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    <author><![CDATA[Noel Vera]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I'd had the privilege of meeting Mr. Menzel and his lovely wife in this year's Jeonju festival; I think he's got a great sense of humor, and an unsentimental sense of proportion about things--something that I think shines through in Closely Watched Trains.
        
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      <![CDATA[That's good news about the Chicago Int'l Film Fest.  Hopefully it will eventually find its way out here to the Left Coast as well.
        
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      <![CDATA["I Served the King of England" will be screened as part of the Chicago International Film Festival. I've just returned from the festival-launch party, which included a round-up video with a clip from the Menzel feature. It looked pretty funny, which may explain why it's unpalatable to U.S. audiences. Post-communist countries are supposed to be sad, you know.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Steve]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Facets' Film School recently screened a series of these films, the Czech New Wave.
    [url]http://www.facets.org/asticat?function=web&catname=facets&web=cinematheque&path=/filmschool/filmschoolarchives/springsession2007#02[/url]
        
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      <![CDATA[I've seen <i>Closely Watched Trains</i> a few years ago, but I can't remember it precisely enough to be sure of its similarities with recent Cannes award winner <i>California Dreamin' (endless)</i> by Romanian Cristian Nemescu. There seems to be more than a few coincidences, although arranged differently in the story. 
    I find Menzel largely superior, of course. Just wondering about the possible inspiration. What do you think?
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm disappointed that Menzel's latest, "I Served the King of England" (which, like "Closely Watched Trains," has as its source a novel by Bohumil Hrabal), hasn't at least turned up on the festival circuit in the U.S.  Any ideas why this might be the case?  
    
    At least Menzel's wonderful "Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin" received at least one or two festival screenings in North American in 1995 before the powers that be deemed it unreleasable to U.S. audiences.
        
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