Closely Watched DVDs

Over the past few days, I’ve been quietly updating my guide to Czech Cinema on DVD, and while I still haven’t come close to covering everything that’s available, one milestone has just been passed: it now features the work of fifty filmmakers - and 178 individual films.

All of which would be impressive enough in itself (when I first trawled through Prague video shops less than five years ago, the number of Czech features available on DVD barely scraped double figures), but it’s frankly astonishing when you consider that I’ve deliberately limited my coverage to DVDs with English subtitles…

UPDATE: Make that sixty.