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INSIDE Flights of fancy in Imagina sidebar English Section, page 2 Short films at KVIFF English Section, page 3 The fabulous world of Karel Zeman English Section, page 4 Tomorrow’s program Czech Section, pages 5-8

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Jamie Dornan wows the crowd with a fleeting visit to the fest. DORNAN: ‘I’D KILL HEYDRICH MYSELF’ LOWDOWN

Having made a splash starring oppo- What do you like about the part? ally rather than having to really dig too page, which is great. They’re heroes in There’s far more to doing a film site Gillian Anderson as the serial killer You always need a drive in everything far. He’s a man with a mission to carry the sense of what they did, but very much fest than scoring great tickets, Peter Paul Spector in the popular BBC you do and a reason to tell the story. As out and it’s a mission for the right rea- on the page you see that they are flawed, crashing parties and riding around series The Fall, Jamie Dornan became a an actor, you’ve got to have something sons. It’s not someone like Spector who and have very human aspects to them in sleek BMWs with stars and bad household name this year thanks to the that drives you every day on the set. is murdering people just for no good rea- that would hinder trying to carry out an boy geniuses. But skills at doing this erotic romance Fifty Shades of Grey. He Could there be any stronger drive needed son... This is murder in a sense, but it’s exercise like this. last item gain importance during gave a presser at KVIFF yesterday on his than the opportunity to assassinate some- for a greater good. Some people say that the Heydrich KV’s notoriously schizoid weather new project Anthropoid, which he’s due one so horrific. There’s nobody in the And what’s your view of Jan Kubiš? assassination was pointless. And that patterns, of course. to start shooting in the . world now who can’t see that Heydrich I feel that Jan’s the closest character to it only resulted in horrible reprisals During the most recent heavy Helmed by Sean Ellis (Cashback, Metro was evil... So to have that, to bring that to myself that I’ve played. And so that like the Lidice massacre. What’s your downpour one soaked soul who Manila), Dornan will play alongside fel- work every day, I’m so excited about the means that there’s parts of the research take on this? happened to find himself midway low Irishman Cillian Murphy as Jan idea of having that as my drive.... that I’ve done for other characters that I guess it’s not really my place to say. down the Promenade when the sky Kubiš, one of two Czech resistance fight- How will you be preparing for the don’t need to be done. They don’t make People are going to look at it from both opened up was none other than the ers who assassinated the infamous role? sense just as long as you have a very sides. Ultimately, I think it sent a very phenomenally prolific bad-guy actor Nazi Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and People have different ways and means strong idea of why they are doing what strong message to show that the Czech Udo Kier. Huddling with a small Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich, in WWII. of researching characters and getting in- they are doing and the situation at the people were up for a fight and weren’t group that was trying to flag down to the mindset of whoever they’re going time. I think that is enough. willing to be treated in that way. For me, one of the fest transport cars, the What attracted you to Anthropoid? to play. Sometimes you do things that You’ll be playing a Czech national I see it as a very heroic act. I think if I veteran thesp found himself over- I think when I first read the script, the you feel are right to embody a character, hero. Will you be trying to “humanize” was in that position myself, I probably looked when a passenger in the fact that I didn’t know about the story – and sometimes you push limits. The way the man behind the myth? would have done the same thing. I have sedan asked if the younger woman something like that, which had such a I prepared to play someone like Spector I think you said it there [it’s about] try- a strong understanding of why people next to him needed a lift. massive knock-on effect on an entire na- in The Fall – you take yourself to dark ing to make him someone people can re- see it the other way, based on events af- When Kier asked why he wasn’t tion – I found it kind of mad to have not places. You find out a lot about yourself late to...These were just normal guys terwards, but for me personally, I think offered the ride himself, the still-dry known about that. The heroism involved, that maybe you don’t always want to find who were fighting for something they they ultimately had to do what they had BMW blagger added insult to injury, the sacrifice involved...they felt – partic- out and it’s quite an interesting process. fiercely believed in. A lot of that work, to do. replying that in any such contest an ularly Jan – like someone you could re- For this particular project, I don’t think I thankfully, is done for me on the page. attractive woman would usually get late to. Guys who were fighting for have to go to those similar kinds of All the human flaws and all the things The questions above were recorded by the nod. Kier, ever the good sport, something that they truly believed in, but places. I think there are things about Jan that make him a tangible person, the yesterday’s press conference moderator, drew on his years of comic timing who were normal guys. that will make sense to me more person- everyman you can relate to are on the Veronika Bednářová. z and took it all with ironic grace. z SEE YOU THERE EXPLAINER

