MODERNISM, MADNESS AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
This post concerns the year, 1937, in Paul’s life, just after he got his diploma in engineering and architecture from the Swiss Federal Technical University in Zurich. He went to London to look for a job. The chapter develops the seed of the story that was planted earlier in this blog, PAUL AND LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY. […]
In last week’s post I wrote about candidates we auditioned for After The Velvet Revolution. This week is about a few hours on the last day of my initial trip to Prague when we edited the trailer for the project View Part Four here. If you missed Part One, Part Two, or Part Three click […]
In last week’s post I shared excerpts from the journal that I kept during the genesis of the project. It was about how Jiří Ježek and I came to conceive and work together on After The Velvet Revolution. This week I’ll share what it was like to start work on the film in Prague. View Part […]
When I was very young, on my first job as a producer and director, I was dispatched to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to produce some dramatic recreations from the life of the 17th century astronomer, Johannes Kepler, for the PBS television series Cosmos. The year was 1978 and Czechoslovakia was firmly under the thumb of communist hegemony. […]
Where does a story begin? Did The Restless Hungarian begin in New York in 1996, when I sat down and interviewed my frail, eighty-two year old father about his life? Or after he died, in 1999, when my stepmother mailed me a huge box of his letters, personal papers and photographs? Or did it begin […]