{"id":37781,"date":"2014-06-25T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/?post_type=novinka&p=37781"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:59:33","slug":"second-run-releases-jakubiskos-birds-orphans-and-fools","status":"publish","type":"novinka","link":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/news\/second-run-releases-jakubiskos-birds-orphans-and-fools\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Run Releases Jakubisko’s Birds, Orphans and Fools"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the release of The Sun in a Net<\/em> in August 2013, UK’s Second Run releases its second title of the Slovak classics series and presents one of the most radical films of the Czechoslovak New Wave, Juraj Jakubisko’s Birds, Orphans and Fools <\/em><\/a>(1969), licensed by the Slovak Film Institute.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jakubisko’s tale of love, death and insanity focuses on the unconventional relationship between two men and a Jewish orphan girl as they travail a war-torn landscape of bombed-out churches and wrecked homes. After its completion in 1969, the film was repressed by the Communist Censorship Authorities and spent years locked in vaults only to be rediscovered after 1989 Velvet Revolution and come to rank among the five best Slovak films by Slovak and Czech film critics.<\/p>\n

Mehelli Modi of Second Run comments on the motivation to release this particular title in the first Slovak series with his publishing house: “Slovak cinema is one of the least known international cinemas in the UK and Juraj Jakubisko\u2019s wonderful early films have never been released here.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Modi continues: “Birds, Orphans and Fools<\/em> is the first of Jakubisko\u2019s films that Second Run are releasing and we hope to follow it with more films from this key Slovak artist. The film is, undoubtedly, politically and formally one of the most radical films of the Czechoslovak New Wave, complemented by an influential visual approach through the cinematography of Igor Luther and the remarkable musical motifs from the great Zden\u011bk Li\u0161ka.<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a wonderful piece of dialogue in the film which catches its special essence, \u201cCourage for foolishness\u201d. What an astonishing rediscovery, I hope, Juraj Jakubisko\u2019s Birds, Orphans and Fools will be!<\/em><\/p>\n

The DVD is\u00a0presented in a superb new HD digital transfer with restored picture and sound and features a new essay on the film by author Peter Hames.<\/p>\n

The Birds entered the market on June 24, 2014, with a considerable response from the critics:
\nMovieMail, by Michael Brooke: “Second Run\u2019s second Slovak classic could hardly be more different from last year\u2019s The Sun in a Net: it becomes obvious in seconds why director Juraj Jakubisko is known as \u2018the Slovak Fellini\u2019 and has also attracted comparisons with Peter Greenaway, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Emir Kusturica and Sergo Parajanov. … Filled with dazzling, hallucinatory images but suppressed until the Velvet Revolution unlocked the vaults, this is another extraordinary rediscovery of Slovak cinema.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Tom Birchenough for the Arts Desk:<\/a> “What an astonishing rediscovery Juraj Jakubisko\u2019s Birds, Orphans and Fools is! The 1969 Slovak film stans both outside history, and yet firmly within the context of its time, the year after Soviet troops quelled the Prague Spring. But its dating is eternal: the title\u2019s inspired by the folk saying, \u201cGod takes care of birds, orphans and fools.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Second Run DVDs are available in stores, through the website of Second Run and all the online retailers such as Amazon, MovieMail, Zavvi, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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