JAKOB OFTEBRO ACTOR, GOLD COAST GETTING A FILM INTO A GREAT FEST? HERE’S HOW Filmmakers wondering Horyna, who curates the Today, I would love to see Bridgend and You can still catch Norwegian actor how best to get their documentary competition, 45 Years, if I can make it. I’ve read about Jakob Oftebro in the Danish main-competi- work screened at a major adds that the fest seeks out these films and I’ve heard the acting in tion entry Gold Coast today at 1pm (Pupp festival know they need “creative documentary, not both movies is really good. I’m interested Cinema) and tomorrow at 8pm (Drahomíra not have massive budg- those telling you something in Bridgend because it’s by the director Cinema). (IP) z ets, stars, or even revolu- but more helping you to ex- Jeppe Rønde, who’s also Danish [like our tionary cinematic genius. perience those things.” In film]. I don’t know him personally, but What really counts, other words, “expository or I’ve heard a lot about him. I would also based on the films screening at top fests gories at KVIFF is that your film be TV” films are out. But the good news is, like to see Virgin Mountain tomorrow. It’s such as KVIFF, Cannes, and Berlinale, a world, international, or European pre- the subject could be anything – so long screening very early, but I think it’s worth is creativity. miere. Screening in your home country as it avoids clichés. it, because I’ve been told it’s great. I also This quality is something of a know- if it’s not the Czech Republic might still “In terms of topic, it’s not specialized know the director Dagur Kári personally, it-when-you-see-it thing, of course, but be OK before coming to KV but your but more about formal style and narra- so I’d like to catch it as I still haven’t seen with the help of a few rules and best film will need to have been finished tive pattern.” it yet. practices approaches, hundreds of within the last year. So fresh is also key. If you’re going the non-fiction route emerging Godards and Herzogs have But it’s mainly about exploring – the (where more and more creative film- Bridgend screens today at 9:30pm (Thermal made it to the Thermal Grand Hall KVIFF bylaws specify that the fest is making is winning attention these days) Cinema B). 45 Years is also screening today screen with their premieres – and if they dedicated to promoting “artistic cine- do remember at KVIFF you also need at 5pm (Thermal Grand Hall). Virgin Mountain can do it, so can you. ma” so, as programmer Martin Horyna to be under 30 minutes or over 60. screens tomorrow at 9:30am (Thermal Small First, it’s about being first. The re- puts it, “We have to feel it’s in some Now finish polishing up that rough Hall). quirements of all the competitive cate- way innovative.” cut and submit! (WT) z strana 2 / page 2 FESTIVAL DAILY Friday, July 10, 2015

