Recent Czech cinema has been gaining a reputation when it comes to revisiting history. Hefty award festooned mini-series-cum feature film The Burning Bush directed by renowned filmmaker Agnieszka Holland and Andrea Sedláčková´s sports drama Fair Play shaped moral heroes against an oppressive communist backdrop, elevating them on a pedestal to times not yet forsaken. As that goes Czech filmmakers don´t always paint life under dictatorship in such grey colours as Jiří Vejdělek proved in his maudlin yearning for adolescence in Tender Waves. Slovak director (and actor) Juraj Nvota adds his two cents with Hostage, which nods towards Vejdělek´s venture. Nvota has already laid a critical eye on communist times in two films: his thriller The Confidant (set in 68´ Czechoslovakia), and the domestic drama Music,...
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- 1/13/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Czech cinema retains a certain routine portfolio in its offerings. The main and dominant current consists of films reflecting the recent past, mostly the era of communism, socialism and then normalisation. These stories come in the form of paeans to moral heroes who more often than not surrendered to conformity to preserve their integrity even for the price of jeopardizing their existential comfort. Generally, those are the most talked about and awarded works. Films such as In the Shadow (which received 9 Czech lions, the national award, in 2012), and the undisputed champion of national awards, The Burning Bush (11 Czech lions). The recent black horse from this current is Fair Play, a story of a rising young athlete, aiming for the Olympic Games in...
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- 5/2/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Indian curator Meenakshi Shedde, who is on the Grand Jury of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, writes from the festival
I t is intoxicating to return to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which I had first attended last year. Not many outside the film festival circuit have heard of this festival, which is about an hour from Prague in the Czech Republic–if the fancy Audi the festival sent for you has a cool driver purring along at 140kmph. But I’d say it’s in the top 10-15 festivals worldwide. And that’s a herculean achievement, considering every small town on the planet, including in India, has its own international film festival these days.
One of the reasons I love Karlovy Vary is I really love smaller cities and towns. They have a unique character that the big cities don’t have. And Karlovy Vary (German name...
I t is intoxicating to return to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which I had first attended last year. Not many outside the film festival circuit have heard of this festival, which is about an hour from Prague in the Czech Republic–if the fancy Audi the festival sent for you has a cool driver purring along at 140kmph. But I’d say it’s in the top 10-15 festivals worldwide. And that’s a herculean achievement, considering every small town on the planet, including in India, has its own international film festival these days.
One of the reasons I love Karlovy Vary is I really love smaller cities and towns. They have a unique character that the big cities don’t have. And Karlovy Vary (German name...
- 7/4/2013
- by Meenakshi Shedde
- DearCinema.com
FremantleMedia has acquired global distribution rights to Half The Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity. Inspired by the books of Nicholas Kirstof and Sherly WuDunn, the four-hour series follows the authors and a host of celebrity advocates on a journey across 10 countries to showcase stories of female resilience in the face of adversity. The documentary airs in the U.S. on PBS in late 2014. Maro Chermayeff, Jamie Gordon, Jeff Dupre, Mira Chang and Joshua Bennett are producing the program from Show of Force Productions. Germany’s Beta Film will handle international sales on HBO Europe’s three-part mini The Burning Bush. Directed by Agnieszka Holland and based on real events, the series follows the plight of Jan Palach, who set himself on fire in protest of the Soviet occupation of Prague in 1969, and his family’s legal fight to clear his name. HBO Europe’s most ambitious project to date,...
- 4/7/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Another film looks to be added to Steven Spielberg’s busy slate, as he’s entered into advanced talks with Warner Bros to direct Gods And Kings.
Prior to this year’s double of The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and the upcoming War Horse, the last film Steven Spielberg directed was 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. But it doesn’t look as though we’ll have such a long wait for the director's next set of projects: Lincoln is currently filming and set for release next year, and Robopocalypse is in pre-production and scheduled for a 2013 release.
Looking beyond those, though, it now seems as though Warner Bros are in talks with the director to helm Gods And Kings. This is a project which tells the story of Moses from birth to death, based on events explored in the Book of Exodus,...
Prior to this year’s double of The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and the upcoming War Horse, the last film Steven Spielberg directed was 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. But it doesn’t look as though we’ll have such a long wait for the director's next set of projects: Lincoln is currently filming and set for release next year, and Robopocalypse is in pre-production and scheduled for a 2013 release.
Looking beyond those, though, it now seems as though Warner Bros are in talks with the director to helm Gods And Kings. This is a project which tells the story of Moses from birth to death, based on events explored in the Book of Exodus,...
- 11/16/2011
- Den of Geek
First off, I have to tell you that this page may load slow. We're making an awful lot of calls to the Amazon Api here, and that's bound to monkey with things. If you have no idea what that means... it's shiny. Please note also that, for the same reason, you may find, depending on traffic, that not all of the Amazon details will load properly. I apologize for that, it's just the nature of the beast, and the fact that the Api wasn't really meant for such things. If you refresh, it will probably fix.
You may have heard me mention this giveaway quite a while ago, and it's taken me a long time to figure out what sort of format to put things in, and I kept added things. Eventually it became too much to really give any kind of run down on the items, so I decided...
You may have heard me mention this giveaway quite a while ago, and it's taken me a long time to figure out what sort of format to put things in, and I kept added things. Eventually it became too much to really give any kind of run down on the items, so I decided...
- 9/15/2011
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Direction and screenplay: Michael Moore Recommended Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11 The Burning Bush While criticizing U.S. president George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, filmmaker Michael Moore was loudly booed by some at the 2003 Academy Awards ceremony. Not long afterwards, Moore decided he was gonna show ‘em who was right. And show ‘em he does with his Palme d'Or-winning documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, which relies on interviews, news articles, and footage edited out of newscasts to create a relentless indictment of the Bush government, its corporate backers, and the (corporate-owned and -controlled) American media. Fahrenheit 9/11 begins with a dissection of [...]...
- 5/22/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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