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Wednesday, July 9, 2008 free • strana / page 7 Slovak director day Interview with DIVÁCKÁ CENA / AUDIENCE AWARD Tomorrow’s program DENÍKU Dušan Hanák Vote for the best film of the 43rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival! strana/page 6, 11, 12 strana/page 8 6 strana/page 10 strana/page 2 Lowdown Evidently director Paul All you can hope for is contact Mazursky, known for his Hollywood triumphs in come- dy and romance, still possess- Veteran British director Nicolas Roeg rails against corporate censorship es the saucy sense of humor that made Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice such a hit in 1969. At Cóilín O’Connor now. But we won’t go into those the New Hollywood II line-up [laughs]... of Hollywood cinema legends, I In films like Don’t Look British director Nicolas Roeg, which included actress Rita Now and The Man Who Fell to Tushingham, cinematograph- who made his mark with brood- Earth, you veered quite far ing, disjointed masterpieces like er Vilmos Szigmond and away from the original materi- writer Lorenzo Semple, Performance, Walkabout and al. Why was that? The Man Who Fell to Earth, is the Jr., Mazursky cheerfully I don’t like making big plans. announced his intention to subject of a special tribute at You like to think that you can base return to the KVIFF this year. things on a premise, but that can to shoot a film “with a single then change. You often hear Czech woman.” I You’ve cast a lot of rock authors say how they changed Laughter greeted this decla- stars like Mick Jagger, David what a character was and nobody ration, and one cheeky pho- Bowie and Art Garfunkel in pulls them up for that. Painters tographer asked when he your films. Is there anything paint sunflowers in a way that God would cast the part. “Today!” about these performers that didn’t make them. Everyone’s dif- Mazursky responded, beam- attracts you? ferent. We’re all individuals inter- ing at the sea of clicking cam- They’re performers. Acting has preting things according to our era shutters. “It’s about changed over the years. own way. The only thing you can a photographer who loses his Performers are great single acts, hope to achieve when you’re camera,” he elaborated, “and aren’t they? Back then they were doing anything is to make contact his wife.” very close to the period. They had with someone. Not long after, a member of a closer understanding of the I From Walkabout to The the KVIFF technical staff changing form of things. And it’s Man Who Fell to Earth, your incited the wrath of Mazursky, always changing, isn’t it. Look at films regularly place the pro- who presumably won’t be the end of the hippies: That tagonists in an alien environ- signing up for assertiveness changed and became Wall Street. ment. What is your interest in training any time soon. And now that’s going down the having such culturally dislocat- “Turn that fucking cell drain and we’re going through ed characters? phone off!” he yelled when another change. And that will be Well I think one stands out the unmistakable ring of the enacted in a different way. more and you see things more in staffer’s mobile phone inter- Reality television, for example, is an alien environment. I don’t see rupted the panel a third time. changing what drama means, London the way a new visitor that Mazursky had just been isn’t it? has never been there sees it. You making the point that modern I What do you make of the Táborský Lukáš Photo: have been living here for years. audiences seem to lack the reality TV phenomenon? Pioneering director Nicolas Roeg who is being honored at KVIFF this year. I find this place terribly exhilarat- attention span required to “The world is ever-changing, ing and extraordinary. When it take in big-screen movies Mr. Farnsworth, like the uni- with, but corporate censorship is Bummed. What did you make of I think linear is more unusual gradually becomes familiar you because they spend so much verse.” That’s a line from Eureka about money. that? than lateral thinking. Your mind don’t see it the same way. It’s like time focused on their electron- [made by Roeg in 1984]. And I Speaking of corporate cen- I reacted in a very flattered and isn’t linear is it? When someone an extraordinary painting. ic gear. No verdict yet on that’s exciting. Generally, it’s cor- sorship, your studio was so nice way because at least I’d asks you, “What was it like grow- I Your work is now very whether they can recognize porate censorship that doesn’t