FESTIVAL FLIGHTS OF FANCY MY KV Gillian Purves Eileen Hofer KVIFF’s Imagina section is Director, Horizons a playground for directors who like to push the boundaries when What was your inspiration for this documen- it comes not just to content but al- tary on Cuban ballet legend Alicia Alonso, the so form. “The idea is to give mentor in her 90s who lost her vision during space to films that are even be- her 20s? yond what we call a festival film,” A friend of mine told me about this amazing says KVIFF programmer Viktor dancer who became blind and despite this handi- Palák, “something that even fes- cap she decided to struggle and to get on stage and tivalgoers will not expect – films to learn how to handle her art, her work. For me it that experiment with style, with was a human message in the sense that whenever narration, very often films with- you have a problem we usually say, “I can’t do it out narration, completely abstract anymore.” But the message is you have to struggle works, sometimes films that we and you can go beyond the horizons. take out of different contexts like How did you get access to the three gener- a gallery context and screen them ations of dancers in the film? at a film festival, which gives When I met Alonso in Cuba I also met the pri- them a different perspective.” Photo: KVIFF ma ballerina. She’s 35 years old and we followed Six short films from Imagina’s Lost Case remixes old scenes to create a new Colombo episode. her and we brought her to her physiotherapist. He line-up are screening together to- asks her, “Do you remember the first time you day as a block called Imagina – it seems it is a film that fits the idea of what a film could be showed up? I asked you, ‘What is your aim? Short Films I: Twelve Tales Told, the Imagina brief perfectly. and of how we perceive films in Where do you want to go? To the beginning of the Things, Nipomo, Vanishing According to Palák “the co-direc- general.” beach? Or more near the sea?’ And you said, Circuit, The Old Jewish tor Guy Maddin pops into my Another film that certainly does ‘Beyond the horizons to infinity.’” So the prima What else is on your list of things to do while Cemetery and Back Track.“Back mind immediately as an artist that is Belgian director Gust Van ballerina had no limits. She was ready for any- here? Track and Twelve Tales Told are with completely boundless imag- den Berghe’s Lucifer, which thing. I’m taking a trip to Marienbad because I had in 3D,” says Palák, “which is, ination and this shows very much twists our ideas of film format What was it about ballet that you felt would a dream to visit it and I was sad because I forgot I wouldn’t say a trend, but some- in The Forbidden Room.” German completely by presenting us with make such a powerful metaphor about freedom my book by Milan Kundera, The Unbearable thing that has been appearing actor Udo Kier, who appears in a circular rather than a rectangu- under dictatorship? Lightness of Being, as it’s set [in a Czech spa town more in the past couple of years – the film, will be present at the lar image. This simple adjustment I was interested in this woman and that’s why it like] Karlovy Vary and I read it when I was 15 but experimental films in 3D.” Back screening today. throws all the rules of composi- became ballet but it could have been football or I really wanted to read it again here. And I saw the Track takes snippets from more However surreal The Forbidden tion out the (rectangular) window anything. Once I was there I realized there was Arabian Nights trilogy by Miguel Gomes. Next than 20 old movies and re- Room may seem, Palák believes and it’s almost as if the director is a big metaphor between the way she is still, at 94, we take Horizons to Locarno. arranges them into a new narra- that “the most radical out of these working with a brand new medi- taking care of her castle, which is ballet, and the tive, a similar device to that used [films] would be natural history um as he explores themes of image of the Castros – the two brothers who are Horizons screens today at 2pm (Drahomíra). It does in Lost Case, where Czech direc- by James Benning, who is very heaven, hell, and paradise on still dealing with their island. They’re tired, ex- not feature Omara Portuondo as suggested by an ear- tor Roman Štětina remixes scenes well known to people following Earth in a Mexican village. hausted and at the end of a dream that never came lier Festival Daily article. (WT) z from the American TV series this kind of experimental cine- true. Columbo to create an entirely ma.” In this case Benning takes us Lost Case will be screening at the And you met the legendary singer Omara new episode. behind the scenes at Vienna’s festival tomorrow (12:30pm,Thermal Portuondo, learned she also studied ballet, and NOTICE The Forbidden Room is a col- Museum of Natural History. “He Cinema B), natural history will screen are putting her in a new short you’re develop- Today’s screening of The Falling, originally lage of a different kind. With always makes just static shots of today (12:30pm, Thermal Cinema B), ing...Any other adventures? scheduled for the Thermal Congress Hall at 4pm bizarre scenes such as sailors on various lengths,” says Palák. “It and all of the other films mentioned We were followed by a spy. The press person has been moved to the KV Theater at 9:30pm. a submarine trying to make their could be just seconds or it could in this article are also screening to- they gave us had two assistants and every time we Today there will be an added screening in 3D of air supply last longer by inhaling be 15 minutes. The films he day in one block (3:30pm, Čas tried to shoot something, someone would show up Love by Gaspar Noé (midnight, Čas Cinema). z the air pockets from flapjacks, makes are capable of broadening Cinema). z in 10 seconds and say, ‘No, no, no, no...’ musíte vidět RAW DRAMA IN TEXAS Velká interaktivní Veronika Bednářová Director and screenwriter výstava Micah Magee is at KVIFF with her feature debut Petting Zoo, about a 17-year-old girl who dis- covers she is pregnant. The film was also presented at the Berlinale and SXSW in Austin, Texas.

