Few directors deserve the adjectives “visionary,” “disturbing,” and “surreal” more than Jan Svankmajer, the 72-year-old Czech puppetmaster and conductor of nightmarish stop-motion hallucinations. Banned from making films in his native country for several years, Svankmajer plumbs the dark side of the contemporary psyche with subversive and uncanny interpretations of texts like Faust, Jabberwocky, and Alice […]