The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) has shared details about its forthcoming 57th edition, which runs from June 30 – July 8.
Among the highlights announced today, the festival will host two large-scale retrospective programs. The first, a celebration of independent Iranian cinema, will feature works by nine Iranian filmmakers who the festival said represent “a spiritual connection to the previous generations of their country’s greats, tackle the current reality with a remarkable sensitivity and great inventiveness.”
“Together, these nine unique and intensely personal testimonies form a multi-dimensional mosaic that reflects the collective spirit and openness of Iran’s young cinema of today,” the festival added.”
The selection of films will include The Skin, K9, and Dream’s Gate.
The second retrospective will celebrate the work of Japanese filmmaker Yasuzo Masumura, a little-seen but towering figure of Japan’s New Wave. The screening...
Among the highlights announced today, the festival will host two large-scale retrospective programs. The first, a celebration of independent Iranian cinema, will feature works by nine Iranian filmmakers who the festival said represent “a spiritual connection to the previous generations of their country’s greats, tackle the current reality with a remarkable sensitivity and great inventiveness.”
“Together, these nine unique and intensely personal testimonies form a multi-dimensional mosaic that reflects the collective spirit and openness of Iran’s young cinema of today,” the festival added.”
The selection of films will include The Skin, K9, and Dream’s Gate.
The second retrospective will celebrate the work of Japanese filmmaker Yasuzo Masumura, a little-seen but towering figure of Japan’s New Wave. The screening...
- 4/25/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The 57th edition of Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, which runs June 30-July 8, has planned a retrospective program focused on Iranian cinema with a selection of films made in the past four years. The festival will also celebrate the work of Japanese filmmaker Yasuzo Masumura.
Commenting on the Iranian cinema program, the festival said in a statement: “Collectively these works offer an insightful testimony of the burning creativity of Iran’s artists in face of the challenging reality. Nine mostly young filmmakers – urgent, unheard voices – who palpably bear a spiritual connection to the previous generations of their country’s greats, tackle the current reality with a remarkable sensitivity and great inventiveness.
“Melancholic dramas, comedies, war movies, sci-fis…films about love, and films within films. Together, these nine unique and intensely personal testimonies form a multi-dimensional mosaic that reflect the collective spirit and openness of Iran’s young cinema of today.
Commenting on the Iranian cinema program, the festival said in a statement: “Collectively these works offer an insightful testimony of the burning creativity of Iran’s artists in face of the challenging reality. Nine mostly young filmmakers – urgent, unheard voices – who palpably bear a spiritual connection to the previous generations of their country’s greats, tackle the current reality with a remarkable sensitivity and great inventiveness.
“Melancholic dramas, comedies, war movies, sci-fis…films about love, and films within films. Together, these nine unique and intensely personal testimonies form a multi-dimensional mosaic that reflect the collective spirit and openness of Iran’s young cinema of today.
- 4/25/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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It's time to smear some ketchup over your chest as we pay our respects to cinema's attempts at playing dead
Jesus Christ, William Wallace, Bambi's mother. A great movie death can haunt many a young fan. It can also haunt many a studio executive, an elegant freeze frame here, a great franchise opportunity dead there. Don't believe me? Check out this disaster.
But if you yearn to harness the power of a screen death, yet want to avoid the messy inconvenience of the loss of a protagonist there is an alternative: fake it.
Bambi's mother didn't simulate death as part of an undercover sting, to rob a Vegas casino, or second-guess a homicidal boyfriend. Disney decided to traumatise its young audience with the full dead parent shebang. However, it never stooped as low as Warner Brothers managed for The Dark Knight.
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Jesus Christ, William Wallace, Bambi's mother. A great movie death can haunt many a young fan. It can also haunt many a studio executive, an elegant freeze frame here, a great franchise opportunity dead there. Don't believe me? Check out this disaster.
But if you yearn to harness the power of a screen death, yet want to avoid the messy inconvenience of the loss of a protagonist there is an alternative: fake it.
Bambi's mother didn't simulate death as part of an undercover sting, to rob a Vegas casino, or second-guess a homicidal boyfriend. Disney decided to traumatise its young audience with the full dead parent shebang. However, it never stooped as low as Warner Brothers managed for The Dark Knight.
1) An allegory for "the war on terror"? A war on camp characters,...
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