Publication details
Ivan Passer: Filmový vypravěč rozmanitostí aneb od Intimního osvětlení k Nomádovi
| Title in English | The Storyteller of Diversities: The Films of Ivan Passer, from Intimate Lighting to Nomad |
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | This monograph deals with the life and work of Czech-American film director Ivan Passer (born July 10, 1933 in Prague). Ivan Passer belongs to the legendary generation of the Czech New Wave of the 1960s. He worked as the closest collaborator of Miloš Forman on all his Czech films and made his own directorial debut with Intimate Lighting (1965), one of the classic works of Czech and world cinema. After the Soviet invasion in 1968, he left Czechoslovakia for the USA. He made fifteen other films abroad; among them, Cutter's Way (1981) particularly stands out as one of the emblematic films of the American neo-noir and post-Vietnam cycle. It could be said that Passer's American career has been governed by the tension between his beginnings in the auteur tradition of European art cinema, and the prevailing, mainstream practices of filmmaking in the USA. Difficult to classify, Passer has won a unique position as a director who makes minority films within the mainstream. |
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