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INSIDE Eva Zaoralová’s history of the fest English Section, page 2 KVIFF in quotes English Section, page 3 Introducing the Grand Jury English Section, page 4 Today’s program Czech Section, pages 5-8

Photo: Petr Horník

Harvey Keitel sported a Reservoir Dogs look at the Thermal yesterday. KEITEL ON YOUTH & BEING WES’S DOG LOWDOWN BRIAN KENETY, came along, and I said to my new agent, we’ve been friends a long, long time. We There are, but I’d really prefer not to As the final curtain nears for the jubilee of Central Europe’s grandest VERONIKA BEDNÁŘOVÁ John Burnham at ICM, “I’d like that part.” spent many great years together – suffer- talk about them because I can’t. I think it’s And I got it – or rather he got it. ing. But nobody wanted to know us! disrespectful, in a way, if I do, without sprocket opera – as the esteemed In Youth, your character and Michael Did you also choose to work with Wes people seeing the movie... It has to hap- Variety likes to call fests – thoughts Actor’s Studio alum Harvey Keitel Caine’s have been friends for decades. Anderson on Moonrise Kingdom and pen in a conversation we have a drink over turn toward highs and lows of the worked in theater for a decade before In preparing for the role, did you draw The Grand Budapest Hotel ? and lament our woes, celebrate our joys. big anniversary. Many will flipping to landing roles on the silver screen. He has on your... Yes. He’s amongst those extraordinary Had you worked with Jane Fonda? the fest Daily’s much-anticipated been in six films nominated for the Best Let me say that – I always have a diffi- writer-directors. I met Wes when he was Your scene in Youth is so strong... KVIFF in quotes collection of great Picture Oscar – Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, cult time talking about a movie like this a young director... [but] I couldn’t work No, I hadn’t. But I did sort of meet her lines from film biggies, some of Levinson’s Bugsy, Campion’s The Piano, for a few reasons. One, it hasn’t been re- with him at that time; I was doing anoth- once upon a time... I was living in Hell’s which ended up on the cutting room Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Inglourious leased yet, really, just in Italy and it er movie... I met him at a coffee shop in Kitchen, coming home from work, long floor, until now. Basterds, as well as Wes Anderson’s The screened in Cannes... I don’t like to influ- downtown Manhattan where I live and before I was an actor. I was studying act- Other memorable moments will Grand Budapest Hotel. He also won an ence people with my perspective on the then we didn’t work together for another ing and walking up my street – the same remain forever unreported, existing Independent Spirit award for his role in movie. I’d like them to see it fresh, so 20 years or so, until Moonrise Kingdom. street as the Actor’s Studio, on West 44th only in the memories of those who Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant and was I don’t encumber their relationship with Did you know right away you wanted Street. There’s a church there and this heard them and uttered the given the inaugural Rebel Award for his the story Paolo wrote. It’s a very beautiful to work with Quentin Tarantino? beautiful girl looking out a window. nuggets in question. One that must commitment to indie movies. In Paolo story and a complex one, in terms of the I did. A colleague from the Actor’s I looked up at her and smiled. And she be memorialized, however, is a com- Sorrentino’s Youth, he plays a director way we live our lives. There’s plenty to Studio, Lilly Parker, she’s the unsung looked at me and smiled... She was shoot- ment from Dietrich Brüggemann, di- looking to make his swan song, opposite think about when you see it. heroine here, called me and said, “Harvey, ing They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? rector of Heil, who claims his send- his friend Michael Caine, a composer re- You must have such friendships go- I have a screenplay here I know you’re go- You knew it was her? up of skinhead politics makes fusing to perform – even for the