shocked by Performance that made contact with someone. ing up in Ireland?” you get much part of the canon in the and appreciate irony. like change, because they have they didn’t want to release it. Is They had come back and said, a picture that comes into your West, but many at KVIFF will Meanwhile, blocks away, at just invested in something. it true that one of the execu- “Hello! I know what you’re think- head. In a film, you are able to go be seeing it for the first time. a former palace that’s looking They’re capable of doing things tive’s wives vomited during ing.” That’s the best I could hope into your eyes and see some inci- How do you think a “virgin a bit run down these days, that are 25 years ahead of what a test screening? for. I’d said hello to them in my dent there, which is what you are audience” today will react to journalists at the HBO Press they want to put on the market. Performance was a long time way, and they’d said hello back in thinking. I don’t think anyone your work of several decades Brunch were enjoying old- Change is huge, but that’s no ago. It had a very difficult birth. their way, which is terrific. It’s at lives in a linear world. It’s just ago? school atmosphere in a rare good to them. Corporate censor- But now it’s alright. least something. unnatural. They’ll probably be more old Karlovy Vary edifice that ship is the most powerful censor- I Clips from Performance I You are well known for I So you never deliberately familiar with that form, which is has not been made over and ship of all. It’s much more power- were actually sampled by Big your non-linear, cut-up editing try to wreck audience’s heads? ok. Any sort of new form – and turned into a cash cow. Good ful than moral censorship, politi- Audio Dynamite for the song technique. Do you have any- I’m trying to be closer to them. I wouldn’t be so arrogant as to location scouting, club 2 cal censorship and sexual E=MC , and it also inspired the thing against traditional plot- To understand. I’m trying to call it that – takes time to be Aeroport! censorship. They can be dealt Happy Mondays album lines? understand your thoughts right accepted. ± THERE ± KNOWLEDGE Anna Negri How did we get here? A brief history of KVIFF Director of Good Morning Heartache It’s the 43rd year of KVIFF so and Henry Fonda started to dis- the festival started in 1965, right? cover its delights and it became I am a little ignorant about the movies that Not quite. The film festival was a forum for directors of the Czech are showing because I just arrived yesterday. launched in 1946. Films were New Wave, such as Miloš Forman I think I would go and see Lou Reed’s Berlin presented by the nationalized and Jiří Menzel. first, because I love both Lou Reed and Berlin Czechoslovak film industry, This optimism came to an – and Julian Schnabel. And probably Ciao, along with films from Europe and abrupt end in 1968 with the arrival Bella just because the title is in Italian and it’s the USA. Each day a single film of the Russian tanks and during about something which really interests me – was screened three times in the 1970s and 80s Karlovy Vary comedies about the integration of different Mariánské Lázně and then rushed largely became a festival of dull or cultures. And also there is an all-time master- off to be shown the next day in pompous films from the Soviet piece, which is Bad Timing by Nicolas Roeg. Karlovy Vary. Union and “brother nations” that However, the Communist were often presented in conjunc- Bad Timing screens today at 11am in the Armin Mueller-Stahl at the takeover in February 1948 meant Karlovy Vary fest in the 1980s. tion with Communist party meet- Karlovy Vary Theater. Ciao, Bella screens the festival faced decades of being ings. Thankfully the massive today at the Panasonic Cinema. And Lou used as a propaganda tool. The Film Festival, as it had been decid- social and political changes of Reed’s Berlin screens today at 10.30am and changeable political climate was ed to allocate only one category 1989 meant that the festival was July 11 at 10pm in the GH Pupp Cinema. reflected each year in the festival “A” festival per year to socialist finally liberated from political You can see Negri’s Good Morning program and in the conferral of countries. Hence the “lost years” pressure to gradually become the Heartache today at 10pm in the Espace awards. In 1958 the festival of KVIFF. Things started to look annual, international, star-studded, Dorleans cinema. became a biannual event, alternat- up in the mid-60s when audience-friendly affair you see ing with the Moscow International Hollywood stars like Tony Curtis today. I

