Growing Daisies: Second Run DVD helping “unknown” Czechoslovak films find new audiences

The UK's Second Run DVD recently celebrated 10 years of existence and
100 releases. About a quarter of the reissue company’s titles have been
Czechoslovak films, ranging from the relatively famous Intimate Lighting
by
Ivan Passer to Adelheid, a lesser known work by František Vláčil,
director of the classic Marketa Lazarová. When I met the company’s
founder Mehelli Modi at a busy London café I wanted to know how he
selects
the Czechoslovak movies he releases. As he explained, it all springs from
his own life-long passion.