Was the film a long-term project for you? Did you have it in mind for a long time? I guess I have several movies in mind all the time. But this was certainly one that was important to make. It was my graduation film from the German Film and Television Academy Berlin, so it’s also special because it finally got me out of the school. Slavné deníky How much of your real life is depicted in it? Like with most first features, konečně you draw a lot on your own ex- periences. I grew up in San Antonio, Texas. I went back and got all of the sounds of crickets v Praze and birds and went to all my fa- Photo: Petr Horník vorite places. There were a lot of Micah Magee’s Texas childhood was a source of inspiration for Petting Zoo. exhibition information things that I wanted to take with in czech and english me from my home because I’m I waited tables through college that the character lost the baby. living away from home now, so it and high school. Or how do you see it? was important for me to kind of So is your movie a kind of so- I don’t think it’s a good thing hold on to some of those things. cial statement? that she lost the baby. I think So it’s autobiographical in that In making the film I wasn’t try- that’s a really hard thing. sense. ing to say that life in Texas is re- I also lost a baby at about six PALÁC LUCERNA Was your family also a chal- ally hard or anything, it was more months and actually I called the lenging one? trying to portray that I missed it university and said I’d really like Well, my parents are both in a way. And to figure out how to go back to school. And the Velký sál dancers. They had a dance com- people deal with women and with woman on the phone said “I know pany. So I don’t think they neces- girls, and with themselves. All the this must be hard for you but ŠTĚPÁNSKÁ 61, PRAHA 1 sarily belong to the same milieu different potentials that a young I think it’s the best thing for you that is described in the film. woman has – the potential to be right now,” and I said “You fuck- od 16. 6. do 28. 8. 2015 I think not having money in the a mother and to be something else ing bitch!” I was really mad at States is a lot different from not or to be both. And so I wanted to that point. I did a lot of research Otevřeno denně od 10 do 20 hodin having money in Europe because describe this moment when you when I made the film. It’s actual- there’s an idea that if you don’t have all this potential and also the ly a really common story that re- have money it’s your own fault – moment when you start to realize peats itself. And you find out that people are actually angry with that it’s your own responsibility each story is not so unique. people who don’t have money. to take it and make it yours. www.davincivystava.cz I guess I grew up very well edu- One almost wants to say Petting Zoo screens today at 1pm cated but without any money. [spoiler alert] it’s a good thing (Thermal Congress Hall). z

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KARLOVY VARY SHOWS OFF ITS SHORTS FACES