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Timeless pictures of the old world New arrivals to the festival today include filmmakers Jeon Crystal Globe winner Dušan Hanák looks to express a little truth in his films Soo-il (With a Girl of Black Soil), Jan Prušinovský (Frankie Is a Womanizer), Kristýna Pleskotová where it was shot and this gives the film Ángel Loza a genuine aura of authenticity. (Heroes, Wings Other notable works by Hanák include, Are Not Along with Robert De Niro and Juraj I Love, You Love, a sensitive depiction of Necessary to Jakubisko, veteran Slovak director Dušan a lonely alcoholic who fantasizes about his Fly), Vladimír Hanák is one of this year’s recipients of friend’s lover. Although it was made in Michálek (Of a KVIFF Crystal Globe for his outstanding 1980, it was nine years before this realistic Parents and contribution to world cinema. It is a timely depiction of a young man searching for Children Jeon Soo-il ), acknowledgement of the work of an artist love in the grim setting of communist Sakamoto who is perhaps not as well known to finally made it to the big Junji (Children of the Dark) and Western audiences as other filmmakers of screen. When it eventually did get shown, producer Marek Rozenbaum the Czechoslovak New Wave, such as Jiří it immediately won a Silver Bear at the (Vasermil). Menzel and Miloš Forman. 1989 Berlin International Film Festival. Director René Vilbre, producer This is probably due to the fact that sev- “That was a great satisfaction after all Riina Sildos, and actors Rasmus eral of his films fell foul of communist those years of isolation,” says Hanák. “I Kaljujärv and Tambet Tuisk are censors and languished in vaults for was again at the center of the filmmaking in town with I Was Here. years. Many of Hanák’s works were world. It gave me great encouragement. Claudia Landsberger, Head of deemed too realistic a depiction of life in And I also got to stand on the stage next to Holland Film, is here with films socialist Czechoslovakia, and were quick- Dustin Hoffman!” from the Dutch Focus section, ly withdrawn from circulation by the Because of his uncompromisingly including Drift directed by powers that be. humanist approach, Hanák’s films from Michiel van Jaarsfeld. You may This is the fate that befell Pictures of the the normalization era have survived the also spot actress Monic Old World, one of two Hanák films being political changes since 1989 and still res- Hendrickx (Nadine), Loic screened at KVIFF this year as a tribute to onate with audiences today. “I am glad that Magneron, head of the sales the director. Made in 1972 at the height of people don’t look at them as old films,” company Wide Management “normalization” (a period of socialist says Hanák. “In the period of severe cen- (Divizionz, Distant Tremors) entrenchment following the Soviet inva- Photo: Milan Malíček sorship you had to fight to even be able to or director/producer Paul Dušan Hanák receives a Crystal Globe from KVIFF director Jiří Bartoška. sion of Czechoslovakia in 1968), this mov- say that something was black and that Mazursky ing documentary looks for real human val- nothing left. They kept me alive. Those Hanák was probably allowed to shoot something was white. I looked for oppor- (Bob & Carol ues through interviews with old people simple people carry the archetypes of our the movie because it paid lip service to the tunities to at least express a little truth that & Ted & Alice who now live on the edge of society. This ancestors and really open up the hearts of regime’s interest in Roma integration. But could be generalized. This is a good prin- and Yippee: beautifully shot montage of life stories viewers around the world. I knew they beneath a veneer of (socialist) political ciple. I wanted my stories to be specific A Journey to portrays a generation of people who have were the most beautiful people in my life.” correctness, the film is a humanist tale of and universal at the same time.” Jewish Joy). managed to retain an old world decency Hanák’s other work being shown at individual experience. The movie focuses Filmmakers despite the moral degradation of the dark KVIFF is the feature-film The Rosy on the joy of everyday life in rural The Rosy Dreams screens today at Xavier Baig times in which they found themselves liv- Dreams (1976). This lyrical love story set and the age-old story of love 10.30am in the Lázně III cinema. and Òscar