Wild at Heart Changed My Life Lowdown

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INSIDE John Michael McDonagh gets off his ass English Section, page 2

Introducing the KVIFF Grand Jury English Section, page 3

Interview with Sherry Lansing English Section, page 4

Today’s program Czech Section, pages 5-8

Photo: Jan Handrejch Laura Dern says working on Jurassic Park felt more like an indie movie than an international blockbuster. WILD AT HEART CHANGED MY LIFE LOWDOWN

It’s axiomatic in the film biz that two LAURA DERN HAS COME A LONG WAY FROM BEING ‘THE GIRL NEXT DOOR’ IN BLUE VELVET or more versions of the same idea, often popping up at the same time, Veronika Bednářová way, but it really inspires me. I’ve never are both so iconic. Which is your fa- it – even if it’s one scene, I’ll make him let makes life interesting for sales folk. felt competitive, or jealous of others. But vorite? me be in it. One of the first major international “The whole world’s wild at heart and I certainly have seen others doing things I love both so much... And I know Blue And how about Jurassic Park (1993), cable TV productions to move into weird on top.” Anyone who has heard I wish I could be doing... It takes a lot of Velvet is so iconic because it’s the first which was such a different kind of film? Prague’s Barrandov Studios after years Laura Dern say that iconic line in David work and humility and discipline to not be time people saw David’s work in this way When you think about Jurassic Park of drought, thanks in large part to the Lynch’s cult classic is unlikely to forget it. competitive. Or to be [consumed] by feel- – even if they saw Eraserhead (1977). now, it’s this big, formulaic movie, in passage of 20 percent cash-back pro- They’ll have a chance to hear it again ing empty, feeling the void... That was very different – you know, to see a way. But then it was like an independ- duction incentives, was the costume tonight – Wild at Heart screens at the Do you have a dream role? David’s world of the dark and the light. ent movie, because it was the first CGI drama Borgia, starring formidable Outdoor Cinema as the last movie at KV- You know, I already have. I’ve been And Blue Velvet was so symbolic in that movie. So Steven [Spielberg] was a pio- tough-guy actor John Doman of The IFF. The lady herself is here to present it. ridiculously lucky. I really have... And way. But Wild at Heart changed my life. neer, setting out to do something no one Wire, Company Men and Mystic River. I feel so lucky that I’ve had small roles in I was becoming a woman; it was this very had. It really felt like independent cinema, That was obviously great news – the You have worked with your mother film that mean as much to me as the lead sexual role. [Three] years before, he let me working with this madman, this crazy ge- only catch was that Hungary was in [Diane Ladd]. Do you want to work in the film. So I’ve also had the experience play the “girl next door,” and now he was nius who was going to have dinosaurs run- the midst of its own version of the mi- with your father [Bruce Dern]? of what it means to be a member of having me play the opposite. His courage ning next to us – but they weren’t there – ni-series, starring Jeremy Irons, called Desperately. We’ve been trying for a movie. I did the HBO film Recount to let me be something so different really and working new forms of cameras and The Borgias. Thus, the Borgia promo years... you know, the right thing just nev- (2008), and I played [Florida’s] Secretary shaped how I would always be thought of with Industrial Light and Magic... team found itself endlessly reminding er happened. But now we have a couple of of State Katherine Harris, who was a very in different ways by different people. And [Josh Boone’s] The Fault in Our Stars people to use the singular of the noto- different ideas people are working on. You iconic – unfortunately iconic – figure in that was very lucky for me. opened here in June. How was it to play rious Renaissance dynasty name. know, it’s a great dream of mine. And on American politics. She was insane, radi- Did you know they were going to be the role of a mother with a sick child? The mistake is so easy to make that the set of Nebraska [Alexander Payne’s cal, and complicated to play. That was as so big when shooting those movies? Well, most of all, I loved the opportuni- even Eric Welbers of the Czech pro- 2013 comedy-drama road film co-starring great an opportunity as a starring role in, No. David had made The Elephant Man ty of being part of a movie that has raised duction’s distributor, Beta Film, at one Bruce Dern] I came for a couple of weeks, you know, Alexander’s Citizen Ruth (1980), which was so gorgeous and ex- a lot of awareness and money for child- point called it The Borgias during a TV just to be with him and Alexander, watch (1996) or David Lynch’s movies. I just did traordinary, and so I felt it was important, hood cancer research. In America, only panel presentation yesterday. One them work together, which was very beau- this film with [Dallas Buyers Club direc- but I didn’t know it’d be successful – it three percent of government funding to thing everyone had clear though: cre- tiful. But I’m praying that very soon I’ll tor] Jean-Marc Vallée, and it’s a small but was pretty crazy, so it’s hard to know how support cancer research goes to childhood ating such gorgeous hits in this region get to act with him. perfect role for me at this moment in my people will respond... I saw him on cancer. It’s insane. So hopefully the movie costs about a third of what they would You’ve said he wasn’t overly compet- life – to play this mother who loves freely Saturday, and he was painting and making puts more light and focus on that. in Western Europe. There won’t be any itive, that he’s very humble. Did that in- and purely was beautiful for me. music, but also writing. So I believe he is slowdown of Crystal Globe contenders spire you? Are you the same way? Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) and Wild preparing [a new film]... I’m sure it will Wild at Heart screens tonight at 11pm at from this part of the world anytime Well, I don’t know if I have it the same at Heart (1990) and your roles in them be brilliant and crazy. Hopefully, I’ll be in the Outdoor Cinema. z soon, then. z SEE YOU THERE EXPLAINER

