Czech New Wave Screening

This program surveys the daring spirit of the Czechoslovak New Wave, a movement that flourished briefly in the 1960s before being crushed by political repression. From Forman's sly social satire The Firemen's Ball to Němec's surreal resistance in Diamonds of the Night, from Chytilová's anarchic Daisies to Menzel's bittersweet Larks on a String, these films share a defiant wit and formal inventiveness.