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March 27

Mother Joan of the Angels – Jerzy Kawalerowicz and repression in “Devil Possession” films. (film review)

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I wanted to make a film about human nature and its innate reaction against repression and laws which are imposed on it. Jerzy kawalerowicz In the history of films about demonic possession, probably the three most important are The Exorcist, The Devils and Mother Joan of the Angels.  Interestingly, both The Devils and Mother Joan […]

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The Valley of the Bees – František Vláčil tells a tale of obsessive horror.

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In a survey of Czech film critics held in 1998  František Vláčil‘s film Marketa Lazarova (I’ll be watching this in the next 8 days)  as teh best Czech film ever made and its director recieved a lifetime achievement awarded at the Karlovy Vary film festival in the same year. Údolí včel (The Valley of the Bees) was […]

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