JIŘÍ BARTOŠKA KVIFF PRESIDENT ALL EYES ARE ON THE PRIZE Official Selection directors and their the big screen, behind the camera, or I’d love to recommend the Icelandic Of Horses and Men screens today at producers are vying for the chance to behind the scenes. This year’s prizes for film Of Horses and Men, which is the 12:30pm in the Thermal Small Hall. You can take home a Czech model tonight. The Outstanding Artistic Contribution to movie that all of the KVIFF staff saw at also see Life Itself today at 6:30pm in the iconic leggy nymphet of the Crystal World Cinema went to Hollywood ac- a screening two days before the festival Čas Cinema. z Globe award was inspired by the shape- tor/director Mel Gibson, whose epic started. These staff screenings are a very ly Ema Černáková, a Miss Czech historical drama Braveheart won five nice KVIFF tradition, and through such Republic finalist, whose statuesque Oscars and inspired a surge of Scottish movies we all kind of get in the right physique (au naturel and forever pride, and William Friedkin, who took mood for the festival. This year, it was an young, as captured in 2001 by sculptor home an Academy Award for The overwhelming experience and the film Martin Krejzlík) holds aloft the orb Exorcist, which has been scaring the was very funny, so I believe it’s a nice atop the festival award. bejesus out of us for decades. movie to end the festival as well. Many an art-deco style statuette bear- Also taking home statuettes (but sil- I also wouldn’t miss the documentary ing her likeness will be bestowed at the Best Film (chosen from 12 Official ver-plated not dipped in gold like the on the film critic Roger Ebert, called Life KVIFF closing ceremony tonight. All Selection pics reviewed in this daily) Crystal Globes) will be winners of the Itself. Ebert, who died last year, was are sand-cast in bronze by master and come with a $25,000 prize to be Special Jury Prize, the awards for best a great friend of the Karlovy Vary film Czech craftsman Miloš Vacek, and fea- shared between the winning entry’s director, actor, actress, best film in the festival. He sat on the KVIFF Grand Jury ture a Moser crystal ball shaped producer and director. East of the West sidebar, and for the in 2002 and everyone remembers him by renowned glassmaker Radek KVIFF awards special Crystal Audience Award. Non-statutory awards fondly. He made us all laugh, which was Vachoušek. But only a handful are plat- Globes to those who have made an in- include two for Best Documentary Film a unique quality for such an esteemed ed in gold – the “official” Crystal delible mark on the silver screen, (for one of 30 minutes or less and one film critic. (COC) Globes. The Grand Prix is reserved for whether from the director’s chair, on of greater length). (BK) strana 2 / page 2 FESTIVAL DAILY Saturday, July 12, 2014 KVIFF QUOTES MCDONAGH GETS OFF HIS ASS