Queen. ing back – you and Martin Scorsese ing to like.” And it was Reservoir Dogs. Everybody knew who Jane Fonda was! a unique contribution to world cin- have been friends nearly 50 years. You spoke of Sorrentino’s beautiful Nobody knew who Harvey Keitel was, ex- ema. Were you looking to work with Paolo Well, the lines on my face should an- writing. Did any lines really resonate cept people from my neighborhood in It’s “probably the first film in his- Sorrentino, or did he have you in mind? swer your question. If you live long with you, in terms of looking back on Brooklyn. tory with a gay dog sex scene,” he I’d seen Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo and enough, you keep them – whether good or such a long, rich filmography? What’s your next project? told one ink-stained journo. “It was The Great Beauty [which won a Best bad... Of course I’d like to work with There are only two words I can remem- Wes Anderson just asked me to do the a complicated scene done with CGI,” Foreign Picture Oscar] and I wanted to Marty again. I hope we do. Maybe he’d be ber from Youth: “Action!” and “Stop!” voice of a dog in his next film. he added, with an air of grave con- work with him. Those are two of the most at the top of my list because he was the There must be parallels from your Are you going to take it? fession. “The lower dog’s penis was beautiful movies I’ve ever seen. The script first. We could talk forever about Marty – life and that of your character’s ... 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As the mega pop hit goes, matic works from central and We’ve brought the award-winning “tonight’s the night,” and the east European countries as well Dalibor Matanić and his The High whole town’s abuzz with specula- as the Balkans and Turkey, and Sun straight from Cannes, and it’s tion as to who will walk home the documentary trophies for well worth seeing. In three stories, he anointed as winners of this year’s works under 30 minutes and over talks about the relations between festival awards – the finely bur- 60 minutes have also been pol- Croats and Serbs and shows that the nished 5kg Moser orbs held aloft ished and stashed backstage, power of love overcomes all obstacles. by an elegant metallic female fig- ready for the handoff. Both the evening and the festival ure. The Forum of Independents will be symbolically concluded by the The Grand Prix (the Crystal prize will boost yet another ca- must-see Stop, a new film by Korea’s Globe) will go to the best feature reer, while film buyers will be most celebrated director Kim Ki-duk film – along with a handy $25,000 eyeing the Právo Audience who is a frequent and valued guest of – and a Special Jury Prize (with Award since these tend to predict KVIFF. He says he made it on a shoe- $15,000) will likely go to another that Under KVIFF rules, no one film can successful future sales. string with unknown Japanese actors may be just as good in the minds of the take more than two of the above awards, Another prestigious prize, the Festival and he promises a moving experience. Grand Jury. There are also awards for so don’t bet on a sweep. Two Special President’s Award, will be presented by best director, actor, and actress. Mentions may also be awarded, but the the man himself, Jiří Bartoška, to actress The High Sun screens today at 3:30pm Meanwhile, Richard Gere has already jury would need to say precisely why Iva Janžurová this evening for her con- (Thermal Cinema B). You can also see taken home his Crystal Globe for these films are so special. tribution to Czech cinema. And, finally, Stop tonight at 10pm (Thermal Congress Outstanding Contribution to World The East of the West award will go to a host of non-statutory prizes also go out Hall). (COC) z Cinema. the most luminous of this year’s cine- tonight – let the red carpet roll! (WT) z strana 2 / page 2 FESTIVAL DAILY Saturday, July 11, 2015 KVIFF IN QUOTES EVA ZAORALOVÁ ON THE ‘BEST FESTIVAL EAST OF BERLIN’ I had to lose 20 kilos in a week and ate only lettuce. That’s why I was in a wheelchair – I had no power. So I needed the blood of virgins to live. Udo Kier on going method for Blood for Dracula

