A new digital restoration of the famed Czech animator Karel Zeman's Invention for Destruction (1958) (which was released in the United States in 1961 as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne) will ...

FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2:00 P.M. AND SUNDAY, JULY 12, 2:00 P.M. Dir. Karel Zeman, 1958, 78 mins. In Czech with English subtitles. World premiere of a new DCP restoration. Written by František Hrubin, based ...

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A former marketing man for a shoe company, Karel Zeman took a job for an animation studio and went on to create not only several of the most influential Czech films of all time, but become arguably ...

Eastern Europe's answer to Ray Harryhausen gets his documentary due. By THR Staff FILM ADVENTURER KAREL ZEMAN Still - H 2015 6 hours ago ...

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, will explore the history of animation from the 1920s to the 1940s in an exhibition that starts Friday.

In this conversation filmed by the Criterion Collection in 2019 animator and visualeffects supervisor Phil Tippett and visualeffects artist Jim Aupperle discuss their ...

When we think of Czech cinema, we typically recall the new-wave films of the 1960s, including such Oscar winners as “The Shop on Main Street” (1965) and “Closely Watched Trains” (1966), as well as the ...

Karel Zeman was a brilliant pioneer of special effects in film. Despite his artistic talent, his parents insisted he study business. At the age of 17, he went to Aix-en-Provence in the south of France ...