Karlovy Vary E-Show Daily Three

TOP STORIES: U.S. Independent Movie 'Bob and the Trees' Wins Top Award at Karlovy Vary Film Fest...

Karlovy Vary eSHOW DAILY NUMBER THREE 07.12.15

TOP STORIES U.S. Independent Movie 'Bob and the Trees' Wins Top Award at Karlovy Vary Film Festival By Will Tizard KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic -- Diego Ongaro’s debut feature, a portrait of a prickly American iconoclast, “Bob and the Trees,” won the top prize, the Crystal Globe, at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival Saturday. The event, wh... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Karlovy Vary Artistic Head Karel Och Weighs in on Fest's Anniversary Edition By Peter Debruge As the Karlovy Vary film festival celebrates its 50th edition, artistic director Karel Och is wrapping his fifth as head of the Czech Republic-based event. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Cannes' Un Certain Regard Winner 'Rams' Sells Across Eastern Europe (EXCLUSIVE) By Leo Barraclough KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic -- Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based sales outlet New Europe Film Sales has closed further distribution deals on Grimur Hakonarson’s Icelandic film “Rams” (Hrutar), which won the Un Certain Reg... Read Full Story at Variety.com → 'Bob and the Trees' Director Diego Ongaro on the Life of a Charismatic Logger By Reece Ristau Whenever a tree falls in western Massachusetts, there’s at least one person around to hear it. Bob. That’s because the rural middle-aged logger and protagonist of “Bob and the Trees” is likely the one who caused it to... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Harvey Keitel on Brilliant Auteurs and the Importance of Independents By Will Tizard KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic -- Career tough guy character actor and indie producer Harvey Keitel had Czech audiences mesmerized at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival on Friday with no-nonsense tales of slapping around actors and coming up throu... Read Full Story at Variety.com → 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Star Jamie Dornan on Playing Anti-Nazi Hero in 'Anthropoid' By Leo Barraclough KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic -- "Fifty Shades of Grey" star Jamie Dornan was among the guests at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival Thursday, where he presented his next movie project "Anthropoid," which begins filming in the Czech Republic next... Read Full Story at Variety.com → 'Box' Director Florin Serban on Why He Set Up an Acting School in Bucharest By Alissa Simon KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic -- In 2010, Romanian helmer-writer Florin Serban nabbed several prizes at the Berlinale with his impressive feature debut “If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle.” After training the non-pro youths who play ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → 'Magic Mountain' Director Anca Damian on Anti-communist Dissident, Mountain Climber Adam Jacek Winkler By Will Tizard KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic -- Anca Damian’s “Magic Mountain,” a riot of interwoven animation, archival images, handmade art and prickly politics, is likely the only Karlovy Vary Film Festival competition contender that re... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Karlovy Vary: Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala on Playing Games in 'Goodnight Mommy' By Guy Lodge Mutually catholic taste in movies is what brought writer-director team Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala together 17 years ago, when Fiala, then a film student, would babysit Franz's children in return for VHS rentals. Read Full Story at Variety.com → 'Gold Coast' Director Daniel Dencik Depicts West African Slave Trade By Seth Kelley Variety speaks to Danish writer and director Daniel Dencik, whose historical drama "Gold Coast" has its international premiere at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival on Thursday. The film includes music by composer Angelo Badalamenti. De... Read Full Story at Variety.com → REVIEWS Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Stop' By Guy Lodge "Turn off the electricity!" screams a nascent environmental activist in Kim Ki-duk's "Stop," his words falling upon deaf ears in the aggressively lit streets of Tokyo. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Babai' By Alissa Simon The pic’s poignant subject matter trumps its stolid, sometimes clunky execution. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Gold Coast' By Peter Debruge A Danish botanist’s naive optimism clashes with the harsh reality of West African colonial life in “Gold Coast,” an atmospheric early-19th-century morality tale in which the salt air, humidity and horror of its distant remo... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Home Care' By Alissa Simon As in the best village dramedies from the likes of Milos Forman, Jiri Menzel and more recently Bohdan Slama, helmer-writer Horak here neatly captures the details of small town life through piquant observation. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Song of Songs' By Guy Lodge An aching nostalgia for a life that never quite existed courses softly through "Song of Songs," a brief, oblique and rather lovely study of independence asserted and childhood dreams dashed within the Hasidic Jewish community. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'The Red Spider' By Peter Debruge Inspired by one of the world’s youngest serial killers, genre-bending Polish thriller “The Red Spider” spins a web that openly challenges pro-forma slasher pics in which corpses accumulate while a detective races to solve t... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Film Review: 'The World Is Mine' By Jay Weissberg Debuting helmer Nicolae Constantin Tanase shows off his assertive though undisciplined style in this drama of a teen girl with a misplaced crush on the local stud. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Film Review: 'Bob and the Trees' By Ben Kenigsberg A life of quiet desperation gets an immersive, occasionally too-quiet treatment in "Bob and the Trees." Read Full Story at Variety.com → Tweet this Forward this

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