ENGLISH SECTION Festival Daily SPECIAL EDITION OF THE OFFICIAL ENGLISH DAILY OF THE 46TH KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Wednesday, July 6, 2011 free • page 1 ENG day DIVÁCKÁ CENA / AUDIENCE AWARD Tomorrow’s program Midnight movies Monte Hellman go bump in the night returns to KVIFF DENÍKU Vote for the best film of the 46th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival! (Czech section: pages 6, 7, 8) page 2 6 page 4 (Czech section: page 2) THE LOWDOWN If Sam said it, I’d go along with it One of the hottest events to crash at KVIFF is, of course, the master classes, held in Burt Young on ‘crazy genius’ of Peckinpah and getting Stallone on his knees the Jameson tent just up- stream of the Thermal. If Will Tizard you’re willing to wade into a corner area where your feet With some 130 films to his stick to the floor thanks to last name, Burt Young is one of Amer- night’s spilled mojitos, you’re invariably in for some great ica’s most favored character ac- craic tors, known for his tough, emi- , as the Irish would say. nently credible depictions of Tuesday’s session’s was hoods, grifters, cons and cranks, with Ted Hope, one of the and for making them somehow original producers of the Hal lovable. At 71, he’s now talking Hartley movies of the 1990s up his latest role in Tom Mc- and later Todd Solondz Win movies Dark Horse and Carthy’s infectious comedy American Splendor Win, about burned out lawyer . He’s also a renegade columnist for Indie Paul Giamatti who tries to save Wire the inept wrestling team he’s . It’s a platform from coaching, while also trying to save which he loves to launch mis- his practice by ripping off siles at Hollywood establish- a wealthy client (played by ment thinking, advocating all Young). manner of unconventional ap- proaches, from creating extra n So what are your impres- Facebook episodes to help sions of the festival so far? Is the build a fan base to making Grand Hotel Pupp ok? films into “an event” that’s Isn’t it beautiful? I mean not ok, much more than a movie. it’s like twice Disneyland – it’s like All without the help of dis- it’s built from the clouds. tributors – you know, those This is special. The people are big, powerful companies that wonderful. They’re earnest. So hopefully buy and market I’m pleased as hell. And I’m not your film. If you wait for them a good flyer you know. But my Hloušek Petr Photo: to come along these days, ar- daughter says ‘You must go, you’ll Veteran actor and former boxer Burt Young. gues Hope, you’re already see Europe like you never saw be- done. It was heady stuff and most fore.’ My kid told me. emphatic about it, you know, with No, no, not commanding. He I’m Sylvester Stallone. I wrote es, showing him, ‘cuz I fought in the audience were trans- n I don’t know anybody who kindness. was completely un-commanding, Rocky.” I says, “Oh, congratula- professionally. Well, I never was fixed by the mogul’s ma- likes flying, but you gotta do it, n Czechs are really fans of for me. He was rough on girls tions.” ‘Cuz it was beautiful, you making a career out of it, but chine-gun speaking style right? some of your road movies, such I think, on Ali MacGraw. But on know? It was like street presence, I used it almost like a psychiatrist, and his eagerness to toss out My girlfriend don’t mind. She as Convoy, which Sam Peckin- me, no. it was clean and to the point. It was when I was feeling dumpy and not dozens of ideas per minute. sleeps like a kangaroo. pah directed in Arizona. n When you did Rocky with beautiful, and I told him that. He secure, I’d book a couple of fights Just as he wrapped up a pitch n So the critics and audiences Peckinpah was a good friend of Sylvester Stallone, did you add says, “You gotta do the part. and have to shape up, get scared for building a movie brand in are responding warmly to Win mine, I think I did four, five something to the character of I thought of you, you gotta do it.” again. the way the Finnish filmmak- Win. And this is a nice, fully de- movies with him. But he called up Paulie to help him develop into And I says, “Shhh! I’m gonna do n And on Once Upon a Time ers behind the pending moon veloped character, which you – I think he was out in Hungary one of your