My favorite cult movie story goes like this: One Saturday evening in 1982 in the UK, the start of the BBC's football show "Match of the Day" was delayed, causing some impatient viewers to flip over to the other two channels to kill some time. Some landing on BBC 2 found themselves drawn into a wacky time travel farce from Czechoslovakia involving identical twins, suitcase nukes, and Hitler's bunker called "Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself With Tea." Oldrich Lipsky's nutty film never received a theatrical release in the UK and only aired that one time on terrestrial TV, creating an unlikely following among a small group of bewildered footy fans.
Almost anything has the potential to become a cult film if it strikes a chord with the right audience. "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" was a midnight movie staple almost from the get-go, with fans attending screenings...
Almost anything has the potential to become a cult film if it strikes a chord with the right audience. "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" was a midnight movie staple almost from the get-go, with fans attending screenings...
- 9/6/2022
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
Czech cinema that which isn't closely connected to the New Wave often seems to inhabit a hermetically sealed bubble adrift from real-world concerns, devoted to stylistic excess for its own sake, pleasing to the eye and ear but starving the mind: a result, no doubt, of stringent state censorship. Many filmmakers chose to escape the problem of having every promising subject matter or approach barred to them by fleeing into the past, and into fantasy, with the result that the Czech's, following the example of former animator Karel Zeman, led the world in adaptations of Jules Verne novels nobody else could be bothered filming.
So to Oldrich Lipský's The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981), a handsomely-mounted, occasionally amusing, visually inventive and completely pointless film, which at least partially overcomes its state-enforced toothlessness by sheer invention.
So to Oldrich Lipský's The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981), a handsomely-mounted, occasionally amusing, visually inventive and completely pointless film, which at least partially overcomes its state-enforced toothlessness by sheer invention.
- 2/2/2011
- MUBI
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