PRAGUE, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Influential Czech director Jiri Menzel, whose 1966 movie "Closely Watched Trains" won the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, has died at age 82, his wife, Olga ...

The Chinese fest will also highlight "film creations from the 'Global South,' screening rare classics," such as the Iranian film 'The Sealed Soil' and Angolan war of independence drama 'Sambizanga.' ...

I Served the King of England, an audacious new film from veteran Czech writer-director Jiri Menzel, feels something like an Eastern European Forrest Gump, in that it follows a naive young man through ...

I first got to know the Czech director Jiri Menzel through his whimsical 1966 Oscar-winner, “Closely Watched Trains.” Looking up my old review, I found a sentence that could also apply to his latest ...

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For the last decade American movie audiences have been bludgeoned so mercilessly with poorly and vacuously executed whimsy (“We’re drowning in quirk,” Michael Hirschorn famously wrote in the September ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Jiri Menzel, a Czech director whose 1966 movie “Closely Watched Trains” won the Academy Award for the best foreign language film has died. He was 82. Menzel’s wife, Olga, announced his ...

Oscar-winning Czech director, writer and actor Jiri Menzel died Saturday following a long illness. Menzel’s death was confirmed by his wife, Olga, who posted the news on Instagram and Facebook late ...

Czech director Jiri Menzel, who helmed the Oscar-winning feature Closely Watched Trains, died on Saturday after a long battle with an undisclosed illness. He was 82. His wife, Olga confirmed his death ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Jiri Menzel, a Czech director whose 1966 movie “Closely Watched Trains” won the Academy Award for the best foreign language film has died. He was 82. Menzel’s wife, Olga, announced his ...