Laurence Boyce Director Slobodanka Radun here with Youth, which is is expected to arrive at the fes- screening today. Actress Iva Amongst the glittering delights tival today with her debut fea- Janžurová (Coach to Vienna) of the features on offer for ture US 2, which was filmed will be staying in town to ac- cineastes to enjoy at Karlovy in Prague. Director Saverio cept the Festival President’s Vary, there are more than a hand- Costanzo (Hungry Hearts) will Award, which is given to ac- ful of short film gems just waiting be in Karlovy Vary along with tors, directors, and producers to be discovered. As KVIFF does actress Alba Rohrwacher who have contributed in a fun- not currently have an official (Hungry Hearts and Sworn damental way to the develop- short film competition (though Virgin). Harvey Keitel is still ment of film. (GP) z short docs are eligible in the doc- umentary competition) the shorts on offer can sometimes get lost in the sheer size of the festival. But if you take a closer look, you’ll find some perfectly formed ex- amples of amazing filmmakers and astounding stories. The best place to discover shorts is in the program Prague Photo: KVIFF Short Film Festival Presents. The ambitious Latvian film, Castratus, the Boar, won the Grand Prix at the Tampere fest. Included in the section is Christophe M. Saber’s Discipline. has a healthy festival pedigree (it Away from the joys of the movies that play in KVIFF’s fea- The film, set in an Arabic shop in won the Grand Prix at the presti- Prague Short Film Festival, the ture competitions in the future. Switzerland, sees a man slap his gious Tampere Film Festival). Imagina section also has plenty Each of the ten films shows little girl as a punishment. Soon With a strong central perform- of short films worth finding the a unique style and authorial voice arguments spread throughout, de- ance and a sense of impeccable time for. Films to look out for in- with particular movies to check bating the rights and wrongs of style, the film demonstrates how clude The Old Jewish Cemetery, out including Patrick Vollrath’s his actions. The film is the perfect short films can be intimate yet directed by Sergei Loznitsa. Everything Will Be Okay. Iva Janžurová Harvey Keitel example of what makes a short grandiose at the same time. Loznitsa – known for such fea- Vollrath’s film is a brilliantly film work: in a little over 10 min- The highlight of the pro- tures as My Joy and In The Fog – tense story about a father who utes it shows how small and gramme is perhaps Jennifer has crafted a simple yet affecting picks up his daughter and soon seemingly insignificant moments Reeder’s A Million Miles Away. work examining an old burial site discovers that the day is not going in life can have seismic effects on The US film has won a tremen- that lacks distinguishing features to be a normal one. Urgent and our thinking. The same can also dous number of awards across the but speaks of a time past and the emotional, the film showcases an be said for Icelandic film Chum European short film circuit and is complex weight of history. Back undoubted talent. about two elderly men whose a beguiling piece of work about Track, the latest film from Oscar So make sure that you catch up friendship is disrupted when female empowerment and grow- nominee Virgil Widrich, is also on the short films at Karlovy a woman enters one of their lives. ing up. With a patchwork style in- highly anticipated. Playing with Vary, especially if you’ve never It’s a clever, gently funny, and fluenced by 1980’s US teen films, cinema history as he did in really given shorts a chance be- pointed work about masculinity the movie soon drifts into a set movies such as Fast Film, he cre- fore. and growing older. piece which ensures you’ll never ates a twisted take on the film noir More overtly dramatic is listen to Judas Priest in the same which is exhilarating. Laurence Boyce is a journalist for Castratus, the Boar, an epically way again. It’s a moment of tran- And let’s not forget Future Screen International and the editor staged tale of a loner who hides scendence that makes the film not Frames: Ten New Filmmakers of Cineuropa Shorts. The Prague a secret from a girl he begins to only one of the best short films of To Follow. The festival’s new Short Film Festival movies will screen date. The Latvian film is an am- the past year or so, but also one of section that highlights those film- together at 4pm today in Národní bitious piece of work that already the best films period. makers who may well be making dům. z Saverio Costanzo Slobodanka Radun CRITIC’S CHOICE Etan Vlessing, Canadian Bureau Chief, The Hollywood Reporter

Small-town life need not be suf- THE SNAKE BROTHERS focating, except in indie dramas, and Jan Prušinovsky's main- Director: Jan Prušinovský competition title is the latest ad- Czech Republic, 2015, 111min dition to the genre. Brothers July 10, 11:30am, Drahomíra Cinema Viper and Cobra, played by real- life brothers Matěj and Kryštof Santiago de Chile Hádek, in their own way deal a partner, fights to escape the low-up to Prušinovský’s soccer- Havana shadow of his younger brother based TV series, Sunday League, with the desolation and poverty Vancouver Miami of their small central Bohemian Cobra, a junkie and troublemak- eventually made into a movie town. Viper, without work or er. The Snake Brothers is a fol- prequel. San Francisco Réunion