As the shooting went along, the sheep got more professional. It was almost like sometimes I would call “Action!” and they would respond. Grímur Hákonarson on working with animals

I really didn’t like the experience. I loved Dennis Hopper, by the way. But one of the line items was Dennis Hopper’s cigar budget. I would have liked to have bought two extra days of shooting instead! George A. Romero on shooting his first big-budget movie Land of the Dead Photo: Jan Handrejch Eva Zaoralová first came to KVIFF as a young journalist in 1970.

You get to the stage when you go, Zbyněk Vlasák here among the journalists. pressure of the organizers to How do you see the posi- “Oh, f**k me. Oh, I’m in this generation I was sharing a room with four award the Soviet film By the tion of the Karlovy Vary now and that’s that generation going on.” The festival’s Artistic complete strangers in the con- Lake instead of Loach and event on the world festival Yeah, you turn around one day and that’s Consultant Eva Zaoralová has joined hotels Horník and threatened to resign from the map now? it. All of a sudden, you’re the parent! been closely connected with Slovan. The bathroom was in jury. Thanks to their courage, As far as the program, or- Ben Mendelsohn the last twenty-two out of its the hall and when you wanted Karlovy Vary can credit itself ganization and audiences are on being cast as Jessa’s dad in Girls fifty editions. Yet she started to take a bath, you had to bor- with discovering a director concerned, we are definitely coming here much earlier as row a key at the reception for who in later years won acco- the best festival east of Berlin. a journalist. So we would be fifteen crowns. Films were lades at Cannes and Berlin. When I started working here hard pressed to find someone screened almost exclusively in When did the backpacker I phoned a production depart- more qualified to write her re- the hall of the Moskva Hotel as phenomenon start? ment in Italy and said I was I have this little sort of thong underwear cently released book The Story the Grandhotel Pupp was In the mid-1990s with the ar- speaking on behalf of Karlovy that rides up my butt cheek. It was like of a Festival. called at that time. rival of Jiří Bartoška and my- Vary, and they said: “Karel a mud wrestling scene. We had this The year 1970 is remem- self at the helm of the festival. who?” This is unimaginable moment...he wanted me nude. Prashant You first came here in bered for the controversy Ironically, we benefited from now and I believe [Festival Nair wanted me very nude for Umrika. 1970. What was it like at that surrounding the awarding of the rivalry with the newly es- President] Jiří Bartoška and Tony Revolori on the adventure time? the Grand Prize to Ken tablished Golden Golem event myself can take some credit for of location shooting in India The festival was held in Loach’s Kes. Was the topic in Prague which for a while de- that. The festival is now being a bad atmosphere; many peo- discussed at the time by jour- prived us of the A category rat- developed by our younger col- ple were forced to leave the in- nalists? ing – because only one festival leagues but they still work dustry after 1968 for political No, I only found out about it in a given country can have within the plan set out by the While we were preparing scenes, he reasons. I had been working many years later from the 1970 that. Thanks to our resistance in two of us. We wanted to pres- would just sit in the car next to us, drink for a very short while in the jury members, the French ac- spite of not knowing whether ent an interesting and good tea and meditate, be on his own, then Film and Time industry maga- tress Marie-José Nat and the we would be able to persevere, quality program but at the come out, do the scene and get into the zine. I didn’t know anything or Polish director Krzysztof we won the hearts of the view- same time not to take ourselves car. There was a very kind of humble, anyone, I was young and new Zanussi. They resisted the ers as well as the media. too seriously. z monk-like demeanor to all of it, which was good for the performance. Oren Moverman on shooting Time Out of Mind with Richard Gere ELLIS SET TO COOK UP WWII DRAMA

