Diamonds of the Night 04/06/19
The Criterion Collection
Blu-ray
Director Jan NÄ›mec made his name during the Czech New Wave of the 1960s, and later saw his career cut short when the ruling party decided to classify one of his films as ‘banned forever.’ This first feature is a striking chase story about two young men escaped from a Nazi prison train. It experiments with filmic space, looking for psychological depth by mixing a subjective pursuit with the main characters’ memories and thought-dreams. The extras give us a close-up look at a director who paid a steep price for defying the state. On Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.
04/06/19