Surrealism Beyond Borders review – A raging sea of glorious strangeness
Forget Dalí and Magritte. This sprawling survey captures the extraordinary scope of a global artistic explosion, from fantastical feminists to black power activists to Vodou painter priests
June 2012
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
Surviving Life | The Muppets | Roll Out The Barrel: The British Pub On Film | Mystery Science 3000: The Movie | The Sting
December 2011
Media Monkey
Is Noel Edmonds more sinister than some mutant parnsips?
Jan Švankmajer: Puppets and politics
Surviving Life – review
Surviving Life – review
July 2007
Jan Švankmajer - The Complete Short Films
Retail: The BFI has put together a sumptuous collection of the Czech surrealist’s endlessly experimental shorts.
June 2007
Dream works
People eating their own underclothes, diabolical bicycle chains and wagging tongues - the films of Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer are not just prankish delights, but scathing allegories of the abuse of power, argues Marina Warner.
Lunacy
Philip French: There are brilliant moments here and recurrent images of animals’ tongues and slices of meat running amok, writhing, copulating and being turned into mincemeat.
Lunacy (Šílení)
Andrew Pulver: The indefatigable Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer returns with another weird little tale.
May 2007
Preview
Asian Grindhouse, Glasgow, London | Jan Švankmajer, London
January 2006
Švankmajer's lunatic fringe
Surviving Jan Švankmajer’s latest surrealist nightmare, Matthew Tempest reports from the front line - military as well as cinematic - of the 2006 Rotterdam international film festival.
May 2005
Adaptation of the week
Curiouser and curiouser...
Andrew Pulver examines Jan Švankmajer’s Alice.
September 2002
All creatures great and small
From French-speaking dogs to dungaree-wearing moles, the animators of the former Czechoslovakia found ingenious ways to attack the communist system. Peter Hames reports.
October 2001
Little Otik
Out of my head
February 2001
OK, kids - shoot!
Murderous schoolchildren, babies for sale and a log that eats people - it’s all part of the fun at Rotterdam film festival, says Jonathan Romney
December 1999
Prague spring: Russian tanks in the streets and a new wave in the cinema
Peter Hames on the rediscovered wonderland of Czech surrealism
