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	Pacific Cinematheque Presents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Brezhnev is his underwear.' But as a filmmaker, an actor, and a stage director, Menzel is a humorist and humanist whose self-deprecating wit underplays the influence of his delicate tragicomedies of the little man. As Yvette Biro has written, 'Menzel's philosophical comedies owe much to the modern Czech literary tradition.
		Menzel and frequent literary collaborator Bohumil Hrabal made Larks on a String in 1969 to welcome the Prague Spring with eccentric humor at the expense of the heavy fifties, only to find that, in the surreal world of Czechs and balances, the fifties had returned with a vengeance.
		Adapted from a collection of stories by Menzel favourite Bohumil Hrabal, the film is set in the 1950s in the town of Kladno, were a group of "bourgeois dissidents," including a philosophy professor, a librarian, a saxophonist, and a public prosecutor, have been forced to undergo "re-education" -- by working on a factory scrap heap.
	www.cinematheque.bc.ca /archives/jirimenzel.html (1606 words)

	CER \| Czech Film: Menzel and Hrabal's Oscar-winning work
		The story of Menzel's film Postřižiny (Cutting it Short, 1980) is based on one that Hrabal published in the seventies, and it goes back to the time of the writer's childhood (Hrabal was born in 1914) spent at the brewery in Nymburk, a small town close to Prague.
		Menzel also does not show the motifs of cruelty in his film: for example, Maryška cutting the tail of the dog because of the new age in which everything seems to be getting shorter, from travel times to skirt lengths.
		Menzel, however, blamed Sirotek for the fiasco, considering his behavior to be unethical, and for this reason he exacted his revenge in public.
	www.ce-review.org /01/9/kinoeye9_kosulicova.html (3910 words)

	Jiri Menzel emerges as the director of 'I served the King of England' - 22-02-2005 - Radio Prague
		Jiri Menzel emerges as the director of 'I served the King of England'
		Jiri Menzel, who won an Oscar for his dramatization of the Hrabal novel 'Closely Observed Trains', has finally been selected to direct the film.
		Oscar winning Jiri Menzel was a friend of the late Hrabal, and collaborated with him on several occasions, turning his books into films.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/63674 (793 words)

	CINEMAJOVE
		Menzel's films speak to us from the very heart of Europe, and they continue to do so with an immense heart.
		Menzel, for serving the cinema so well; and may you continue to make all our hearts beat faster in the future.
		The Czech New Wave, of which you were such an essential part, washes onto the screens of Valencia as fresh and as invigorating as as it did 40 years ago.
	www.gva.es /cinemajove/actualiza/ijiri.htm (260 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Jiri Menzel: Closely Observed Trains
		Few European films are so affectionately remembered as Closely Observed Trains, one of the pinnacles of the Czech New Wave of the 60s, brutally cut short by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August, 1968, which caused Milos Forman, one of its chief exponents, to flee to America.
		Jiri Menzel, its director, stayed and was unable to make films for some time.
		Menzel's often elliptical work was later blunted by the self-consciousness his fame brought him; he could never have gone to Hollywood to produce something as bold as Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest or Amadeus.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Century_Of_Films/Story/0,4135,89442,00.html (523 words)

	Jiri Menzel (From 'Modern Film Scripts: Closely Observed Trains') - (By Jan Zalman - 1971) - Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is not altogether an accurate label, for it glosses over two of his most characteristic features: not only does Menzel smile, he as often as not laughs outright; and his humanity would remain an anaemic concept if we were to ignore the sexuality that forms its integral part.
		To speak of 'a confrontation of obscenity and tragedy', as does Menzel himself, is to invite misunderstanding.
		It is a matter of conjecture whether this is a lapse on the part of the director or whether Menzel, still under thirty, is challenging the accepted stereotypes of the official 'resistance' legend.
	maxpages.com /czechcinema/Menzel_and_Sexuality - !http://maxpages.com/czechcinema/Menzel_and_Sexuality (495 words)

	Jiri Menzel Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Menzel's vision combined a devotion to the poetry of the commonplace with his own special brand of slapstick.
		Menzel himself plays the interloping tightrope walker, Arnostek, in an astonishing performance full of enthusiastic amateurism and the split-second timing and balance of circus professionals.
		Menzel's 1969 masterpiece "Larks on a String", an outspoken satire on the Communist "reeducation" of the bourgeoisie, was banned upon completion but released to critical acclaim in the West in 1990.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/196407 (509 words)