I was extremely arrogant Iva Přivřelová at one time but, you know, that’s true of so many filmmakers. Writer-director John Michael You have to be arrogant. McDonagh was in Karlovy Vary this William Friedkin on the week to present his second feature inherent vanity in pushing others Calvary, a strikingly original whodunnit to read your scripts about an Irish priest facing down a death and see your films threat from a child abuse victim hell-bent on revenge. Like his first feature, The Guard, the film stars Brendan Gleeson whose powerful central performance has To tell you the truth, I never gave a shit already been garnering critical plaudits. about fashion... And fashion people love that. At a young age I was courted by You started as a screenwriter. At fashion people and I would just tell them what point did you decide to become to f*** off, you know? And then they a director? loved it even more. I had a really bad experience on Michael Pitt , on his reluctance a movie called Ned Kelly, which I wrote to work the runway the screenplay for. And I thought, instead (though grateful for the money) of criticizing the director all the time, maybe I should try and make a movie I think I posted a couple of tweets myself and see how difficult it is – or how saying, “One day this little fat girl from easy it is, because I think too many Arizona’s going to get an 8mm camera screenwriters are always complaining and she’s going to shoot her own about how their movies turn out and they movie that’s going to kill the should really, as we say in England, “Get Photo: Jan Handrejch professionalism of cinema.” off your ass and do it yourself.” John Michael McDonagh says it’s far easier to direct if you approach the job with humor. And was it more difficult or easier Asia Argento, on the power than you thought? One of the things you have in com- ter, who plays his daughter, and when of the internet and social media It’s difficult, but it’s easier if you treat mon with your brother is that you both to promote indie film I look at the film now, they’re some of my people with respect and you try and get like working with Brendan Gleeson… favorite scenes. The scenes that he pushed along with people and you’re not ego How did you meet him? for, that he wanted to be in it to make it driven and humorless…It’s far easier to I met Brendan at Sundance when they a more emotional film. The real producers are employees of TV make a movie if you take that attitude. were showing [Martin’s film] In Bruges. Calvary is supposed to be the second or media set who read a script and they And it was always film you were in- We got drunk together that night. We did- of a trilogy of films you plan to make say, ‘Oh, no, no – this is no good. At terested in? You didn’t want to try the- n’t really become friends then, but obvi- with Brendan Gleeson. Can you tell us 8:30 in the evening people are eating...’ ater like your brother Martin? ously I knew him, so when I sent him the a bit about the third movie – The Lame So practically the author is castrated. I hate theater. But I love novels, so script for The Guard he read it more Shall Enter First? Franco Nero on the shift of film I tried to be a novelist first. I wrote five quickly than he would if I was an un- I kind of have a lot of ideas for it. producing talent to television, really bad novels. And, eventually, known filmmaker, because we knew each I know who the main characters are. and their declining power I thought, what else? What other form of other. So it was a good relationship from I know the basic plot; it’s all in my head. writing can I do? And I always loved the start and we became friends quite It’s about a paraplegic who’s very aggres- movies. I’ve always watched movies, so quickly. And we trust each other a lot. He sive. He hates people who can walk, and I just got a book and I saw the format of gives very good notes. I sent him a cut of he solves the murder of one of his friends. People don’t know that about Sly. a screenplay and just started writing The Guard and Calvary. Calvary was And I want the murder mystery to be more He’s actually, when it comes to literature screenplays. But novels I would get no re- written for him so he would see very ear- complicated – to be very complicated. So and painting and stuff, he’s a very well sponse for; they’d just be rejected. With ly drafts of the script and he helped a lot. I’m trying to figure that out. I’ve got vir- educated, cultured man. He’s a lot my first screenplay I got an immediate re- He likes films that are, let’s say, a bit tually everything else in my mind. smarter than he lets on. sponse and I thought, “Okay, well I’m more emotional. I tend to be a bit more Mel Gibson , on working on a bad novelist, but maybe I’m a good intellectual and detached. So he asked for Calvary screens tonight at 10:30pm in the The Expendables 3 with Sylvester screenwriter.” more scenes with Kelly Reilly’s charac- Lázně III Cinema z Stallone (and Arnold Schwarzenegger)

