Animator and filmmaker Karel Zeman (1910-89) is a little-known figure in the U.S., even among animation and fantasy fans. But “A Ship With Painted Sails: The Fabulous Animation of Karel Zeman!” a ...

Baron Munchausen was a real figure, whose tendency to embellish details of his military career led to his name becoming synonymous with the telling of tall tales. Zeman’s boldest intervention was to ...

Czech director Karel Zeman’s 1962 film is the Egyptian’s adventure movie pick this weekend. A weird and wonderful 85 minutes of pure swashbuckling and escapades at sea await you. The film was recently ...

The stories of Baron Münchhausen were enriched by Karel Zeman with a character of a modern astronaut Tommy and compare two different worlds - the world of a rococo cavalier whose fantasy does not have ...

A HUGE influence on Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam (who filmed his own version in 1988), Karel Zeman's 1961 Czech classic comes to DVD courtesy of East European specialists Second Run complete with a ...

Knowing how Zeman’s tricks were realised doesn’t diminish their brilliance, and one of the bonus features from this Second Run release shows a group of contemporary Czech film students attempting to ...