Acting is music...When you’re playing Director Sean Ellis was part about it the more I became ob- music, all the great jazz starts with of a delegation at KVIFF that sessed with the experience of a mistake. Someone hits a note that wasn’t presented his new project these two men. I didn’t see it supposed to be there. And you have to do Anthropoid, exploring the dar- as a big grand war epic be- something else to make that note feel ing assassination of senior cause I think the actions of the okay. And that makes something else Nazi Reinhard Heydrich in people in the film are epic and happen [but] you have to be in tune, you Prague in 1942, which will the emotions are epic. I felt have to be vibrating in the same universe. star Jamie Dornan and Cillian that if I could tell the story on Murphy. His film Metro a very small scale in that Richard Gere on getting the vibes right Manila was selected as the sense, that would be the way British entry for the Best to tell the story of the people Foreign Language Film at the actually involved in the Czech in 2014. resistance at that time. It will be up to your madness How did you go about to let you know when you’re What drew you to make choosing the actors for the in the right place. And I mean that a film about this subject? roles of Jan Kubiš and Jozef in the beautiful way. I first saw a documentary Gabčík;? Harvey Keitel about Operation Anthropoid We tried to find two actors on the Stanislavski method in 2001. I’ve a great interest in that could represent Kubiš and all things WWII but I’d never Gabčík realistically... because come across this story and I wanted these two men to feel I just thought it was an in- very human. And Jamie In Europe, basically, all filmmakers make credible tale, very heroic, very Dornan and Cillian Murphy films for five people... commissions decide moving, and I slowly started were both actors who I felt had if my film can be made, five members researching it further. Over a certain sensibility to bring decide [where] my film can be distributed, the space of the last 10-15 this emotion to the screen at which festival it can be screened. years I’ve created quite an which would be a sort of I waited for this moment for 9 years; now archive of materials surround- everyday person that was given a sixth person can watch my movie. ing [Operation] Anthropoid. an extraordinary mission. And Gyula Nemes on finally having And then coming up on my Photo: Jan Handrejch the fact that they are two of the a real audience watch his movie Zero last film I was looking for British director Sean Ellis at the Anthropoid presser yesterday. most talented actors of their something that was similar in generation – to put them to- the sense of an emotional sac- Like I say I’ve been re- chutists. I felt that was the gether in an exciting story like rifice and I thought that the searching it since 2001 and af- journey I wanted to discover this, it felt to me like I’d been sacrifice that Jan Kubiš and ter doing Metro Manila this as an audience member. shopping for the best ingredi- It was a pretty big event! Jozef Gabčík made for their seemed like the thing that I wanted to know what it was ents and I’m ready to go cook- Jamie Dornan when asked country was a similar theme to I wanted to do next so I started like to be Kubiš and Gabčík. ing now. why people are still fascinated what I explored in Metro working with Anthony Frewin I wanted to know what it was with World War II Manila and I was drawn to it. on the script. It took us a long like to stand in front of that The questions above were This is an event from 1942. time to figure out what was the Mercedes and be confronted recorded at a press conference Why make a film about it story to tell. And for me it was with the ultimate act of resist- yesterday by the moderator, now? the story of the two para- ance. The more I thought Veronika Bednářová. z

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FIRST LADY OF CZECH FILM CRITIC’S CHOICE Laurence Boyce, Film Journalist, Screen International, Cineuropa

Inspired by short stories from SHORT CUTS Raymond Carver, this compendi- um of incidents from the lives of Director: Robert Altman people in Los Angeles remains USA, 1993, 187min a towering work from one of the July 11, 6:30pm, KV Theater great American auteurs. It’s a film that revels in those mo- ments in which the intimate and is indeed is made up of “little winner still remains a vital – and the individual are shown to have earthquakes”: both literally and often devastating – piece of seismic importance and that life figuratively. This Golden Lion- work.

