MODERNISM, MADNESS AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
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 […]
In last week’s post I wrote about how I came to make the film After The Velvet Revolution. Now I want to share with you some excerpts from a journal that I kept during the early days of the project. View Part Two here. If you missed Part One, here is the link. Read about […]
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. […]