	Ten Minutes Older : The Cello : Jirí Menzel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Jiri Menzel is making a comic film which contrasts everyday events in the life of a famous old movie star with scenes from the many films he appeared in.
		It is a study of the physical aging of a person and a history of cinema, the story of an individual which is told through his repeated loss of his own identity as he takes on a whole range of cinema characters.
		The interweaving of mundane, present-day life with poignant clips from the old movies exploits to the full the quirky, gently intoxicating humour of Menzel which he has showed so brilliantly in all of his films.
	www.tenminutesolder.co.uk /cello/jir/jir.html (161 words)

	Geburtstag des Regisseurs Jiri Menzel - 24-02-2003 - Radio Prag (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Jiri Menzel wandte sich in dieser Zeit wieder seiner alten Liebe, dem Theater, zu.
		Erst 20 Jahre später, 1990, bekam Menzel dafür den Goldenen Bären in Berlin.
		Jirí Menzel verfilmt Hrabals "Ich habe den englischen König bedient"
	www.radio.cz.cob-web.org:8888 /de/artikel/37909 (558 words)

	Jiri Menzel's "Closely Watched Trains" - (By Michael Jon Stoil - 1974) - Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Jiri Menzel is one of the youngest of the well-known Czech directors.
		Menzel was 27 years old when he completed "Closely Watched Trains"; he was only 29 when it became the first Czech film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1968.
		What Menzel has accomplished in this and similar scenes throughout the film is to comment on contemporary Czech society by disguising the contemporary aspects.
	maxpages.com /czechcinema/5_Closely_Watched_Trains - !http://maxpages.com/czechcinema/5_Closely_Watched_Trains (626 words)

	Larks on a String
		1.) In his article, "Jiri Menzel and the Second Prague Spring", George Bluestone considers Menzel’s films to be "more interested in Chekhovian epiphanies than in broad political gestures" (Bluestone, 26).
		Jiri Menzel was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1938.
		Menzel is known as one of the inspiring directors of the "New Wave" which dominated the Czechoslovak Film Miracle in the 1960's–considered to be responsible for an entirely new film language at a time characterized by an upsurge in Czechoslovak films that sought the truth about man and society.
	www.grinnell.edu /russian/larks.html (363 words)

	Amazon.com: Closely Watched Trains - Criterion Collection: DVD: Jiri Menzel,Josef Somr,Vladimir Valenta,Vaclav ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Jiri Menzel's funny, tragic 1966 film, set during the years of Germany's occupation of Czechoslovakia, may be admired today more out of nostalgia than anything, but in fact it holds up very well as a wry satire from the years of the Czech New Wave.
		Director Jiri Menzel made this film during the middle 60's--when the Czech artists found themselves immersed in the joy of Prague Spring.
		Menzel's choice of keeping WWII at a distance--to concentrate on the human foilables never quite reached M.A.S.H. status.
	www.amazon.com /Closely-Watched-Trains-Criterion-Collection/dp/B00005NFZB (2406 words)

	Closely Observed Trains - DVDs & VHS - MovieMail UK
		A touching, flly comic tale of a young stationmaster's adventures, the film miraculously avoids both sentimentality and overt political point-scoring to create a genuinely moving and beautifully observed portrait of small-town life.
		Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, he embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure.
		Menzel’s delightful film won numerous awards including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1968.
	www.moviemail-online.co.uk /films/5742 (516 words)

	European film news ¦ Czech director Jirí Menzel will serve the king of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Menzel often worked together with Hrabal on the screenplay, but the director will
		Menzel, when visiting Hungary recently in his capacity as a patron of the
		Menzel will adapt another novel from writer Bohumil Hrabal
	www.europeanfilms.net /news/0506/0202.html (260 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - Closely Watched Trains (1966), Jiri Menzel, Vaclav Neckar, Josef Somr, dvd review
		Fortunately, the works of Jiri Menzel have persevered.
		Menzel's works contain a more visible style than Forman's -- a semi-sweet lightness with a penchant for silence and sustained humor.
		Critic-turned-screenwriter Paul Attanasio once said of a Menzel film "it might have been directed by a teddy bear." But that's without forsaking the political undercurrent that runs through all the New Wave works.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /classic/closelywatch.shtml (436 words)