This fever dream of a film is a bold GOLD COAST examination of obsession that also shines a light on Europe’s dark Director: Daniel Dencik colonial past. In the 1830s, young Denmark, 2015, 114min Wulff (Jakob Oftebro, in an aston- July 11, 8pm, Drahomíra Cinema ishing performance) goes from Photo: Petr Horník Copenhagen to Danish Guinea to Iva Janžurová presenting Karel Kachyňa’s Coach to Vienna, which made her a star. set up a coffee plantation. But there Combining hazy surrealism with There’s also a great soundtrack he finds dark forces at work that a pointed docu vein, this is an often from David Lynch’s frequent col- Brian Kenety (Kachyňa fell out of favor with the loved Charlie Chaplin and reen- make him question his ethics. beautiful, darkly compelling film. laborator, Angelo Badalamenti. regime for exposing fallacies of acted different films for me that – Star of stage and screen Iva the communist interpretation of as a little girl – I wasn’t allowed to Janžurová will be honored today certain historical events). go and see,” Janžurová says, when The eagerly awaited English-lan- THE LOBSTER with the Festival President’s Janžurová recalls how hard she asked about her gift for comedy. guage debut from the director of Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos Award for her contribution to had to work to prepare for Coach “Our parents laughed, my mother the superlative Dogtooth speaks of Ireland/UK/France/ Greece/ Czech cinematography. A gradu- to Vienna while still performing laughed so hard she cried.” a talent of the highest order. Netherlands, 2015, 118min ate of the Theater Faculty of the on stage. “I put a lot of effort into Janžurová is not only known for Absurdism and harsh reality meet Academy of Performing Arts in the acting, got up at 5am, soaked making others laugh – but for her in this tale set in the future, where July 11, 7pm, Národní dům Prague (DAMU), she spent a year my feet in ice-cold water to hard- laugh itself. She had joined the everyone who is single is forced to at the Liberec Theatre before re- en myself because the shooting cast of Phantom of the Operette, go to “The Hotel.” There they have an animal of their choice. Amongst Lobster is ultimately a harsh cri- turning to capital in 1964, as took place in damp forests,” she a miniseries that aired a year after 45 days to meet a suitable partner. the breathless imagination and tique of a society that has gone a leading member of the says. “In the evenings I had re- the crushing of the Prague Spring If they don’t, they’ll be turned into dark humor that is shown here, The done a route of utter conformity. Vinohrady Theater, where she hearsals in the theater.” reforms. “Thanks to Phantom, spent nearly a quarter century be- Janžurová is also known for her I established the tradition of my fore joining the National Theatre comedic talent – in 1971 she won laugh – that ho-ho-ho,” she says. With two programs of films, this FUTURE FRAMES in 1998. Best Actress at Trieste for You Are “The Russian tanks were al- selection of filmmakers to watch Various directors Along the way, she’s featured in a Widow, Sir, directed by Václav ready here and Phantom was be- out for in the future brings forth Various countries, 2014/15, countless films and TV series, in- Vorlíček. She showed equal ing shown on TV. Viewers told me some truly compelling movies. various lengths One of the highlights is Patrick cluding the director Karel aplomb in Alice Nellis’s 2002 stories like: ‘I was shaving, angry, July 11, 7:30pm/10:30pm, Lázně III Kachyňa’s 1966 classic Coach to dark and absurd road movie Some and then I heard ‘ho-ho-ho’ from Vollrath’s Everything Will Be OK Vienna, a drama in which she stars Secrets, taking home a Czech another apartment and nearly cut (screening at 7:30pm), a tightly as a young village woman who Lion for Best Actress for playing myself because I was laughing.’ constructed piece about a father gether will be much different. frustration, and grief that says seeks revenge against two the matriarch of a dysfunctional Children on their way to school who picks up his daughter only to What follows is a painfully tense more in 30 minutes than many Wehrmacht soldiers that she pre- family that takes to the highway to were doing that laugh outside my reveal that their normal time to- and realistic study of desperation, films manage in two hours. z sented to KVIFF audiences earli- spread the ashes of her not-so-re- window… I thought someone up er this week. cently deceased husband across above wanted me to cheer the na- “It was the festival’s 15th year the country. tion up in those difficult times.” and it was so good that due to the “I often remember how as the political climate it received no youngest kid I played little scenes Iva Janžurová was interviewed award at all,” joked festival emcee with my brothers Láďa and Pavel by the Festival Daily editor-in- Marek Eben when introducing her which they had written. Pavel chief, Veronika Bednárová. z

