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ENGLISH SECTION Festival Daily SPECIAL EDITION OF THE OFFICIAL ENGLISH DAILY OF THE 45TH KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Sunday, July 4, 2010 free • page 1 ENG Bilingual program day DIVÁCKÁ CENA / AUDIENCE AWARD Today’s Official Variety Critics’ Choice for tomorrow DENÍKU Selection films Vote for the best film of the 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival! (Czech Section: pages 8, 9, 10) page 2 3 page 4 (Czech Section: page 2) THE LOWDOWN You can slap them in the face Don’t mess with the orange- clad KVIFF security guards this year; they may look like Easyjet Thelma Schoonmaker divulges editing dos and don’ts staff, but The Lowdown saw a group of them toying with an Will Tizard Photo: Jan Handrejch American-style police baton one evening, so behave! And perhaps they need to be vigilant Three-time Oscar winner – everyone and their dog seem Thelma Schoonmaker, at to be at KVIFF this year. But KVIFF to present one dog at least has nothing to a meticulously restored version worry about from security; Pés of her late husband Michael Fešák Okatý (“Mr. Dog, Powell and Eric Pressburger’s Handsome Big-eyes” – a well 1948 masterwork The Red deserved sobriquet) wandered Shoes, says that four decades as up to The Lowdown proudly Martin Scorsese’s editor has sporting a KVIFF pass on his taught her much about the collar. Our sources tell us no importance of using the right less than six hounds of various film techniques at the right shapes and sizes are fully times. accredited. If this seems unusu- I al to you, bear in mind that this You’ve said that Scorsese is a country where people take demands quiet on his film sets their dogs to work, to art school, and will often speak to his and even to nightclubs. actors in a whisper off to the On its travels yesterday, The side when he needs something Lowdown picked up two from them. Why is that so invaluable pieces of advice for important? any wannabe filmmakers from When I talk to film students, Nuummioq directors Torben there are so many egos in the film Bech and Otto Rosing. The business I try and tell them that first, and the catchiest: “Never respect is a very critical part of use your own money.” And the how Marty directs. He has so second? Sometimes the most much respect for the actors – important job of a production that’s very important for film- Legendary American editor Thelma Schoonmaker in Karlovy Vary. assistant is guarding an antique makers to learn. There are so toy monkey. In fact, sometimes I many egos and jealousies… that’s In looking over Raging their faces begin to change and never went down – so when Sugar distorted, backwards, and the last that’s the only job of what we love about The Red Bull, for which you took the they realize this is getting to be Ray pulls back and can’t figure sound you hear in the film, when a production assistant. Shoes because it’s just as much 1980 Oscar for editing, there a life-and-death situation. out why he can’t get him to go the door shuts, there’s a drum And oh, the opening party! about filmmaking as about the are mostly conventional shots In Raging Bull, I think Marty down, Frank said, “Take the sound. Brilliant. All that we’ve come to expect – world of ballet. with the dialogue scenes and must have had a sense that the sound away” …and you hear He would audition five differ- I vast amounts of meat, packed Does that obsession with many longish, uncut takes. intense scenes of the fights would nothing but a little bit of animal ent punches. For the big punches, hallways, and a fitting choice of performance limit what you can Have things changed so much work well with other scenes breathing. we would listen to five different music. Who else but smooth do technically afterwards to fix that you could never make around them more simple. It Then he comes back in for the punches. God knows how he Czech rap/urban/soul group problems? a film that way now? would make them more powerful. kill and the camera ramps up to made them. Most people don’t Navigators could so perfectly I We hate to do looping after- No. Scorsese knows how to use It can be like music, speed and the sound comes roar- even realize it. They’re feeling it, complement the giant white wards because Scorsese says, “I the tools. Not every shot has to be I suppose – calm alternating ing back in – that was Frank’s but they don’t realize it. plastic palm trees with glowing I didn’t spend all that time getting a zoom-in, hand held. Is that right with powerful sections for the idea and we’ve used it a lot since. And that’s what great edit- coconuts? that performance to then go into for that scene? Is it right for that whole to work. And sound is so That idea that silence is more ing is in many cases? When you And out in the garden later a room where a man is standing in line? I show students the scene in important in those fight scenes important. Frank used all these don’t notice it at all? on, looking up at the neo- front of a screen with Goodfellas with Joe Pesci where in Raging Bull, isn’t it? beautiful animal sounds in Sometimes. Sometimes you Baroque façade of the Pupp, we a microphone and try to get the it starts out as a funny scene and Absolutely. Frank Warner, our Raging Bull – sometimes when want people to notice it. For were touchingly reminded of same thing.” But sometimes Ray Liotta says “You’re so sound editor, was a genius. One Jake comes in for the kill it’s an example, in the fights, that’s the how perfect the combination of I need the line – it’s not intelligi- funny,” and then Pesci gets angri- of the most important things he elephant bray. Who would ever kind of editing you want people music and filmmaking can be ble, maybe it was poorly recorded er and angrier – “What’s so funny taught us was to take sound away think of that? Or when he knocks to notice. Mainly you don’t want with Bryan Adams’s moving – and he will not, will not [record about me?” – and he shot it all in at critical moments. In the final Sugar Ray down in the second people to see it, but it’s not a rule 1991 classic (Everything I Do) it in the studio]. That’s why he medium shots because he wanted scene where Sugar Ray defeats fight, it’s a horse shuddering. And that can’t be broken. We some- I Do It For You, still bringing gets such great performances – to see the reaction of the men LaMotta but he can’t make him the very beautiful use of one times like to slap the audience in tears to our eyes 19 years on. I it’s the respect! around him, and Ray Liotta, as go down – because Jake LaMotta drum that he played himself – the face. I EXPLAINER SEE YOU THERE So Karlovy Vary is a spa town, right? Despite the relaxing sounding The history is actually pretty Quinn Saunders descriptor, Karlovy Vary’s reputa- rich, dating back to at least the Director of Cherry. tion as a spa town has been built 1300s, when the first of more than on geothermal oddities and proce- 60 hot springs (ranging from 34 to I’m really looking forward to seeing Snap. I met the dures that have very little to do 73°C) in the area was found to director Carmel Winters on the drive here. She told me with lounging in bubbling water have healing properties. They all about her film and it sounds amazing. It did really well at under the stars with a Chardonnay seem to offer their own advan- Tribeca also. I had some friends who saw it there. The in hand. That would be more typi- tages. thing about it that interests me is that it has an unortho- cal of Napa Valley, California – Some are considered beneficial dox structure and narrative. It tells the story of but their idea of spas is not quite to drink, as long as you use the a kidnapping backwards and uses mixed media. how they’re thought of here. with every manner of ailment obvi- special ceramic pitchers that are I also want to see Submarino. Mainly, I simply want to The official website of this ously don’t mind that things here a Karlovy Vary trademark, with the see what Thomas Vinterberg is doing. We don’t get all his resort (www.karlovyvary.cz), are pretty clinical – or are at least spout in the handle (designed to films in America. They’re hard to get sometimes. I’m describes the city’s twelve famous willing to put up with that help you get the water past the a big fan of The Celebration and I’m just really curious to thermal springs under the thrilling approach, which still dominates teeth so its minerals don't damage see what his next film is. title “History of Balneology in most of the city’s spa facilities. their enamel). Karlovy Vary,” adding, for good Some, it must be said, have Others are thought better for Snap screens today at 6:30pm in the Thermal’s Small measure, that doctors prescribe changed little from their portrayal bathing or for other uses, including Hall and tomorrow at 10am in the Drahomíra Cinema.

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