Ángel Loza ing out their twilight years. in a Slovak village tells the tale of a young between two young people. Like many of Pictures of the Old World screens tomor- Moreno “During the period of normalization, postman who has to face the wrath of his his New Wave peers, casting both amateur row at 10.30am in the same venue. (Today, the Same Day Is I found inner freedom in these people and community for having a relationship with and professional actors is one of the key Notes and References, an exhibition of Different). Director Les Blank is continuity with the ideals of the 1960s, a beautiful gypsy girl (played by renowned principles of Hanák’s work. Many of the Dušan Hanák’s photographs, is also run- at KVIFF for the tribute to his which helped me to carry on,” says Hanák violinist and singer Iva Bittová, who was gypsy characters in The Rosy Dreams were ning throughout the festival on the first work, including Burden of “Had I given them up, I would have had then just 18 years old). played by the inhabitants of the village floor of the Thermal Hotel. I Dreams. I ± RECOMMEND

Nick Holdsworth Eastern Europe Bureau Chief, Variety Walkabout Director: Nicolas Roeg, UK, 1971 July 9, 1.30pm, GH Pupp Cinema This is the sort of film that makes Karlovy Vary such a special festi- val. One of the Tribute to Nicolas Roeg presentations, the 1971 story of a teenaged girl (played by the captivatingly beautiful Jenny Agutter) and her little brother stranded in the Australian outback has a mystical magic that stays with you. It must be 20 years since I last saw Walkabout and yet its deep, almost mesmerizing energy remains as vivid as the starkly beautiful landscape in which it is set. The Karamazovs Director: Petr Zelenka, Czech Republic-, 2008 July 9, 5pm, Grand Hall – Thermal Petr Zelenka is one of the brightest, most talented young directors in Europe today. His adaptation of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov is a film about a stage play set inside a steelworks during an alternative drama festival in Krakow, Poland. Zelenka uses the tension between the “fictional” world on stage and the “reality” that surrounds it to flesh out themes familiar from much Russian fiction: God, immortality and the human soul. It may sound heavy, but in Zelenka’s hands it’s a masterpiece. Captive Director: Alexey Uchitel, Russia-Bulgaria, 2008 July 9, 8pm, Grand Hall – Thermal An unusually sensitive Russian examination of the war in Chechnya and its corrupting effects on humanity. Set during one 24-hour period when two Russian soldiers are sent with a young Chechen rebel cap- tive into enemy territory to try to rescue a group of their comrades, the film examines the intimacy, absurdity and terror of one day in a senseless war. With its homoerotic undertones and breathtaking mountain and forest locations, Uchitel achieves an almost pastoral effect that does not shy away from its inevitably tragic ending. Citizen Havel Directors: Pavel Koutecký, Miroslav Janek, Czech Republic-USA, 2008 July 9, 3.30pm, Small Hall –Thermal Afforded unprecedented access to former Czech dissident and pres- ident Václav Havel and made over a period of 13 years, this two-hour documentary is a treat for Eastern Bloc political junkies. A hit at the Czech box office, this afternoon’s screening in the Thermal’s Small Hall is likely to be packed. With a cast of characters that include Havel’s political friends and allies such as Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Jacques Chirac (not to mention members of the Rolling Stones), the film is an intimate portrayal of the sort of statesman the world is sorely lacking today. I

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The Karamazovs – Captive – male intimacy a moral murder mystery in a time of war With The Karamazovs, direc- Official Selection film Captive tor and screenwriter Petr Zelenka is set against the backdrop of the has taken a long-running and suc- much-neglected conflict in cessful stage adaptation of Chechnya. Leningrad native Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Alexey Uchitel’s feature follows Karamazov by a well-known two Russian soldiers who take theater company and a young Chechen rebel captive committed it to film. “The first and force him to guide them impulse was an attempt to record along mountain trails into enemy and keep the Dejvice Theater’s territory with the intention of res- production,” he says. Although, cuing a group of their comrades. there are several dramatized ver- Despite the language barrier and sions