Translating Feelings Into Music
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SPECIAL EDITION OF KVIFF’s MAIN MEDIA PARTNER 1 30/6 2017 FREE INSIDE Official Selection: All about the 12 contenders English Section, page 2 Fest opener: Diagnosing The Big Sick English Section, page 3 New trailer: Josef Somr breaks the ice English Section, page 4 Photo: Petr Hloušek The Crystal Globe winner and Hollywood’s go-to composer for epic tales never knows what will be a smash hit. TRANSLATING FEELINGS INTO MUSIC JAMES NEWTON HOWARD: DIGITAL COMPOSING WORKS BUT ORCHESTRAS ARE THE HOLY GRAIL by Veronika Bednářová something on the piano and say, “this is How does one “write music” for tor and it still can be a movie that just did- Hunger Games, became a global hit. the action, this is where the chariot comes film? n’t work. Then you have to just find How was it composing for her? A soundtrack maestro who has created in and the horses fall down and this is the More often than not I start writing be- something about the movie that you love, Spectacular! Who wouldn’t want to the music for 130 movies, James Newton love scene,” and then the director would fore I’ve seen the movie. I’ve read the that you can attach yourself to because look at Jennifer Lawrence all day? I loved Howard admits it may actually be 132. walk onto the stage and hear it being script, I’ve had conversations with the you have to finish it, you can’t quit. it. I’ve only met her once. I only met her He’s lost count. Among them are such played by a hundred musicians and would director and I get an impression of what Working with a director is a lot like for a minute in a restaurant in Los megahits as Hunger Games, Batman find it entirely unrecognizable and think the colors of the movie might be and a long-term relationship. It’s like a mar- Angeles. I think every composer has to Begins, I Am Legend, Blood Diamond, this isn’t what he thought he was going to what the tone of the movie might be. Is riage. If it’s for better or worse, some- have a crush on the leading lady a little Charlie Wilson’s War, Pretty Woman and get. And then there would be all kinds of it tragic or is it a love story with a posi- times it’s for better and sometimes it’s for bit. If you kind of fall in love with the King Kong. The eight-time Academy problems. So I think the technology is tive end to it? What is the story that worse. leading lady a tiny bit, then you’re going Award nominee will not only accept the a facilitator at the moment. I want to tell? to write beautiful music for her. So I think Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Is it often the case that the biggest that’s what I try and do. Contribution to World Cinema but will Is it easily abused? And then? hits are not what you’d consider your conduct the Czech National Symphony Now you don’t need to be a musician Then I just start improvising, really. most important work? The song from One Fine Day is so in- Orchestra performing his score from to take some samples and connect them I just start writing music before I see the My commercial sensibilities are some- credibly romantic. Where do you al- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in a computer and put a drum machine movie and I record it in a demo form. times way off. Because when I first saw ways find all that emotion? at the opening ceremony tonight. along with it and to an unsophisticated ear Once I get the movie, I take some of these Batman Begins, I thought it was not going I don’t know, I’m such a romantic. I love that can sound very impressive but it ac- demos and I start playing them against the to be a hit. I couldn’t imagine that people women, I love being in love. For a long You say a using a pen gives you hand tually has no content whatsoever. I really movie and some of them work really well would like it because it was so dark and time I think I used to write about love in cramps. Has modern technology love electronic music but the holy grail and some of them don’t. I keep the stuff then of course it was a gigantic hit. It’s a way as if I didn’t have love in my life and changed the way you work? for me is always the orchestra because that works and I kind of go on like a little very true that the things for instance that I imagined what it was like. Now I have Directors now have an expectation that you can’t fake it as an orchestra. You have inchworm. I’ve been nominated for, Academy a great love in my life so now I write about they can hear the entire score in a mock- human beings playing your notes. It’s not Awards, are not necessarily what I think that. But I feel like I have great sympathy up version or in a demo form before they a sample of some other collective that al- Does it ever happen that you com- are my best work. for other people’s feelings. And maybe have to commit to go onto a scoring stage. ready succeeded and you’re then borrow- pose music for a film you don’t like? that is the thing that I’m good at, that I’m For me that’s very helpful. Back in the old ing and using. I have faith that good mu- Yes. You can start off with a great The song “The Hanging Tree,” per- able to understand what people are feeling days, perhaps a composer would play sic will prevail. script, with a great cast, with great direc- formed by Jennifer Lawrence in The and translate it into music. z SEE YOU THERE EXPLAINER KVIFF ARTISTIC KAREL OCH DIRECTOR OPENING NIGHT GOES HORRORSHOW The 52nd KVIFF This year marks I´ve been literally obsessed with the Liberami screens today at 1pm (Congress will be launched with another significant Italian documentary Liberami ever Hall), July 1 at 7:30pm (Husovka Theatre), a gala opening cere- benchmark, as it will since I watched its unfinished version July 4 at 1pm (Národní dům), and July 7 at mony in which the be the first time in the more than a year ago. This extraordi- 3:30pm (Small Hall). A Man of Integrity design, scenography ceremony’s history nary depiction of the world of exor- shows today at 4pm (Pupp), July 1 at and choreography it has featured the cism in contemporary Sicily is very in- 4:30pm (Lázně III), July 5 at 4pm (Pupp), will once again be accompaniment of tense, yet not without humor. Do not and July 7 at 12:30pm (Čas). z put together by team the Karlovy Vary leave before the final credits, unless of brothers Michal Symphony Orchestra. you do not want to hear Ryan and Šimon Caban. Caban cited the Gosling´s band performing the excep- For a festival devoted vast improvement of tional track “Lose Your Soul.” One of to film it is only nat- the orchestra since my favorite films from Cannes is ural that the opening 2015 under the A Man of Integrity by a renowned ceremony be particu- leadership of new Iranian master Mohammad Rasoulof, larly cinematic. chief conductor Jan who delivers his original take on the Michal Caban says Kučera, the reason classical story of a man against the cor- that they wanted to use the horror genre phere of a silent film. "But the most im- they are now part of the program. So rupt system, visually simply breathtak- for the first time and that they were portant thing is that it's a good show," go get your seat and get ready for a true ing. Miss at your own peril! (WT) aiming for the strong visual atmos- he says. cinematic spectacle. (MS) z strana 2 / page 2 FESTIVAL DAILY Friday, June 30, 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION MAIN COMPETITION: NEW VOICES AND MORE DEBUTS by Will Tizard needs some aspect that distin- guishes it and for us it’s always The main event at KVIFF, the been Central/Eastern European Official Selection race—perhaps countries. At the end of the day because it’s the most closely I’m really happy that the produc- watched section, often with the ers and filmmakers want to come power to establish a budding film- – or come back – to Karlovy Vary maker’s career—is composed of because they know most of the in- 12 films that reflect a host of fac- dustry and the journalists, along tors. with the audience, are coming to Established festivals feel an ob- see films from just this area.” ligation to help audiences discov- Other films capturing a strong er new talent but also to give them sense of place this year are: access to veteran directors whose Russia’s entry, Arrhythmia by work is already well-loved by au- Boris Khlebnikov; Romania’s diences, says KVIFF Artistic Breaking News by Iulia Rugină; Director Karel Och. the Israel-Germany co-production The number of films submitted, The Cakemaker by Ofir Raul traditionally in the hundreds, is Graizer; the Slovakia-Ukraine growing by leaps and bounds, he film The Line by Peter Bebjak; adds, with new directors’ work and Turkish entry More by Onur making up an ever-increasing Saylak.