Opening ceremony featured Johnny Depp trailer, which poked fun at the actor’s 2021 attendance.
Russell Crowe brought rock and roll to the opening night of the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff), playing a 90-minute set having earlier accepted the Crystal Globe for outstanding contribution to world cinema.
Crowe and his band Indoor Garden Party combined their own music – including new single ‘Let Your Light Shine’, the title track from their upcoming album, and ‘Southampton’, about the English city – with covers including Johnny Cash’s ‘Folsom Prison Blues’, Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘A Hazy Shade Of Winter’, a Crowe-solo...
Russell Crowe brought rock and roll to the opening night of the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff), playing a 90-minute set having earlier accepted the Crystal Globe for outstanding contribution to world cinema.
Crowe and his band Indoor Garden Party combined their own music – including new single ‘Let Your Light Shine’, the title track from their upcoming album, and ‘Southampton’, about the English city – with covers including Johnny Cash’s ‘Folsom Prison Blues’, Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘A Hazy Shade Of Winter’, a Crowe-solo...
- 7/1/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The raucous period drama “Firebrand” was the official opening-night film at the 57th annual Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Friday night in the spa resort town outside Prague, but there was a lot more going on in and around the Grand Hall at the Hotel Thermal than just the on-screen battle between Alicia Vikander’s Catherine Parr and Jude Law’s King Henry VIII.
It also included the presentation of awards to Vikander and Russell Crowe, the usual complement of opening-night speeches, an extended dance number that appeared to be performed on ice skates (though it wasn’t on ice but on an artificial surface that mimicked ice but could be walked on safely) and, during breaks and after the movie, complete concerts by the British band Morcheeba and by Crowe’s nine-piece band, Indoor Garden Party.
If you missed that last part, don’t worry: Crowe was filming...
It also included the presentation of awards to Vikander and Russell Crowe, the usual complement of opening-night speeches, an extended dance number that appeared to be performed on ice skates (though it wasn’t on ice but on an artificial surface that mimicked ice but could be walked on safely) and, during breaks and after the movie, complete concerts by the British band Morcheeba and by Crowe’s nine-piece band, Indoor Garden Party.
If you missed that last part, don’t worry: Crowe was filming...
- 7/1/2023
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
From indoor ice skating feats to Russell Crowe rocking the crowd, the 57th edition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival has launched with all its unconventional charisma intact.
Audiences who had to weather a downpour clearly showed no signs of dampened spirits as they cheered the fest’s opening gala dancers on ice skates, then rose to their feet to applaud guests Crowe and Alicia Vikander, both of whom accepted honors for their robust range of film work.
Vikander, in accepting the award of fest president Jiri Bartoska, said she was moved to be celebrated in the Czech Republic, where her international career first took off with the 2012 shoot of “A Royal Affair.”
“I had a flush of amazing memories,” she told the crowd assembled in the grand hall of the 70s-tastic Hotel Thermal. Vikander, who will be presenting “Firebrand,” said the role of Henry VIII’s surviving wife appealed...
Audiences who had to weather a downpour clearly showed no signs of dampened spirits as they cheered the fest’s opening gala dancers on ice skates, then rose to their feet to applaud guests Crowe and Alicia Vikander, both of whom accepted honors for their robust range of film work.
Vikander, in accepting the award of fest president Jiri Bartoska, said she was moved to be celebrated in the Czech Republic, where her international career first took off with the 2012 shoot of “A Royal Affair.”
“I had a flush of amazing memories,” she told the crowd assembled in the grand hall of the 70s-tastic Hotel Thermal. Vikander, who will be presenting “Firebrand,” said the role of Henry VIII’s surviving wife appealed...
- 6/30/2023
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Self-seriousness is a common trait in the world of European cinema, but the opening night of the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival was a wholly playful affair, starting with the most unexpected sight of a troupe of acrobatic ice-skating showgirls spinning and whirling through fake snow and dry ice. Mc Marek Eben followed in a similarly feelgood vein, with a dryly witty monologue that touched on current affairs in the Czech Republic and the wider world without getting too heavily into the politics. A “surprise” appearance by festival stalwart Jiří Bartoška, whose attendance was initially in doubt, occasioned the first standing ovation of the night.
One of the bigger stars of this year’s festival was there in spirit, if not in physical form: it is a tradition that a guest to Kv pays back the favor next year with an appearance in one of the festival’s famously irreverent trailers,...
One of the bigger stars of this year’s festival was there in spirit, if not in physical form: it is a tradition that a guest to Kv pays back the favor next year with an appearance in one of the festival’s famously irreverent trailers,...
- 6/30/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
The 57th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival got off to a star-studded start Friday evening, with the opening ceremony also including much humor and some political commentary from Czech actor and TV presenter Marek Eben.