I’m a Londoner. I’m not really French, TV PROJECTS SHOW EASTERN PROMISE not really English, not really Algerian. I’m caught between three. I had three Will Tizard teams in the world cup and they’re all f**king out. You’d have thought I had Focusing on the small screen, which good odds. Germany knocked out two has vast global audiences, is increasingly of my teams – heartbreaking. critical for filmmakers – as public broad- Yann Demange, on identity casters in Prague, Bratislava and Warsaw and football know all too well, having watched the rise and export of original Scandinavian series and appetites for European projects in the US, the UK and beyond. To a degree, budget is a state As the BBC buys up mini-series such of mind... If you have more money and you get a bigger as Germany’s ambitious and controversial actor, sometimes that can Generation War, and Netflix purchases ruin the movie. programs like Prague-shot Borgia, broad- Steve Golin, casters in Central and Eastern Europe on spending the right don’t plan to be left behind. They trum- amount to make a film, peted their commitments to more original not the most you can drama series and possibly other genres yesterday in the suitably imperious Grandhotel Pupp’s La Belle Epoque My films were banned in India Restaurant.

for seven years by political censorship, “TV and movies are getting closer,” Photo: Jan Handrejch moral censorship, because my first said Petr Dvořák, general director of Yesterday’s KVIFF TV Panel looked at case studies of successful projects. film was based on a band, a rock band Czech TV, the largest domestic co-pro- that smoked up weed and there was ducer in both film and television. And, he Norwegian viewers, Mosli said, and has A miniseries like Germany’s a masturbation shot, so they were added for emphasis, “We are trying to now sold in 17 countries and will be re- Generation War would never have been really offended by that. cross the borders of the Czech Republic.” made in a US version. thought possible in Germany ten years Anurag Kashyap, filmmaker, The model is already working in other Normally, Norwegian dramas shoot in ago, he pointed out. Not only that, the tide on censorship in India places in Europe, with Norway providing Prague or Hungary, Mosli said, but be- used to run the other way, with only US an inspiring example of what’s possible. cause Mammon was a public TV produc- series being bought around Europe. Now, Public broadcaster NRK has just com- tion, it had to be locally shot – not a cheap it’s all about European original produc- Everything that is created à la thèse is pleted the first season of its first six-part proposition, nor an easy way to work, tions – both on the continent and beyond wrong. It has nothing to do with art. thriller miniseries, Mammon, and the since Norway limits shoot days to eight – with at least seven outlets possible in It is always necessary to trust your slick 4.3 million-euro political intrigue hours, about half of a typical shoot day in the US. unconscious, which provides has already been snatched up by sales the Czech Republic. Jan Maxa, Czech TV’s development di- the hidden but genuine contents that powerhouse Beta Film, who has placed it Eric Welbers, director of Beta Film, rector of programs and formats, said the are deep and experienced. with HBO. said the series is part of a rising tide of Scandinavian successes offer useful les- Jan Švankmajer, on the Series director Cecilie Mosli recounted original productions created by broad- sons for possible joint projects by Czech, dangers of sticking to a script how the project, built up over nine years, casters in Europe that is succeeding with Slovak and Polish public broadcasters. or original concept at all costs was intended to bring Norway up to international audiences. He pointed to the He cited recent original hit productions speed following the international suc- ambitious German miniseries Generation such as Cold War thriller Killing cesses of rivals Sweden and Denmark in War, which follows the fates of five a Comrade and crime series The Lens as I think the difference between us is my minting original Nordic noir miniseries young people throughout the rise and fall proof of the station’s commitment to this brother is – if I was a multi-millionaire – that have traveled around the globe, such of the Third Reich, as another example. new direction. I’d be lying on a beach. I wouldn’t be as The Killing or the Henning Mankell The BBC and Canal + have bought the “I think there’s a vast array of possibil- making movies. Martin actually enjoys adaptation Wallander. show, and other such projects, like the ities,” said US producer Cary Brokaw, writing, so he’d probably still be writing. Although the series made waves at Italian miniseries Gomorra by Stefano a veteran of award-winning film and tel- I wouldn’t. I don’t enjoy doing anything! home by suggesting that one of Europe’s Sollima, based on the hit film and book, evision with experience in production, de- John Michael McDonagh model democracies might be able to hide are selling well. Typical buyers are HBO, velopment, marketing, and distribution on his work ethic and brother Martin a corrupt network of billionaires who can ORF, ARTE, YLE, Fox and Netflix, and projects such as Angels in America (BK) control the media, it still drew 1.3 million Welbers said. and Closer on his CV. z

