Karlovy Vary E-Show Daily Number Two

TOP STORIES: Mel Gibson on Hollywood, Independent Filmmaking, Sharks, Vikings and Gary Oldman; '...

Karlovy Vary eSHOW DAILY NUMBER TWO 07.07.14

TOP STORIES Mel Gibson on Hollywood, Independent Filmmaking, Sharks, Vikings and Gary Oldman By Leo Barraclough Mel Gibson was at the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival Friday to receive the Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema. He also went on stage before an open-air screening of "Mad Max," attended by more than 3,000 sc... Read Full Story at Variety.com → 'The Tribe' Scores Spirited Sales (EXCLUSIVE) By John Hopewell and Leo Barraclough Ukrainian Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy's "The Tribe," which Karlovy Vary Film Fest artistic director Karel Och describes as "the cinematic event of the year," is maintaining sales momentum after sweeping all three prizes at Cannes Critics' Week. ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Youth-Themed Pix Dominate Europe's LUX Prize Competition By Leo Barraclough The official selection of the LUX Prize, which was unveiled Sunday at the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, is dominated by pics that focus on the challenges facing Europe's youth. The pics short-listed for the prize, which is intended to sh... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Chad Hartigan Talks Next Feature 'Morris From America' In Karlovy Vary By Guy Lodge This time last year, Chad Hartigan hit Karlovy Vary midway through an extensive festival tour for his soph feature "This is Martin Bonner." Read Full Story at Variety.com → 'Paris of the North' Helmer Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson Sets 'Kanari' (EXCLUSIVE) By John Hopewell Having seen his debut remade by David Gordon Green as "Prince Avalanche," Iceland's Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson is prepping "Kanari" to follow-up Karlovy Vary competition player "Paris of the North." "Prince Avalanche" won a best director 20... Read Full Story at Variety.com → 'La Tirisia': Tracing the Social Causes of Mexico's Perpetual Sadness By John Hopewell It is no coincidence that when Brazil's president Dirma Rousseff announced this week a $540 million federal financing package for film and TV in Brazil for 2014, one of the first measures she specified was coin for cultural projects in six o... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Fog'n'Desire and Sokol Kollar Join MD4 for Karlovy Vary Project 'Red Spider' By Emiliano De Pablos Agnieszka Kurzydlo's Warsaw-based outfit MD4 is partnering with Czech Republic's Fog'n'Desire Films and Slovakia's Sokol Kollar to co-produce serial killer story "Red Spider," the feature helming debut of Poland's multi-laurelled Marcin Kosz... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Variety Critics' Choice Helmer Rok Bicek Readies First Feature Docu By Alissa Simon Slovenian helmer Rok Bicek, at the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival with "Class Enemy," which plays as part of the Variety Critics' Choice program, is about to enter post-production on his first feature docu, "The Family" (pictured), and is ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → First Look of Trailer from Karlovy Vary Fest Player 'Kebab & Horoscope' (EXCLUSIVE) By Leo Barraclough Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer for black comedy "Kebab & Horoscope," which world premieres in the East of the West competition section at the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival. The pic is the debut feature... Read Full Story at Variety.com → REVIEWS Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Asthma' By Guy Lodge Junkie life is as chicly miserable as its most vapid chroniclers have always had us believe in "Asthma," a feature directorial debut from actor Jake Hoffman that is sorely in need of its own inhaler. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'All Yours' By Guy Lodge Generally under-represented in queer cinema, the "B" quadrant of LGBT culture gets some gentle, thoughtful attention in David Lambert's refreshingly polysexual romantic comedy "All Yours." Read Full Story at Variety.com → Film Review: 'Xenia' By Guy Lodge The word "Xenia" refers to the Greek tradition of generous hospitality toward strangers – an appropriate title, then, for a film that gladly accommodates all manner of curiosities. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Film Review: 'Macondo' By Peter Debruge Visit Vienna as a tourist and you aren't likely to see kids like Ramasan, the 11-year-old subject of docu director Sudabeh Mortezai's empathetically observed fiction debut, "Macondo." Read Full Story at Variety.com → Film Review: 'White Shadow' By Guy Lodge Veering wildly between earthy verite and near-ecstatic surrealism, this Tanzanian-set tale of a resourceful albino adolescent learning to survive in a community brutally geared against his kind is stylistically reckless in the best possible ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Film Review: 'Calvary' By Justin Chang Brendan Gleeson gives a performance of monumental soul in John Michael McDonagh's masterful follow-up to "The Guard." Read Full Story at Variety.com → Film Review: 'Frank' By Peter Debruge A faceless Michael Fassbender stars in this weird and wonderful musical comedy from director Lenny Abrahamson. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Steve Golin on Movie Projects: 'It's Got to Be Something That I Feel Passionate About' By Andrea Seikaly Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival will pay tribute this year to U.S. development, production and management company Anonymous Content, founded in 1999 by Steve Golin. The company's portfolio includes hit films such as "Eternal Sunshine of the... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Tweet this Forward this

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