“Dear foreign visitors, welcome to the Czech Republic,” he said at the start of the event before highlighting that since the creation of his country, it has “never sought to conquer the territory of another state,” according to a translation provided via headphones. He added: “The small territory we have is perfectly enough for us.”
The comment was seen as a remark about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which was on many attendees’ minds during last year’s edition of the fest. The host then also seemed to make a reference to Nazi Germany’s occupation of Poland and the former Czechoslovakia, saying his country had never invaded Germany or Poland.
Eben later,...
“Dear foreign visitors, welcome to the Czech Republic,” he said at the start of the event before highlighting that since the creation of his country, it has “never sought to conquer the territory of another state,” according to a translation provided via headphones. He added: “The small territory we have is perfectly enough for us.”
The comment was seen as a remark about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which was on many attendees’ minds during last year’s edition of the fest. The host then also seemed to make a reference to Nazi Germany’s occupation of Poland and the former Czechoslovakia, saying his country had never invaded Germany or Poland.
Eben later,...
- 6/30/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Audience members encouraged to scan Qr code, which led to YouTube video.
The 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival got underway with an unconventional instruction for cinemagoers – to take their phones out.
Prior to the beginning of the event on Friday, July 1, attendees were requested over the public address system “to turn on” their mobile phones, “and take video during the ceremony”.
The event started with a large Qr code projected on the screen in the Hotel Thermal’s Velky sal auditorium. Those who scanned it were connected to a YouTube video promoting the event, creating a strange but communal...
The 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival got underway with an unconventional instruction for cinemagoers – to take their phones out.
Prior to the beginning of the event on Friday, July 1, attendees were requested over the public address system “to turn on” their mobile phones, “and take video during the ceremony”.
The event started with a large Qr code projected on the screen in the Hotel Thermal’s Velky sal auditorium. Those who scanned it were connected to a YouTube video promoting the event, creating a strange but communal...
- 7/2/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Karlovy Vary artistic advisor Eva Zaoralová with, from left, artistic director Karel Och, production manager Petr Lintimer, executive director Kryštof Mucha, president of the festival Jiří Bartoška, and presenter Marek Eben Photo: Courtesy of Kviff The artistic director for many decades of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic Eva Zaoralová has died at the age of 89.
With her trademark black-rimmed spectacles and blonde hair she was an unmistakeable presence at the festival which was established in 1946 as the leading film event in Central and eastern Europe.
Zaoralová, a film journalist with a passion for French cinema in particular and Czech actor Jiří Bartoška formed a new team in 1994 as artistic director and president respectively with the aim of restoring the event to international status after years of political interference by the former Communist regime. She stepped down due to failing health in 2010 and Karel Och took...
With her trademark black-rimmed spectacles and blonde hair she was an unmistakeable presence at the festival which was established in 1946 as the leading film event in Central and eastern Europe.
Zaoralová, a film journalist with a passion for French cinema in particular and Czech actor Jiří Bartoška formed a new team in 1994 as artistic director and president respectively with the aim of restoring the event to international status after years of political interference by the former Communist regime. She stepped down due to failing health in 2010 and Karel Och took...
- 3/11/2022
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The 55th edition of the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival returned to life in a fully live format Friday after a year-long Covid-forced break, with its traditional rousing dance numbers and a lifetime achievement Crystal Globe for Michael Caine.
The versatile two-time Oscar winner prompted his third standing ovation from the audience packed into the fest’s Grand Hall at the Hotel Thermal when he raised his walking cane from the stage in thanks to his fans.
Saying he began his actor’s journey as “a nobody from nowhere who knew nothing,” Caine told the crowd, “You’ve given me an award for something I love doing.” Fest president Jiri Bartoska honored him with what the actor called the heaviest prize he’s ever tried to lift at an upbeat ceremony featuring elaborate choreography themed around the 1960s U.S. pop song “Popcorn,” with dancers whirling discs that riffed on...
The versatile two-time Oscar winner prompted his third standing ovation from the audience packed into the fest’s Grand Hall at the Hotel Thermal when he raised his walking cane from the stage in thanks to his fans.
Saying he began his actor’s journey as “a nobody from nowhere who knew nothing,” Caine told the crowd, “You’ve given me an award for something I love doing.” Fest president Jiri Bartoska honored him with what the actor called the heaviest prize he’s ever tried to lift at an upbeat ceremony featuring elaborate choreography themed around the 1960s U.S. pop song “Popcorn,” with dancers whirling discs that riffed on...