Mauricius Los Angeles Don't expect Boogie Nights or INHERENT VICE Magnolia. But Paul Thomas Šanghaj Anderson's 1970’s L.A. retro Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Panama USA, 2014, 148min treatment of Pynchon's 2009 nov- Tokio el – the first of the writer's books July 10, 7pm, Národní dům Lima to make it to big screen – is still impressive. Joaquin Phoenix plays a fun-loving, forever- way, he confronts corrupt cops, cameos by Josh Brolin, Benicio stoned detective solving the case druggies, cultists, neo-Nazi bik- Del Toro, Reese Witherspoon, Paříž of a kidnapped girl. Along the ers, and free love babes. Look for Martin Short, and Owen Wilson.

The 1692 Salem witch trials have THE WITCH provided no end of artistic inspi- ration over the years. But Director: Robert Eggers writer/director Robert Eggers gets USA/Canada, 2015, 90min downright spooky capturing New July 10, midnight, Small Hall – Thermal England puritans turning on one another in The Witch, a breakout Sundance hit, and a debut feature formances from leads Anya in ancient forests oozing with to boot, that screens at midnight. Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, and ethereal terror that fuel local hys- This not-so-scary horror tale has Kate Dickie. And it has an au- teria after a family's baby vanish- no stars, yet draws strong per- thentic period feel that places you es. That's frightening.

Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson's THE FORBIDDEN ROOM epic ode to lost cinema confound- ed audiences in Sundance, before Directed by: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson RENDEZ-VOUS V PAŘÍŽI impressing cinephiles in Berlin Canada, 2015, 128min with its doomed submarine char- July 10, 1pm., KV Theater Nebo ve více než 1000 dalších destinací díky jedné z největších sítí světa acters and phantasmagoric drama. sdílené s KLM a našimi partnery z aliance SkyTeam. Adventurous film aficionados should show up as Maddin takes there's a lesson in how to take Udo Kier, Charlotte Rampling, them down the rabbit hole with a bath, and images of skeleton Geraldine Chaplin, and Roy wild tales of captivity, deception, women and vampire bananas. Dupuis play a memorable band of S našimi KLM a SkyTeam partnery. Odlety z Prahy. Pro více informací kontaktujte vaši cestovní kancelář, místní pobočku Air France na tel. 233 090 933 nebo rezervujte online na www.airfrance.cz. and murder. If that's not enough, An ensemble cast that includes misfits, thieves and lovers. z

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Brian Kenety “I wanted only one thing – to create a fantastic world,” Karel Zeman, consid- ered a national Czech treasure, once said. “And film gave me the chance.” He re- turned the favor, a hundredfold, pioneer- ing and mastering special effects, , and techniques in the 1940s and 1950s that contemporary film- makers of the genre in the digital age – from Tim Burton to – still find a marvel today. Film Adventurer Karel Zeman, a doc- umentary by Tomáš Hodan celebrating the life and work of this exceptional talent had its world premiere at KVIFF this year. It not only tells his story but answers the question raised time and again during