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THE JURY IS OUT... MY KV Matthieu Darras By Will Tizard Head of Programs, The five-member KVIFF TorinoFilmLab Grand Jury officially disbands www.torinofilmlab.it some time this evening, having closely analyzed each of the 13 What does TFL do? Official Selection films screening TorinoFilmLab aims to sup- this year in search of one that port filmmakers from all over calls out for a Crystal Globe (the the world, predominantly – but Grand Prix). not always – for their first and Jury member Tim League, an second feature films. Our strong American cinema operator and focus is actually storytelling, but distributor who, with his wife we expand on different aspects, founded theater chain Alamo so we don’t only train directors Drafthouse Cinema and the and writers, but also producers, , says the task ap- and what we call audience de- peared daunting this time last signers or story editors. week. Basically, every year, 40 films young Czech filmmakers com- Along with Russian writer-di- are supported, both through the ing to our program, although we rector Angelika Nikonova workshops, but also financially do have two Czech films that are (Twilight Portrait, Welkome in the form of production and going to premiere soon. Home), Icelandic actor-producer distribution awards. It’s a place You’ve been holding other Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (XL, The where we nurture talent. events, too... Secret Life of Walter Mitty), What are you doing in KV? This year we are talking about Celluloid Dreams founder We’re doing what we call an provocative cinema, dealing Hengameh Panahi (Taxi, alumni meeting. Basically, the with censorship, creating de- Bullhead, Funny Games) and idea is to bring participants in bate... One of them is the HBO Europe senior veep for pro- the TorinoFilmLab together in Indonesian filmmaker Edwin, gramming and acquisitions a different context to the one we who’s been talking about deal- Ondřej Zach, he lunched long usually have. We have 60 people ing with the censors in and hard this week, mulling the Photo: KVIFF from all over the world. Indonesia, because he’s making various merits of the film in com- The Karlovy Vary festival’s Grand Jury (left to right): Ondřej Zach, Angelika Nikonova, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Normally, people come to our films that look at Chinese mi- petition. Hengameh Panahi, and Tim League. programs with project feature norities, gay love, and other “My first impression was that films, so we usually have work- taboo topics. We also had the di- the slate of films was incredibly that I’m always looking for: sto- film and have a good sense of ally incredible performances shops that are pretty focused on rector of the Istanbul film festi- diverse – really wildly disparate ry, story, story above all else. telling, saying something, maybe throughout. There were films their films. So the idea of the val, Azize Tan, who talked about types of movies,” says League, Great storytelling, truly engaging not necessarily in the pure linear with strong characters that drove alumni meeting is for them to what happened at her festival “which I initially thought was go- with the characters is very im- storytelling sense. There’s a lot of a lot of our decisions.” meet all their new friends in last April, when competitions ing to be challenging to narrow portant for me and then, in ways that I can get excited about Fest juries are aware of the im- a more relaxed environment were cancelled [as a result of down to a few Special Jury Prizes a more abstract sense, just being an amount of storytelling.” pacts that their decisions can where they can really engage a censorship row]. and the Grand Prix.” surprised. Finding something Some European filmmakers, have on filmmakers’ careers, of with other people without being Seems like TFL and KVIFF But, he adds, “We were able to fresh or original that I haven’t Wim Winders among them, be- course. As for whether any of obsessed by their feature project. are a good fit... come to a pretty good consen- seen a million times before.” lieve that, at least in America, this year’s Official Selection Anything else? It’s a perfect festival for us. sus.” Seeking a strong story isn’t al- there’s a danger of being “story films might make hot properties We have films that were de- We used to have our alumni Lively debate was necessary ways as straight-forward as it obsessed” at the expense of char- for Drafthouse Films, League veloped in the TorinoFilmLab meeting in Angers, which is before that could happen, League sounds, League points out. This acter. But League counters that says, “We’re always looking for that are being screened, which very cinephile, but maybe a bit admits, but says “the debate was “can mean a lot of different this is equally important to this great ones, so it’s one of the nice also happened last year. Now lacking on the industry side. We over bottles of wine, so it was ac- things – it doesn’t have to be just year’s Grand Jury. “Absolutely,” things about film festivals – ex- we’re going to see Wednesday also had it in Venice, which was tually quite pleasant.” a straight narrative story,” he he says. “Some of the films that ploring films we haven’t seen. 4:45, which is a Greek film in very good, but the mix of As for what KVIFF jurors are says. “You could express story stood out the strongest for me I haven’t made any offers yet, the East of the West section that screenings, industry, and re- swayed by in films, he says, “In through the structure of a film – were because of the central per- but I was certainly very struck by was developed in the program in laxed atmosphere here is just general there’s a couple things you could have a very nonlinear formances. There were some re- several.” z 2010. We’d also like to see more perfect. (COC) z ON THE TOWN PRÁVO AUDIENCE AWARD

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