- 8/21/2021
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
The 54th Karlovy Vary Film Festival kicked off Friday with a short explainer in communist-era culture from host Marek Eben, who commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic with a tribute to a retro snack. Eben reminded audiences of what the evening would have looked like if not for the peaceful overthrow of the regime by Václav Havel and his followers with one word: chlebíčky.
The notorious open-faced egg and mayo sandwich appetizers that used to mark every party congress were guaranteed to land on your clothes, he explained as the mainly Czech audience broke up. “Then we were all equals,” Eben noted ironically.
It wasn’t clear whether anyone shared the joke, told in Czech, to Julianne Moore before she took the stage to receive her Crystal Globe for contribution to world cinema. Moore, who is also in the Bohemian spa town to screen the drama “After the Wedding,...
The notorious open-faced egg and mayo sandwich appetizers that used to mark every party congress were guaranteed to land on your clothes, he explained as the mainly Czech audience broke up. “Then we were all equals,” Eben noted ironically.
It wasn’t clear whether anyone shared the joke, told in Czech, to Julianne Moore before she took the stage to receive her Crystal Globe for contribution to world cinema. Moore, who is also in the Bohemian spa town to screen the drama “After the Wedding,...
- 6/28/2019
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Corn Island wins Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival; Elle Fanning wins best actress prize.
George Ovashvili’s Corn Island, a mostly silent portrait of an old man and his granddaughter attempting to grow crops on a small patch of land in the middle of a river, has picked up the Crystal Globe at the 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4-12).
The prize, awarded on the closing night of the festival in the Czech spa town, included $25,000 to be shared between director Ovashvili and the film’s producer.
Earlier in the day, it was announced that Corn Island had won the Ecumenical Jury Award.
Gyorgy Palfi’s Free Fall, which tells the stories of characters over several floors of an apartment building, picked up several awards including the Special Jury Prize worth $15,000.
The Hungary-France-South Korea co-production also won Palfi the Best Director Award and the Europa Cinemas Label Award for the best...
George Ovashvili’s Corn Island, a mostly silent portrait of an old man and his granddaughter attempting to grow crops on a small patch of land in the middle of a river, has picked up the Crystal Globe at the 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4-12).
The prize, awarded on the closing night of the festival in the Czech spa town, included $25,000 to be shared between director Ovashvili and the film’s producer.
Earlier in the day, it was announced that Corn Island had won the Ecumenical Jury Award.
Gyorgy Palfi’s Free Fall, which tells the stories of characters over several floors of an apartment building, picked up several awards including the Special Jury Prize worth $15,000.
The Hungary-France-South Korea co-production also won Palfi the Best Director Award and the Europa Cinemas Label Award for the best...
- 7/12/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
After picking up the top honour at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Mel Gibson talked to Screen about a return to directing, a possible move into television and reuniting with Lethal Weapon director Richard Donner.
Mel Gibson has been back in front of the camera for upcoming action sequel The Expendables 3 and Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father, which recently wrapped in New Mexico.
But after accepting the Crystal Globe for artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, the director of Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto is hungry to get back behind the camera.
“I do, of course,” said Gibson, when asked by Screen if he would want to direct again. “It’s difficult because you have to spend a couple of years of your life doing it.
“Whatever it is you’re going to do, you have to make sure it’s going to mean something because it’s too...
Mel Gibson has been back in front of the camera for upcoming action sequel The Expendables 3 and Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father, which recently wrapped in New Mexico.
But after accepting the Crystal Globe for artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, the director of Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto is hungry to get back behind the camera.
“I do, of course,” said Gibson, when asked by Screen if he would want to direct again. “It’s difficult because you have to spend a couple of years of your life doing it.
“Whatever it is you’re going to do, you have to make sure it’s going to mean something because it’s too...
- 7/6/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
After picking up the top honour at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Mel Gibson talked to Screen about a return to directing, a possible move into television and reuniting with Lethal Weapon director Richard Donner.
Mel Gibson has been back in front of the camera for upcoming action sequel The Expendables 3 and Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father, which recently wrapped in New Mexico.
But after accepting the Crystal Globe for artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, the director of Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto is hungry to get back behind the camera.
“I do, of course,” said Gibson, when asked by Screen if he would want to direct again. “It’s difficult because you have to spend a couple of years of your life doing it.
“Whatever it is you’re going to do, you have to make sure it’s going to mean something because it’s too...
Mel Gibson has been back in front of the camera for upcoming action sequel The Expendables 3 and Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father, which recently wrapped in New Mexico.
But after accepting the Crystal Globe for artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, the director of Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto is hungry to get back behind the camera.
“I do, of course,” said Gibson, when asked by Screen if he would want to direct again. “It’s difficult because you have to spend a couple of years of your life doing it.
“Whatever it is you’re going to do, you have to make sure it’s going to mean something because it’s too...
- 7/6/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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