Marketa Lazarova

(Frantisek Vlacil, 1967).
Frantisek Vlacil’s atmospheric, symbol-charged medieval epic—a wide-screen black-and-white feast for the eyes—has been compared to Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leone, as well as Tarkovsky’s near-contemporaneous Andrei Rublev. All but unknown here, it was years in the making and is justly considered a national masterpiece by the Czechs.

Mon., June 29, 7:30 p.m., 2009