Jana Boková Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Jana Boková
Directing
Biography
Boková (born in 1948) is a Czech film director. Born in Prague, she left Czechoslovakia at the time of the Soviet invasion in August 1968 to attend a conference of art students in Austria, then emigrated to Paris, France to study at the Sorbonne. She then lived in the United States and worked as a contributing photographer for Rolling Stone magazine, and subsequently became a film student at the National Film School in England debuting as a film director in 1975 with the critically acclaimed Militia Battlefield. She made films regularly for the BBC arts series Omnibus and Arena, winning many international awards. She wrote and directed the 1986 drama film Hôtel du Paradis, which was shown out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987. In 2001, Boková was approached by musician Eric Clapton to direct a music video, but ended up filming a feature-length documentary film called Eric Clapton and Friends which covered Clapton's band's rehearsals and preparations for a world tour. In 2003, the Cinémathèque Française hosted a complete retrospective of Boková's work. In 2012 Jana Bokova received a Czech award for cultural achievement.
Filmography Movies
Production
Before Night Falls
Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Paradise Hotel
A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carole Regnier), Goldman meets Frederique (Berangere Bonvoisin), who is hiding from her former lover. French financier Arthur (Fabrice Luchini) hopes to get into the film industry and bends the ear of a British director (Michael Medwin). The talkative film has little action, and none of the characters evoke much interest or resolve their dilemma.
Militia Battefield
An unusual documentary that looks at the gay clubs and expatriate entertainers in London who exist in a bizarre subculture. It focuses on the story of Militia Battlefield, a young singer in search of work, and a homosexual pianist who has just married an old lady.
Diary for a Tale
A young man works in the port of Buenos Aires translating the love letters that prostitutes receive and seeks inspiration for his works in them.
Bahia of All the Saints
This documentary explores the music ,culture and religion of this Brazilian city.
Bahia of All the Saints
This documentary explores the music ,culture and religion of this Brazilian city.
Sunset People
Sunset Boulevard stretches 27 miles from Los Angeles’ Chinatown all the way to the ocean – a ride made famous by Philip Marlowe in the Chandler books. Film star mansions give way to tatty motels; exclusive offices stand alongside nightclubs with aspiring comics, and amateur nude contests. Then the famous ‘strip’ and Hollywood’s legendary coffee shop, Schwabs, where (they say) a girl in a tight sweater turned into Lana Turner. Meet some of Sunset’s most colourful and improbable residents – the failed showbiz impresario who made his millions selling cookies, and the high-rise developer who let John Wayne take his cow up in the lift… the lucky ones have achieved a peculiarly Hollywood brand of success, but every day on Sunset you meet the other ones: still looking for a break, for a job, for a deal. All of them still trying to play their part in the Hollywood dream.
Love Is Like a Violin
Shows the Common Stock Theatre Company working on a project involving old people living in the London Borough of Hammersmith. By direct contact with elderly people, and in conjunction with a writer, the members of the company attempt to create a dramatised impression of the life of the elderly.
Love Is Like a Violin
Shows the Common Stock Theatre Company working on a project involving old people living in the London Borough of Hammersmith. By direct contact with elderly people, and in conjunction with a writer, the members of the company attempt to create a dramatised impression of the life of the elderly.
Jokey
The world's greatest one-string fiddle player reminisces. The film is dedicated to the memory of Albert Sandler.
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