Zeman’s lifetime: How on Earth did he do Photo: KVIFF Photo: KVIFF that? Karel Zeman was a master of live-action, animation and scenographic sleight of hand. Zeman’s Invention for Destruction is among the most successful Czechoslovak films abroad. “The thing that always amazed me was the sense of scale in his work,” says tastic undersea world in a tale inspired by joins are even when you know everything interview. “But she was under the influ- owner had fortuitously decided to estab- Gilliam, the Monty Python’s Flying his hero ’s novels, including about the shot is impossible, it’s often im- ence of his stepfather, who wanted him to lish a film studio to shoot instructional Circus animator turned film director, in . possible to deconstruct those images become a businessman.” shorts for his workers. an interview for the documentary. “I think Invention, also known as The Fabulous somehow and see how the trick was Zeman did as he was told, and studied After Zeman won a company-wide Zeman’s films didn’t...even need the dia- World of Jules Verne, screened at the done,” she says. business at high school in the central competition for best show-window, logue, to be quite honest. They were told World Fair held that year in Belgium and Adventurer’s producer Ondřej Beránek Bohemian town of Kolín, while staging a filmmaker from Baťa’s studio in Zlín visually, which is what was wonderful, took home the Grand Prix at the Brussels (Punk Film), is also a co-founder of the puppet theatre for local children in his came to film his work; Zeman, who had and I think that’s the key to it. Everybody International Film Festival, impressing Karel Zeman Museum in Prague, which leisure time. “He had devoured Jules been experimenting with animated films in the world can understand it.” the jury with its live-action, animation opened in 2012 and supported the cre- Verne novels as a child and as an adult of homemade puppets, showed them to But few can understand how he did it and scenographic sleight of hand, fore- ation of the documentary, both of which was enthralled by the way small children the filmmaker – , who later in an age before CGI. Hodan’s documen- ground matte and cross-hatching tech- explain the filmmaker’s techniques. “But love puppets and think they are truly co-directed the Oscar-winning Shop on tary, which naturally recounts seminal niques; it delighted audiences, and went even knowing how it’s done, you still alive,” Zemanová says. the High Street. Klos ended up inviting moments in Zeman’s life and career on to become the most successful have to marvel that it was done – as it re- In the 1920s, Zeman, longing for ad- Zeman to work with him. through clips, archival footage, and inter- Czechoslovak film screened abroad, sell- quired quite some dexterity and determi- venture, seized an opportunity to study The Czech filmmaker went on to be- views, also tracks a group of current ani- ing in 70 countries. At one point in New nation,” Howard says. “It’s absolutely advertising at an art school in France, and come director of the studio’s stop-motion mation students who try to recreate some York City alone it was showing in 96 film painstaking work.” would go on to work in a private studio in animation production group in 1945, the of the most famous scenes from his ex- theaters simultaneously each evening. From selling soap Marseilles. It was there that he got his year, in collaboration with his brother tensive filmography. “In all of his films are all these ingen- first big break. From a local cinema, he Bořivoj Zeman, he made A Christmas “The audience will thus be able to see ious tricks that he either pioneered, or was to creating worlds borrowed Felix the Cat shorts and night Dream, his first short film combining an- the sheer amount of work and time that inspired to experiment with by the work Karel Zeman was born in 1910, in after night trained himself in the secrets imated puppets with live-action footage – was required for the special effects at that of George Méliès, the great French film- Ostroměř, a tiny village northeast of of animation – as he worked on a short which debuted in Cannes. And the rest, as time,” notes Hodan; for example, by mak- maker and another hero of his,” says Prague in what was then part of the soap commercial that showcased his new- they say, is history. ing a wooly mammoth model, playing Cerise Howard, Artistic Director of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. After his fa- ly developed skills. “Why do I make movies?” Zeman says with split screens and perspectives to try Czech and Slovak Film Festival of ther died, his mother got remarried – un- In 1936 he returned to his homeland, in the documentary. “I’m looking for ter- to meld live and stop motion action (just Australia, which will have a retrospective happily – to an unexceptional man who by then the independent First ra incognita, a land on which no film- some of the basics tool of the trade that of his work this autumn. pressured her to have young Karel study Czechoslovak Republic, to do his military maker has yet set foot, a planet where no Zeman perfected). “All of Zeman’s trickery done on cam- business though his teachers had long rec- service in a cavalry regiment. For a time, director has planted his flag of conquest, Apart from the documentary, a restored era, with trick perspectives and back pro- ognized his exceptional creativity. he later indulged his wanderlust, travel- a world that exists only in fairy tales.” version of one of Zeman’s most famous jection and having so many layers to “His teachers suggested that his moth- ing though , then on to Italy, feature films will also screen today in the a shot, and very cleverly – seamlessly – er send him to art school because not on- Turkey, , and Morocco, among oth- Film Adventurer Karel Zeman screens to- KVIFF Out of the Past sidebar: incorporating animation in some part of ly could he write quite well but he could er exotic places, before getting a job in day at 10:30am (Thermal Congress Hall). You Invention for Destruction (1958), in the frame but live action in another. And also do illustrations and drawings,” his in the advertising department of the can catch Invention for Destruction tonight at which a submarine crew explores a fan- it’s often very difficult to tell where those daughter Ludmila Zemanová says in an Czechoslovak shoemaker, Baťa – whose 8pm (Thermal Grand Hall). z ON THE TOWN EVENTS