of the classic novel, the fact that they are on opposites Zelenka chose this one by Evald sides in a vicious war, an unlikely Schorm because of what he bond develop between the troops describes as its straightforward and the boy while they make their qualities. “It’s a kind of detective way through a precarious but story and is therefore is quite suit- breathtakingly beautiful land- able for film.” scape. As they near their objec- Photo: KVIFF archive With a few minor exceptions he Photo: KVIFF archive tive, however, the men’s fragile has retained the cast of the origi- The theme that interested Zelenka In the film, strong emotions rapport disintegrates with tragic Chechen characters are played by I Do you think the story nal stage production. “The film is the most was the responsibility of like passion, hatred, love and jeal- consequences. Captive is theater actors from the capital could take place in reality? tighter and simpler and therefore the intellectual for the thoughts ousy reverberate inside the cold Uchitel’s second appearance in Grozny. It could definitely happen. more poignant than the theater he spreads in a society that has walls of a steel mill. In Zelenka’s the KVIFF competition. The I The actors had to manage I would even say that it could play,” he says. “It is the Dejvice lost its faith in God and in its own opinion, the choice of location Russian filmmakers’ His Wife’s a lot of difficult action. How did happen in any turbulent part of Theater guys at their best. When basic moral instincts. was an apt one. “I have always Diary also screened here in 2000. they cope? the world. The credibility and the audiences see this film they “What happens if someone been attracted to industry, and the Two thirds of the shooting was universality were important for will know what we mean when murders another person in the Karamazovs evidently belong in I Where exactly did you crazy – bad weather, cold and me. To achieve a certain docu- we talk about a ‘theater ensem- name of our ideas and according a factory, he says. “It’s interesting shoot? I can’t imagine you were mud combined with gunfire and mentary feel, we deliberately cast ble.’ In a sense it can resemble to ‘our instructions’? Are we that movies from a working class able to make the movie directly mass battle scenes. Absolutely the unknown actors who had never a rock band.” responsible for that?” he asks. environment – like that of facto- in war-torn Chechnya. most difficult part was the ascent been in a movie before. Schorm’s adaptation of “To put it simply: Is an intelligent The film was shot on various of the three heroes on a mountain ries – are no longer made in this Captive screens today at 8pm Dostoevsky’s novel is framed by person responsible for the behav- locations in the Crimea: outside peak in the rain. We shot it practi- country. Perhaps it’s too demand- in the Thermal’s Grand Hall and the story of a Czech theater group ior of morons?” Sevastopol, Feodosiya, in the cally in real time; the sequence ing technically or too expensive. tomorrow at 10am in the Espace that arrives at a Polish drama fes- Zelenka draws parallels to the mountains, especially near moun- lasts seven minutes. I must say Whatever the reason, it’s Dorleans Cinema. tival to play The Brothers present. “Czech politicians are a shame.” tain creeks. We consulted the that the guys climbed, scrambled Karamazov. During the rehearsal like the Smerdyakovs, who com- choice with people from and scaled with great endurance. Kateřina Rathouská we follow their actions offstage mit serious crimes under the veil The Karamazovs screens Chechnya who confirmed that the Another crazy shot was in the as well as a tragic moment in the of a misguided idea of democra- today at 5pm in the Thermal’s locations looked like places in middle of a mountain stream. The Correction: Director Arturo life of an audience member. cy,” he says. “And what about us? Grand Hall and tomorrow at their country. We needed every- actor Irakly Mskhalaia refused Ripstein’s first name was writ- The plot, which centers on Are we responsible? In a broader 1pm in the Espace Dorleans body to feel safe during the a double and swam very bravely ten incorrectly in an article in Festival Daily a patricide investigation, raises context, the film is about the Cinema. shooting and to concentrate on in icy water among rocks. It was the July 8 issue. a number of existential issues. ambivalence of human nature.” Kateřina Rathouská the work. By the way, all the quite dangerous. regrets the error.