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KVIFF’S ‘COINCIDENTAL’ JURY MY KV Marek Hovorka Director, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival www.dokument-festival.cz So, what have you been doing at KVIFF? I was moderating the jubilee 10th edition of the Docu Talents from the East presentation of 12 upcoming projects from Eastern Europe with my colleague Andrea Slováková. I’m really happy many professionals found our selection very strong and useful. What were the highlights of the mentary film tradition. Big attention presentation? was given, for example, to both Just one year after winning the Polish portraits – of reporter Riszard documentary competition here at KV Kapuścińsky and controversial film

Photo: Jan Handrejch with his feature doc Pipeline the director Walerian Borowczyk. The jury is in: (From left to right) Phedon Papamichael, Viktor Tauš, Mira Fornay, Kjartan Sveinsson and Luis Miñarro. Russian director Vitaly Mansky came Docu Talents from the East has back again. His new documentary been held at KVIFF since 2005. Will Tizard Phedon Papamichael, the a lot – in the Official Selection cial competition,” he says. “I takes place in North Korea where Have there been some success sto- Oscar-nominated cinematogra- of 12 films, we saw maybe five have a big advantage here in he’s had unique access to daily life. ries already? The KVIFF Grand Jury is pher for Alexander Payne’s or six films which are interest- that I can see many films that Other filmmakers brought strong Yes, many of them premiered at what old comics refer to as Nebraska; Kjartan Sveinsson, ing and maybe two or three of I missed in Cannes and in other projects from Armenia, Estonia, the most important festivals. Rabbit a tough room. It’s not that the the Icelandic founding member these six will be awarded be- festivals. Ben Rivers [and so Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, and the à la Berlin was nominated for an five assembled professionals of Sigur Rós; and Viktor Tauš, cause it’s what they deserve.” on].” Czech Republic. If I were to mention Oscar. Blind Loves had its premiere don’t love and support risk-tak- the prolific Czech indie director Luckily, this year’s jury man- Miñarro maintains that he another project, it’s The Serbian it Cannes, Matchmaking Mayor won ing film, as jury president Luis and producer of Honeymoon, for aged to avoid major battles dur- hasn’t minded bringing his crit- Lawyer about the personal attorney an award at Berlinale, and Fortress Miñarro, explains. It’s just that which Jan Hřebejk won best di- ing its debates, Miñarro says. ical facilities to Karlovy Vary at of Radovan Karadžić, which doesn’t was the only documentary nominat- they expect an awful lot from rector at last year’s KVIFF. “We are quite, I would say, ‘co- all, in fact. “There’s an intense offer a black-and-white perspective, ed for the Lux Prize last year. I could the film they will bestow So what does it take to get the incidental’ in a way – even be- focus on cinema and I should but personal reflection and long-time go on, because, in the past ten years, a Crystal Globe upon tonight. nod from such a select group? ing from different countries and appreciate that as a guest,” he observation. we have presented more than 110 The Barcelona native, whose “What interests me is to stress different professional roots. We says. “And I am always amazed Were there any tangible out- East European documentaries – and company Eddie Saeta has pro- the artistic qualities of a film,” haven’t coincided on everything, by the big support from the au- comes to this year’s event? many rank among the best East duced 30 features winning 80 says Miñarro, “both in language so that’s good.” dience. When my film was All the filmmakers met experts European films of the past decade. international awards, made 2010 and in what it’s proposing on the And even with the weight of screening here the room was ab- from distribution and sales compa- What else have you been doing KVIFF winner The Mosquito humanistic side.” choosing best film, director, per- solutely full. I was coming from nies, but also many festival represen- at KV? Net, a host of impressive docu- But, Miñarro admits, it’s dif- formers, script and other cate- other festivals, like Munich and tatives; e.g. from Berlinale or San Because I have been attending KV- mentaries, and the feature ficult to stand out from the gories, he says, jurors managed Marseilles, where the room was Sebastian, various broadcasters, and IFF since 1997, I have some must-dos Falling Star, screening this year crowd. “There are many films in to slip away from work for half full. And here you always journalists. I’m sure all the present- in KV. One is to get pancakes from at KVIFF. the festivals these days and tempting distractions. have a big anticipation of what ed films will be soon very visible and the nonstop place [Dobrotky] and the And his co-jurors are just as sometimes it’s hard to find “What’s interesting in a festi- you are presenting. We were traveling all over the world – from second is to visit a second-hand book demanding: Mira Fornay, the a film that will really impress val like Karlovy Vary is you speculating about giving a prize Jihlava and Sundance to Cannes and store. They both have a unique repu- Slovak writer-director behind you,” he says. “We have a cou- have the chance to see many in- to the audience. It’s really some- KVIFF – because they represent the tation and complete my cinephile per- My Dog Killer and Foxes; ple of films here that we like teresting films besides the offi- thing out of the ordinary.” z diversity of the East European docu- sonality. (COC)