best-known roles? it, but lemme twist their arm.” in America, working with Sergio Nazis sci-fi release Iron Sky haven’t always been given. filming – and he called me up (I’m With Rocky I was the only actor That’s when I first met him. Leone, was he up to some of have, a local film bizzer piped Well, I try my best to bring their in California) and he says, ‘’I got that didn’t audition. They audi- n So you had a lot of power to your input? in. life and my life to the forefront. the rights to the CB radio thing, we tioned Burgess Meredith, they au- shape characters; you could say Well, I did a thing where I had Isn’t it dangerous, he asked, I take what I do pretty seriously. can make the movie!’’ I didn’t ditioned Thalia Shire, but they did- he should do this, he wouldn’t De Niro and Pesci and Woods to give filmmakers “wrong ex- When you get a project like Win know what he was talking about. n’t audition me. The producers do that… around a table, and I made them pectations” of how big their Win, written and directed by [Tom] He said, ‘’It’s revolutionary!’’ came and my agent was dragging Oh yeah, I would. Sometimes give me a big hunk of pastrami, audiences can grow? It may McCarthy – he’s a very nice actor, I didn’t see it, but anything he said an anchor to get a couple of dol- I’d rewrite. Sometimes more than I think it was. ‘Cuz the speech be art movies, Hope respond- himself and he’s a painstakingly I would go along with. He was lars, you know. And all of a sud- rewrite. I always touched things I had to give there was very vulgar. ed, but “it’s also showbiz.” pain-in-the-ass director. I mean, he a crazy genius. A good friend. den Stallone was in some com- up. So I tried to break it up with life. Czech modesty or no, these was doing like 15 takes. Every- n Would he give you much missary somewhere. I’d never met He did all the fights, he choreo- And I was eating, mustard on my days you’ve just gotta sell thing I don’t like. But he had freedom as an actor, or was he him, and he comes in, kneels by graphed most of them. But yeah, face. It was quite a good piece of yourself, it seems. n a clear image in mind and he was very commanding? my table and says, “Mr. Young. I did help. I was throwing punch- work. At least I think so. n SEE YOU THERE EXPLAINER The elixir of life – on sale in KV since 1807 Joshua Moore If you’ve got an hour the Czechs consume 60% of in your packed screening the seven million liters pro- Writer/Director, I Think It’s Raining schedule, pop over to duced annually, some people the Becherovka Museum are definitely exceeding the I’m excited to see Code Blue, which I’ve heard good on T.G. Masaryka 57 to recommended dose. There’s things about. I think the film looks interesting because it learn about the strange his- a long tradition of this; the sounds like a portrait of a character, not so plot-driven, tory of one of the Czechs’ Hapsburg imperial court had which is similar to my film. I think it’s a nice change to re- favorite drinks. Becherovka, a standing order of 50 liters ally get into the emotional complexities of a character, so the golden herbal bitter once a month. Outsiders have that one I’m excited to see. I’m also interested in Sunflower described by a friend as tast- been trying to get their hands Hour, which is another film in the Forum of Independents. ing “like Christmas in hospital,” is a blend of over 20 on the secret since the 1800s, with several famous It looks really fun and unique. It’s a mockumentary, appar- herbs and spices that’s kept top secret; we’re talking trademark trials going through the courts. Sadly, the ently, on puppeteers – and I can’t say I’ve ever seen a film handcuffed briefcases and vaults here. The original alchemical secret of turning Becherovka into gold about that. It looks really interesting, like a Christopher recipe was bequeathed to Josef Becher by English has been lost to the Czechs. In 1997 – promising that Guest-type mockumentary, and it looks great. alchemist Christian Frobrig in 1805 (inexplicably its ownership would remain in Czech hands – the voiced by an American in the museum’s excellent government decided to sell the company, which had Code Blue screens today at 11am and on July 9 at 5pm new documentary).