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  1. "Set in the run up to the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, 'Waves' is most fascinated with the way those working at the International News Office at Czechoslovak Radio served as a last standing bulwark against the authoritarianism that would eventually fully take over in 1968. . ."

    Fim Review: 'Waves' Journalism Thriller on End of Prague Spring

    variety.com/2024/film/reviews/ via "Variety"
    Photo via The Prague Reporter
    #Waves #VLNY #Movies #PragueSpring #Czechoslovakia #Journalism #News #Press

  2. 🇨🇿#PragueSpring 2/2

    The invading soldiers were shocked when they came to a peaceful country-there was no violent revolution to fight against!

    But they still kidnapped the country's leadership to #Moscow.
    Then the Russians established more pro-Kremlin totalitarian regime in #czechoslovakia 🇨🇿 until 1989 (#VelvetRevolution).

  3. 🇨🇿 #PragueSpring 1/2

    56 year ago, in 1968:

    #Russia (and the countires totally controlled and occupied by #Moscow back then) attacked #Czechoslovakia with tanks under the pretext that they were going to fight "against the revanchist fascist revolution".

    That sounds familiar, right?

  4. Milos Foreman was there for the #PragueSpring so this is more than just sentimentality. And Twyla Tharp is a genius. And Renn Woods is tremendous.

    You should watch the breathtaking opening of HAIR (1979) again:

    youtu.be/Cb8luHdpR84

    #movies #moviescene #dance

  5. The more I read about it, the more I want to see #Daisies by Věra Chytilová. This is a really essential essay about the movie, the historical moment it was made and it’s complicated relation to (western) #feminism.
    #cinema #movies #EasternEurope #PragueSpring #WomenArtists #anarchism #dada

    criterion.com/current/posts/79