Paul Katzenberger CRITIC’S CHOICE Film Journalist, Süddeutsche.de/Süddeutsche Zeitung

Australian duo Michael Cody RUIN and Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s Directors: Michael Cody, movie is not for a mass audience, Amiel Courtin-Wilson but this meditative road-trip love Australia, Cambodia, 2013, 90 min story will linger long in the mind of anyone open to getting a sense July 12, 8.30am, Congress Hall of Cambodia. Sang Malen and Ros Mony play two misfits er tired of being treated disre- issues faced by Cambodia’s un- thrown together in Phnom Penh. spectfully. With a powerful score derclass. Winner of a Special She’s a prostitute fleeing her vi- and lavish dreamlike and sym- Orizzonti Jury Prize in Venice in olent pimp; he’s a factory work- bolic imagery, Ruin lays bare the 2013.

Iranian-Austrian Sudabeh MACONDO Mortezai’s feature-debut, which screened at this year’s Berlinale, Director: Sudabeh Mortezai is named after a Vienna settle- Austria, 2014, 98 min ment that has mapped the wars July 12, 4.30pm, Lázně III of past decades and is home to 3,000 asylum seekers. One of them is 11-year-old Chechen when an old army friend of his Ramasam slowly come to terms Ramasam, whose father was dad suddenly shows up. Issues with his situation. This is a film killed fighting the Russians. His such as responsibility and hu- full of subtle tones that searches world is turned upside down man dignity are explored as for the truth beyond stereotypes. eǡ e zǧ A 2 a ǡ Andrey Zvyagintsev’s latest fea- LEVIATHAN ture offers a scathing description THE AUGUSTINE PRAGUE, õā³æ of corruption and intimidation in Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev nacházející se v historickém centru • Òýͤͤͣ͝ contemporary Russia. Set in Russia, 2014, 141 min Prahy, je tím vaším opravdovým hotelem. • gurmánskou kuchyni a cinemascope panorama on the July 12, 6.30pm, KV Theater Kola Peninsula, his story starts off • letní terasu with a little guy taking on the æ͡³«ýÀÀ • «±æ± government – a dispute that soon lent domestic drama Elena, the prising turns without diluting the rovnováhu mezi historií a pohodlím. evolves into a battle with one of director revisits the theme of au- main matter of concern. Indeed ā±ā Rádi pro vás zajistíme the world’s most abusive and re- thority and rebellion found in his its many twists give it a wonder- ±³Ƥ±Ǥ • lentless regimes. After the excel- earlier work. His story takes sur- ful symmetry. • privátní akce v zahradách • konference Andrea Sedláčková’s feature is FAIR PLAY Hlavní partnerský hotel • Spa relaxaci ͥ͠Ǥ«ÀÀ an important contribution to the Director: Andrea Sedláčková filmového festivalu Karlovy Vary Czech Republic’s efforts to deal Czech Republic, Slovakia, with its troubled communist Germany, 2014, 100 min THE AUGUSTINE PRAGUE past. It tells the story of 18-year- old Anna (Judit Bárdos), an elite July 12, 9am, Drahomíra Cinema Letenská 12/33 • 118 00 Prague 1 sprinter hoping to compete at the Tel. 266 112 233 1984 Olympic Games who is as- Sedláčková does a very good job insightful drama about how ba- [email protected] signed a course of performance- of showing what the dehumaniz- sic values like truth, trust, and www.augustinehotel.com enhancing anabolic steroids that ing regime did to its own people self-respect were endangered by she has to take against her will. and most promising athletes. An a perverted system. z

