J.B. Spins

Franstišek Vláčil outlived the Communist regime that had so bedeviled his filmmaking career, but he did not quite make it into the Twenty-Fi...

The mere fact that an accomplished but largely nonpolitical artist like filmmaker Franstišek Vláčil would require “rehabilitation” is fundam...

The story of a boy and his dog is a classic motif of children’s films. However, Franstišek Vláčil transformed the well established conventio...

Like many contemporary Iranian filmmakers, Franstišek Vláčil often focused on ostensibly apolitical subjects, like children and animals. Yet...