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Download in PDF Format SPECIAL EDITION OF KVIFF’s MAIN MEDIA PARTNER 2 1/7 2017 FREE INSIDE Official Selection: Arrhythmia, Men Don’t Cry English Section, page 2 East of The West: This Year’s Competition (Part I) English Section, page 3 Japanese Master: Tribute to Kenji Mizoguchi English Section, page 4 Photo: Jan Handrejch Photo: Jan Handrejch Casey Affleck says working in new cities and new places keeps him from getting too stale and too boring. A GHOST STORY: STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL CASEY AFFLECK LIKES THE SHARED SENSIBILITY OF WORKING WITH FRIENDS by Veronika Bednářová travel so much and you meet new people what he wants and has a vision going into And when the screenplay is less fully work with the same people over and over always. That makes it sometimes an added it but he’s also very flexible and open to in- formed in a way, what is it about for you, again and the work keeps getting stronger Four close colleagues are behind the challenge to make a new movie because put from anybody from costumes or David really? and better. Time goes by faster and faster – strange and touching non-horror film, you have to develop some sort of rapport or James or me or the other actors. I’ve What the movie was about for me was I’m getting old so fast. It’s really nice to A Ghost Story, which opens in cinemas with people and the shorthand, you gotta never seen him be strict at all. Sometimes not evident when I first read it. When spend time with people you already like this week, following up a successful pre- try to learn what the other person means I wish he were stricter - you give a bunch of David described it to me it just sounded and know. You have some shared interests. miere at Sundance this year: actor Casey and when they want something. ideas to a director and you hope they’re go- like a strange and beautiful experiment that If you find people you work well with you Affleck, writer/director David Lowery and ing to say ‘No that’s bad’ because in your was mostly visual. Like, ‘Oh, you’ll be might as well keep working with them. producers James M. Johnston and Toby And there’s a stronger bond with you heart you know that what you’re saying is wearing a sheet and we’re shooting in one Halbrooks. They will screen the film, guys than just a professional relation- a bad idea. location.’ It was all kind of like what it was Is it different being on the road to pro- which co-stars Rooney Mara, at KVIFF, ship? going to look like and there was some kind mote a film you are personally invested which also follows up a team project with So I get the chance to work with friends Do you have a say in the script devel- of conversation about the relationship be- in rather than, say, a blockbuster? the same players, Ain’t Them Bodies but also I think there’s a shared sensibility opment part? tween me and Rooney. You’re trying to fig- I don’t ever think of a movie as being Saints, which screened here in 2013. The somehow with this group. I like the movies Not really. Let’s say that this movie was ure out if you stay in the house or not. mine. If it belongs to anyone it belongs to team’s next project, Old Man and the Gun that they do and the things that they’ve the most unformed piece of material. the director. Once you’re a part of the with Robert Redford and Elisabeth Moss, done. And I’ve liked everything that I’ve Otherwise, they’re very traditional screen- So do you prefer not to work with peo- movie in any way then you go out and you has just finished filming. gotten to be a part of – not that that was the plays that David gave to me that he’d writ- ple you haven’t formed relationships help to advertise it. There are some most important part, I would say, but it’s ten and he has his own unique voice that is with yet? movies – because of the kind of audience So you’ve formed a stable collabora- a bonus when you have a great experience. on the page and the scenes seem to work I love meeting new people. One of the they’re going for or the kind of money tion, working together regularly. How And then you also feel like the thing that the best when you stick with his voice. things that people who work in movies will that’s being spent to promote them – there does that work for everyone? has been made is something you’re proud But A Ghost Story was something that tell you is that it’s one of the best parts of isn’t a lot of promotion (for the actor) that I like that vocabulary. It’s a stable col- of. I’m always proud when I’m a part of was more experimental in that sense. the job that you go on to new cities and goes into it. So you go to a few film festi- laboration. We’ve done three movies to- something that they’re working on. There was less dialogue and more de- new places and new crews and you learn vals and you go on a talk show and that’s gether and with Toby and James as well, so scription of what this thing is going to be. from other people, the DP, everyone on the all that’s asked of you. And then there are it’s a fairly stable collaboration with all of What’s David Lowery like as a direc- So that was the only time I’ve had any in- crew. It kind of keeps you from getting too other times when the movie is in theaters us. It’s nice to work with friends. You don’t tor? Is he strict? put, really, on what the characters are re- stale or from getting too boring. On the for six months and you still have to go out always get that opportunity because you No, he’s not. He communicates clearly ally saying. other hand I think there are people who there and promote it endlessly. z SEE YOU THERE EXPLAINER FILM CRITIC, WHEN IN DOUBT, TIME TO PASS GUY LODGE VARIETY Fest fanfare, sheer spectacle, free film- ple at one – and pass holders can reserve maker KVIFF Talks and late, late bars are tickets for many screenings via SMS start- One of the reasons I so enjoy Karlovy 78/52 screens today at 9:30pm [Čas almost enough to justify a summer trip to ing at 7am. Vary is that the breadth and range of the Cinema], July 4 at 11pm [Grand Hall] and bustling Karlovy Vary in themselves. Yet The fest pass also means you can claim programming allows me not just to make July 7 at 10pm [Karlovy Vary Municipal some determined cinema geeks still insist any seats still free five minutes before fresh discoveries, but to catch up with in- Theatre] z on seeing actual movies.For this last group a screening starts – which works well triguing titles that I’ve missed elsewhere of stubborn holdouts, navigating the fest when other folk aren’t quick enough to es- on the festival circuit. The film I regret ticketing system is going to be key. cape their round at F Bar (if a ticket hold- not seeing at Sundance this year was One might assume it’s a straightforward er is not in their seat by that time, the fest Alexandre O. Philippe’s 78/52, which process of walking up to a sales booth, al- is entitled to give it away). 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