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Veronika Bednářová to call everyone and tell them if a movie failed? Before devoting herself primari- Yes. I used to call Sunday morn- ly to charitable activities focusing ing, after the film; you knew on on cancer research and education, Friday and Saturday night. And Sherry Lansing was one of I used to call the filmmakers. Hollywood’s major players. In the There’re lots of those calls. I used 1970s, she very famously turned to call and tell them that we had let her back on acting to work as them down. Because I don’t be- a producer – eventually becoming lieve the first weekend is the head producer of 20th Century movie’s fault. I believe that it was Fox and later CEO of Paramount the marketing or that we had done Pictures. Her name is associated something wrong. Now, today, it’s with some of Hollywood’s greatest different because of Twitter and commercial and critical success- everything. On Friday night every- es, including Fatal Attraction, one knows if it’s not a good movie, Braveheart, and Titanic. She was but when I was in the business, in KV this week with her director that’s how it changed; you had husband William Friedkin, who re- a whole weekend. The marketing ceived a Crystal Globe award for could get people in. And I used to his contribution to world cinema. feel terrible, because I had been a producer and I could identify You went from being an ac- with how they felt. And you have tress to being a prominent pro- to have resilience to pick yourself ducer. How did that come up. And then – and now I can hear about? How did you learn to my husband – if you’re lucky, work on the other side of the sometimes what failed when it first camera? came out, has grown to great suc- On the go... When I came to cess with time. And that’s what Hollywood, there were hardly any he’s seeing with Sorcerer, my fa- schools to study film. You could vorite movie... when I didn’t know study theater, but you couldn’t him and I was thirty years old. It study film, so I had gotten a de- was my favorite movie and I didn’t

gree at Northwestern. I studied Photo: Kviff know him at all, but it wasn’t theater a little. I studied math and Sherry Lansing and her husband William Friedkin have been celebrating their anniversary in Karlovy Vary. a commercial or a critical success got an English-teaching creden- at the time. But today it is. So that tial. And I thought I wanted to be a background in English, and I just loved it. And so I could syn- ed to make. It was passed on by something like “Ex-Model happens to people. an actress because that’s the only I was very qualified to be a script opsize the script, I could give every studio at least twice. Becomes Head of Fox.” How did you meet? thing I understood; it was the on- reader, so I read scripts for five a critical opinion, and then I just And Michael Douglas? Today that doesn’t happen, so We met the night of the ly way out. And I started acting dollars an hour. I could synopsize kind of worked my way up and, He was there from very early look how far we’ve come. Yes, of Academy Awards 23 years ago. and I was terrible at it. I was un- them. I could give a critical opin- again, this English background on, and he hung in. We developed course, you [get things like] “ex- We’re celebrating our anniversary comfortable and nervous and anx- ion because I had that back- really helped me. So my educa- the script and then showed it to model, ex-actress becomes head here in this magical city. I was ious and not really enjoying it. So, ground, and so it wasn’t that hard. tion – luckily – was very impor- him. So I learned that the ones that of 20th Century Fox.” They ig- a huge admirer of his films but while I was on the sets of the So you read a lot of scripts be- tant. were the easiest to get made were nored everything that you had had never met him. I looked movies and television shows that fore… As a producer, you’re famous often the least successful. And the done – and I ignored that head- across at an Academy Awards par- I did over a period of about two or Yes, that was my job. I saw for standing by Fatal Attraction. ones that were the hardest to get line. You just put your head down ty and saw this cute man and said three years, I saw what everybody movies every weekend. I saw How many directors had re- made were often the most suc- and the salvation is to concentrate hello. And we’d never met, but we was doing and I got very interest- everything that came out every fused to make it? cessful. on your work. Concentrate on the both knew of each other – and we ed in it – behind the scenes... And weekend. I would see two, three, About 35... and lots of actresses When you were made head of movies, and just think about what got married 12 weeks later. So it then producing seemed so inter- four movies a weekend. That was turned down the Glenn Close part 20th Century Fox, The New York you care about. was really fast, but 23 years later esting to me. But what I had was all I did. I loved seeing movies; also. It was a movie no one want- Times front-page headline was Was it your job as producer we were right. z ON THE TOWN PRÁVO AUDIENCE AWARD

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1/ KVIFF Grand Jury president Luis Miñarro enjoying himself at the screening of his Falling Star at the KV Theater

2/ Cast members Pavel Batěk and Vica Kerekes dressed to the nines for the presentation of All My Tomorrows

3/ Packing them in at the Thermal Grand Hall Photo: KVIFF Photo: Milan Malíček Photo: Milan Malíček

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