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But what landing of an alien spaceship for you tend to do, though, is go on 1984’s The Brother From Another a trek. And they go through towns Planet with construction paper. that should look different. Yet his films, from 1979’s Return So we said to our production I Why are you at KVIFF? of the Secaucus Seven, through manager, find the local people I’m from TVP [Telewizja , Lone Star, Men with and say what do you make your Polska S.A.], that’s Polish Public Guns, Sunshine State and Silver poor people’s houses out of? So Television. We produce and dis- City are gutsy, socially relevant the look of the film changed tribute feature films, documen- probes into questions of civil because the building materials – tary films, animation films... rights, industrial exploitation, what you could hack down with actually, the majority of films racial tension and immigration a machete – changed. And the produced in Poland. Since I am issues. They are also highly enter- look of the people changed festival coordinator, I am respon- Photo: Lukáš Táborský because we were in different parts taining yarns, as is his current Director and scriptdoctor extraordinaire John Sayles. sible for screening our films in release, Honeydripper, an and there’s different indigenous the program of international fes- account of the roots of rock’n’roll and then they see 20 more min- Some if it really is: Is it a place Both of the Mexican movies groups in Mexico. And the lan- tivals and we do have Katyn by among black blues musicians of utes, but really it’s meant to be that still has some personality, not I made were set in unnamed Latin guages change. Andrzej Wajda screened here. the deep south who were given seen in two hours, an hour and just a Wal-Mart? There probably American countries. I love But I had one scene, in This is the official Czech pre- little credit for their art. forty minutes, whatever. You have is a Wal-Mart – you can’t avoid Mexico and I’d love to go back , where the actors spoke miere. The film will be released to be conscious of time as you that – but as American society there and shoot again. But you six different languages. And in Czech theaters quite soon. I You’re very much in reveal information. Whereas, gets more homogenized it’s hard- never know. It’s so hard to know I spoke Spanish and the main There will be a Czech distributor, demand as a script doctor, hav- with a 1000-page novel, nobody’s er and harder to find those places. what happens to your movies actors spoke Spanish, so I said, obviously, and we hope that the ing helped shore up the writing going to read it in a day. So what Like southwest Louisiana, where once they go overseas. We were ‘OK, so explain what the scene’s Karlovy Vary audience will like for films like Apollo 13 (though you’re able to do is leave the Cajun thing really is a part of just in Denmark and in Israel and about to them.’ So they knew the film. The film itself was you weren’t credited). But you a character for longer. Or have the culture. each country we go to, having what the scene was about but already shown in Berlin and it were first published as a rhythm within a chapter but not We’ve always kind of done it. now made 16 movies, it’s they’d never seen a movie before. got nominated for the Oscar for a novelist about the time you worry too much about the rhythm You don’t have to fly the people a different movie or two or three So we said, ‘OK, a movie is like best foreign language film. got started in film. How has from chapter to chapter. You get there. They have the local accent. or four that they’ve seen in that television.’ But they didn’t know I What have you done at your approach to authoring to digress. They look like somebody from country and you just don’t know what television was. the festival? books overlapped with the way I You generally insist on there and have local knowledge. what they’re going to be. So we said, ‘You’re Catholics, Mostly I speak to people and you write screenplays? shooting in the real location I also think it’s a nice way to kind We’ve sold packages to so- right? You’ve gone to the Catholic watch films... I also presented You know, in a movie you have where your film is set, even if it of make a bond with the commu- called Eastern Europe before but Church? So we’re going to do it our films in production in the to be constantly aware it’s taking means moving for weeks into nity so that you’re not coming then you don’t know what indi- over and over and over and a lot Works in Progress special panel. place in time. Yes, a lot of people the jungles of Mexico, and cast- down on a spaceship from vidual countries are getting or if of it’s not going to make any And right now I’m trying to see now rent the video and they see ing locally. What do you gain Hollywood. Or, in our case, New it’s just on TV. sense to you.’ And they said, some things I couldn’t see in 20 minutes and they go to sleep that makes it worth the trouble? Jersey. But we weren’t really talking ‘OK, we get that!’ I Cannes. I

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Photo: Milan Malíček Photo: Milan Malíček Photo: Milan Malíček New Hollywood cinema legends get cozy for the cameras. Charity wheelchair dance performance on the colonnade. Semra Turan dazzles the crowd with a star-power smile.

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