	Bohumil Hrabal
		Another of Hrabal's gems, "Cutting it Short" (Postriziny, 1976), also adapted to the screen by Menzel, features Hrabal's mother giving an unforgettable account of life at the brewery in Nymburk and how uncle Pepin came to visit for fourteen days and stayed for fourteen years.
		After 1968, Hrabal was banned from publishing; only after 1975, when the weekly Tvorba carried his perplexing proclamation of government support, did he regain the right to put out books.
		Edith Pargeter) Northwestern Univ. Press, 1995; "Closely Observed Trains, a Film" (script written by Hrabal together with Jiri Menzel), Lorrimer, 1971; "Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age" (transl.
	art-bin.com /art/ahrabaleng.html (1757 words)

	Amazon.com: Jiri Menzel and the History of The Closely Watched Train: Books: Josef Skvorecky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Amazon.com: Jiri Menzel and the History of The Closely Watched Train: Books: Josef Skvorecky
		Jiri Menzel and the History of The Closely Watched Train (Hardcover)
		A work on contemporary Czechoslovak cinematography focusing on the celebrated director Jíri Menzel's classic film Closely Watched Train in the context of communist Czechoslovak mores and restrictions.
	www.amazon.com /Menzel-History-Closely-Watched-Train/dp/0880330112 (468 words)

	Movie Info for Closely Watched Trains on MSN Movies
		Czech director Jiri Menzel's Closely Watched Trains (Ostre sledovane vlaky) was the recipient of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1967.
		In the story, based on Bohumil Hrabal's novel of the same name, Vaclav Neckar plays a Czech railroad worker during the Nazi occupation.
		Ordered by the Czech Communist government to return his Oscar, Menzel refused, opting instead to make a "repentance" film which sang the praises of collectivism.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=100724 (150 words)

	Capricious Summer
		A radical change from other films of the Czech New Wave, this 1967 comedy focused on middle age as it approaches the film's characters.
		Set during the turn of the century, CAPRICIOUS SUMMER camps out with a group of vacationers who feel they are rapidly aging.
		Things get worse--and slightly chaotic-- when a magician/tight rope walker (played by director Jiri Menzel) joins the group, wearing his pink tights and toting along his young blonde assistant.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/capricious_summer (335 words)

	Closely Observed Trains
		Jirí Menzel's debut film was based on a freshly published novel by his countryman Bohumil Hrabal, who also collaborated on the script adaptation.
		The film came at a heady time when the Czech New Wave was attracting much attention, not least at international festivals.
		Beyond Menzel, the name to survive is Milos Forman, whose The Fireman's Ball (1968) was very much of a piece with the film under discussion, and who then of course went on to great success in Hollywood with One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Amadeus (1984).
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/02/23/closely_observed.html (884 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - Capricious Summer (1967), Jiri Menzel, Rudolf Hrusinsky, Vlastimil Brodsky, dvd ...
		In it, three middle-aged friends love nothing more than to drink and discuss Deep Thoughts while dangling their toes in a run-down swimming hole.
		When a cut-rate circus performer (Menzel himself) shows up with a beautiful blonde assistant, the friends' world gets turned upside down.
		The color photography only accentuates the dreariness of this overcast summer, and the end result is not quite as engaging as Closely Watched Trains, but it certainly proves that Menzel was not a one-hit wonder.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /classic/caprsumm.shtml (276 words)

	train film: Jiri Menzel and the History of The Closely Watched Train (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Jiri Menzel and the History of The Closely Watched Train
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	bookstore.mytraincenter.com.cob-web.org:8888 /n_0880330112.htm (314 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Jirí Menzel - 1966 - Closely Watched Trains (Ostre sledované vlaky) Movies Review
		Winning the 1968 Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Closely Watched Trains (Ostre sledované vlaky) holds up over the years as a fine example of comedy from the Czech New Wave, where political messages are subtly hidden under everyday situations and dry humor.
		Jirí Menzel's coming of age comedy is unlike most American comedies, derived from ridiculous contrived relationships and situations.
		Based on centuries of tradition, Czech humor gradually unfolds in off-hand manner.
	www.culturedose.net /review.php?rid=10003419 (724 words)

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