Television
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Agnieszka Holland on the Prague Spring
In 1968, over 150,000 Red Army troops entered Czechoslovakia to reverse the political liberalization known as the Prague Spring. Agnieszka Holland’s new movie Burning Bush, about the Soviet invasion and its aftermath, aired originally on HBO in Europe. The work of Holland, a Pole educated in Prague, is familiar to American audiences. Her long list…
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Baal-ieve It or Not
Oskar Homolka and David Bowie—not much in common there, right? Guess again. The Viennese actor (I Remember Mama, War and Peace, Funeral in Berlin) played Baal, the frolicsome sociopath in Bertolt Brecht’s play of that name, and so did the British rock star. Homolka, who died in 1978, was Baal during the Weimar Republic, not…
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First Things has reprinted what your editor wrote a while back on Pete Seeger, who died Monday at the age of 94.
Painting the Culture Red 