{"id":17300,"date":"2015-10-03T01:27:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T00:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17300"},"modified":"2025-09-20T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:32:07","slug":"don-juan-a-film-by-jan-svankmajer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/10\/03\/don-juan-a-film-by-jan-svankmajer\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Juan, a film by Jan \u0160vankmajer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tTIyd-pLvm8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/svankmajer.jpg\" alt=\"svankmajer.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Thomas Ligotti for the past week so here&#8217;s something Ligottian: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tTIyd-pLvm8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a short film performed by life-size wooden puppets<\/a>. \u0160vankmajer&#8217;s production from 1969 conveys the Don Juan legend with actors masquerading as traditional Czech marionettes, the proceedings being scored by music from the great Zden\u011bk Li\u0161ka. No English subtitles on this one so if you don&#8217;t speak Czech or Russian you can either relish the mystery or take it as a prompt to buy a DVD. While we&#8217;re on the subject of Ligotti, the new Penguin edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com\/book\/songs-of-a-dead-dreamer-and-grimscribe-by-thomas-ligotti\/9780143107767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Songs of a Dead Dreamer\/Grimscribe<\/em><\/a> is published next week. I recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/10\/29\/the-pendulum-the-pit-and-hope\/\">The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/08\/22\/two-sides-of-liska\/\">Two sides of Li\u0161ka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/03\/24\/the-torchbearer-by-vaclav-svankmajer\/\">The Torchbearer by V\u00e1clav \u0160vankmajer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Thomas Ligotti for the past week so here&#8217;s something Ligottian: a short film performed by life-size wooden puppets. \u0160vankmajer&#8217;s production from 1969 conveys the Don Juan legend with actors masquerading as traditional Czech marionettes, the proceedings being scored by music from the great Zden\u011bk Li\u0161ka. No English subtitles on this one so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/10\/03\/don-juan-a-film-by-jan-svankmajer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don Juan, a film by Jan \u0160vankmajer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,42,7],"tags":[375,3233,3527,5099],"class_list":["post-17300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-books","category-film","tag-jan-svankmajer","tag-thomas-ligotti","tag-vaclav-svankmajer","tag-zdenek-liska"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4v2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}