The Prague Reporter calls it<\/a> \u201ca quietly devastating warts-and-all look at a life slowly decimated by alcoholism,\u201d while praising the film\u2019s intimate approach. The documentary is playing this week with English subtitles at Bio Oko (Sept. 1) and Kino Atlas (Aug. 31 and Sept. 3).<\/p>\n\ud83c\udf9e\ufe0f The Throwback <\/p>\n
Tom\u00e1\u0161 Vorel\u2019s 1990 cult classic Smoke (Kou\u0159) turns a drab Ostrava factory workplace into a surreal musical satire of late communist Czechoslovakia. The film follows an idealistic young engineer whose determination to actually do his job sets off a rebellion among colleagues more accustomed to bureaucracy, corruption, and laziness.<\/p>\n
\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 This Week’s English-Friendly Screenings <\/p>\n
\ud83c\udf7f New wide releases <\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcfa The Streaming Watchlist <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddff Czech Cinema Spotlight A Pint of Ink offers a deeply personal portrait of Petr Geisler, a Czech…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-585022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}