I'd greatly admired the work of Second Run DVD as a critic, particularly their reissues of classic Czech and Slovakian films. I was delighted to be able to write the inlay booklets for three of them, all by first-rate directors from the golden age of Czechoslovak cinema:
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, by Karel Zeman: the definitive version of the oft-filmed collection of tall tales by a pioneer of animation.
The Ear, by Karel Kachyňa: joining Peter Hames and Steven Schneider in writing about this intense thriller of surveillance and betrayal, banned for over twenty years.
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself With Tea, by Jindřich Polák: an absolutely outrageous black comedy about the race to stop time-travelling Nazis altering the path of World War II, and one of the funniest films ever made.