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I'm a Walking Imdb ENGLISH SECTION Festival Daily SPECIAL EDITION OF THE OFFICIAL ENGLISH DAILY OF THE 47TH KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Tuesday, July 3, 2012 free • strana / page 1 Today’s Official day KVIFF goes on DIVÁCKÁ CENA / AUDIENCE AWARD Tomorrow’s program Selection films A Musical Odyssey DENÍKU Vote for the best film of the 47th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival! strana/page 6, 7, 8 strana/page 3 5 strana/page 4 strana/page 2 THE LOWDOWN It’s a reliable sign of a poor Lowdown columnist (and count- I’m a walking IMDb less bloggers, while we’re at it) to lead with a weather report; folks who read columns – and Mark Cousins on film and the rapture of self-loss even blogs – are generally aware of how hot, cold, wet or muggy Veronika Bednářová they feel. But it’s almost impossible not to mention the sweltering heat Northern Irish director and in KV this year, which has had cinéaste Mark Cousins is at Thermal audiences sweating KVIFF with two films – The buckets and nodding off. We just Story of Film: An Odyssey and hope that fans remember to What Is This Film Called Love. bring bottled water along to screenings until things cool off. n Where did your unique Some have, of course, solved love of film come from? the heat issue by heading for the It came from my childhood. pool. A grand party there Sun- I fell in love with cinema as a boy. day evening saw a classic velvet- I just loved it. In Belfast there was rope-type moment, when world- a war on and I was a nervous lit- famous DJ David Holmes was tle boy but then I would go into told that he would not be al- the cinema and just feel so re- lowed in because the event was laxed. It felt like cinema was tak- “VIP only.” Eventually, some- ing you in its arms and making one was located to explain to the you feel safe and opening win- security guys that Holmes was dows on worlds. And how could quite likely the most V of the IPs you resist? I was born in 1965 so at the event. I first went to the cinema in 1976- But never one for raging ego, 77. Cinema felt very safe. It still the down-to-earth Holmes him- feels very safe. When you’re sit- self ended up getting on fa- ting in the dark you can imagine mously with the veteran DJ who yourself as other people in other was laying down vintage tracks, worlds and I love that. There’s one Ivo Pospíšil, founder of the a lovely phrase that Joseph Radost FX music shop who Campbell has – “the rapture of could be described as Prague’s self-loss.” And that’s what cinema answer to Terri Hooley, the affords, the rapture of self-loss. subject of KVIFF opening film n There wasn’t any specific Good Vibrations, which Holmes film life in the 1970s in Belfast soundtracked. was there? The pair even swapped email Photo: Jan Handrejch No, on the contrary. It was pret- addresses so that they could lat- ty dead. But there was TV. There Better than Google: director Mark Cousins is a fount of cinema knowledge. er swap track recommendations. was the BBC. And I saw Alfred Tunes really do build bridges, folks! n Hitchcock films on TV; I saw that time helped you to latch on sons you and Tilda Swinton got tively open and they’re sucking in n The project that you are in- Orson Welles films on TV. And to the medium of cinema? together to work with the 8½ everything, so it’s a good time to troducing here, The Story of also there was a video black mar- I think people who feel slightly Foundation? get to a child and say look at this Film: An Odyssey, can it ever be ket so we watched horror movies like outsiders find themselves in- Yes, she and I founded that to- plenitude, look at this extraordi- topped? It seems like you’ve NOTICE on old video tapes. I remember side in the cinema. I now work gether. We didn’t know each oth- nary medium, this luminosity. done everything now. There will be two additional seeing The Exorcist. We were with Tilda Swinton, the great actor er till we were grown-ups but we n It’s like a Fellini movie It’s a big piece of work obvi- public screenings of Sára Cser- brought up very Catholic and my and she says we’re all outsiders. both fell in love with cinema isn’t it? ously. It took six years. It was sort halmi’s Dear Betrayed Friends aunt got holy water and blessed All the movie lovers are from an- around the age of 8½. So we It’s totally like a Fellini movie. of made in a way for my boyhood and one for press and industry. the video recorder before she put other planet, from the Planet Cin- thought it would be great to try Why it’s like a Fellini movie is of self. Somebody who had an ap- The latter takes place tomorrow in the tape of The Exorcist and ema, we’re all weirdos and let’s try and create a magic moment, course when you see films as petite for cinema, a curiosity for at 12:30pm in the Thermal’s I remember thinking if you have not to be other than weirdos. So all a threshold moment in a child’s a child there are lots of things you cinema. I wanted to make a kind Cinema B; the public screenings to bless a machine this must be so of these people here [at KVIFF] life halfway between their 8th and don’t understand like sex and of roadmap, saying look at this will be held at 4:30pm on July 5 powerful, this medium of cinema. are weirdos. They’re from the 9th birthdays. Because when morality and all sorts of things, world of cinema. It was great fun. Planet Cinema. You too. a child is that age, they’re not yet but you still have a sense that at the Pupp Cinema and at n n 12:30pm on July 6 in the Čas Do you think your feeling of I don’t deny it at all. Is trying to be cool, not yet teenag- there’s an amazing world out n nervousness regarding reality at your childhood one of the rea- er. Their minds are still imagina- there that you see in the movie. Continued on page 2 fl Cinema. SEE YOU THERE EXPLAINER Dan Sallitt KV’s (sometimes surprising) film cameos When seen from the right angle, Karlovy Vary’s Director, The Unspeakable Act certainly a star, even when its trademark festival's not up and running. That (and just possibly cheaper food One of the many films I’m looking forward to seeing is and accommodation rates than those of Prague) have Holy Motors by Leos Carax who is obviously a very well- won it prominent roles in lots of films shot in the known French filmmaker. He hasn’t made any films for Czech Republic. a few years other than a while back, when he made a short Just about everyone remembers the city's prome- film in a portmanteau movie called Tokyo, which was ex- nades popping up in a fantasy version of Montene- tremely good. The buzz on Holy Motors ever since its Photo: KVIFF gro, where people like James Bond come to bluff and screening at Cannes a little while ago has been very excit- melt girls' hearts with their card sharp acumen as he ing. I don’t know what actually happens in the film be- feature Shanghai Knights (subbing for a slightly sun- did in Casino Royale (pictured). The Grandhotel cause I’ve been trying to keep myself a virgin for it. It nier 19th-century London). sounds as if Carax has done something extraordinary and Pupp becomes the ridiculously opulent Hotel Splen- And let us not forget Hostel Part II − even if audi- he has certainly done some extraordinary things in the past, dide, a veritable den of intrigue and dodgy dealings. ences and distributors did pretty quickly − in which so this has to be one of my must-see films while I’m here. The role of the casino itself was performed with gus- Karlovy Vary showed off its more sinister side. Who to by the Lázně I building, in reality a venerable 19th- knew this city could pass itself off as an Italian town Holy Motors screens today at 10:30pm in the Ther- century spa facility. in which feisty American girls show would-be evil- mal’s Grand Hall and on July 6 at 9:30pm in the Small A few also recall Queen Latifah showing us that doers what a bad idea it is to mess with them? Hall, also at the Thermal. you can actually see the Alps from your Karlovy Vary With the Czech Republic's new 20-percent cash- You can catch Dan Sallitt’s film, The Unspeakable Act, hotel window, as she did in Wayne Wang's Last back production incentive now in force, it looks like today at 1pm in the Thermal’s Congress Hall, tomorrow Holiday while contemplating life and the secrets of a good bet that you'll be seeing the city in many more at 7pm in the same venue, and on July 7 at 10am in the Cajun cooking.
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