Charleston Staročeská Restaurace KVIFF TALK WITH HARVEY KEITEL Bulharská 1, Tel. 353 230 797, Zahradní 49, Tel. 353 221 836, There will be a Q&A session with American actor and charleston-kv.cz staroceskarestaurace.eu winner of the 2004 Crystal Globe for outstanding Open Mon-Sat 10am-midnight, Sun Open 11am-11pm artistic contribution to world cinema Harvey Keitel noon-midnight Despite its name the Staročeská at the Thermal Hotel’s Vodafone Lounge, on the first If you need a brief respite from the (Old-Czech) restaurant is a relative floor near the terrace at 2.30pm today. Before mak- breakneck pace of the festival take newcomer to the Karlovy Vary dining ing his way to the talk Mr. Keitel will introduce Paolo a right at the new Národní dům cinema scene. It is conveniently located just Sorrentino’s film Youth in the Thermal Grand Hall and make a beeline for Charleston. across the river from the Thermal, (2pm). Sounds of Sinatra are soothing to the making it an excellent choice for soul after the techno thumping of the a quick dash out between screenings. TORINOFILMLAB: beer tents around KVIFF central. This The fare is Czech-International, from English-style pub, reminiscent of beef goulash with bread dumplings for You are invited to the Blue Lounge, Lázně III, today Sherlock Holmes’ living room, is 159 CZK to a huge T-bone steak for from 11am to 12pm for a conversation with Azize a great place to grab a steak (420 CZK) 490 CZK. Tan, director of the Istanbul Film Festival. In an event or lamb cutlets (479 CZK). There’s called Film Festivals at the Mercy of Politics, he will a decent selection of pastas and a range U Švejka revisit the events that shook the IFF last April, when of salads for 120-190 CZK. But what Stará louka 10, Tel. 353 232 276, Turkish filmmakers pulled out their films over a cen- we really like about Charleston is how svejk-kv.cz sorship row. its dessert menu goes beyond the Open 11am-11pm Photo: Petr Horník Titled Shall It Be Forbidden to Forbid? stodgy KV standards to deliver a sug- U Švejka, named after Czech author Charleston is a sweet spot for a light dessert. a TorinoFilmLab talk will be held with documentary ar fix of a lighter kind. Classic crème Jaroslav Hašek’s famous antihero the filmmaker Peter Kerekes about his film project brûlée (89 CZK) really hits the spot Good Soldier Švejk, offers some shady (249 CZK) offers the opportunity to of dumpling and two types of cabbage. Censors, which should inspire lively debate on the and the chocolate profiteroles are respite and good eats at the Pupp end sample a few different Czech smoked It’s quite a feast. It could even be theme of censorship at Blue Lounge, Lázně III today a sight for sore eyes (95 CZK). of town. The Old Bohemian Platter meat specialties along with three types enough for two. (GP) z from 4pm to 5pm. (GP) z DAILIES 1 2 3

1/ The Anthopoid cast and crew (l to r): producer Pete Shilaimon, actor Jamie Dornan, director Sean Ellis, actor Aňa Geislerová, and producer David Ondříček. 2/ Czech cinema legend Iva Janžurová shares a laugh with KVIFF emcee Marek Eben. 3/ Harvey Keitel arrives at the Pupp in style. Photo: KVIFF Photo: Petr Horník Photo: Petr Horník

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