
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Another stroke of otherworldly genius from the master of Czech animation, Jan    Svankmajer, Lunacy combines live-action filmmaking and stop-motion         animation with kinky sex, Euro-trash violence, black comedy, and frisky meat     puppets. Set in nineteenth century rural France, a young man becomes submersed in the nightmarish world of a mysterious, debauched Marquis, played by Jan     Triska (The People vs. Larry Flynt). The provocative film is loosely     based on two short stories by Edgar Allen Poe and inspired by the works of th  e Marquis de Sade. "Dark, scary, and yucky...The last true surrealist" (J.       Hoberman, Village Voice). In Czech with English subtitles.               Jan Svankmajer---Czech Republic/Slovakia---2006---118 mins.