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Arts46th edition of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival brings celebrities, film enthusiasts and industry professionals to west Bohemian spa town
For the 46th time, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival kicked off
on July 1st. As every year, celebrities and hordes of young film
enthusiasts alike flocked to the west Bohemian spa town. Among the famous
visitors this year are the legendary British actress Judi Dench and
American actor John Turturro. Sarah Borufka was at the festival and has
this report. More
One on OneRadim Špaček, director of Walking Too Fast: if you wait long enough it will happen
The psychological thriller Walking Too Fast recently triumphed at Czech
Lions, winning five awards including best Czech film of 2010. The movie,
set in the early 1980s, tells the story of a communist secret police agent
who eventually loses his mind. But when the film was first released in
February 2010, it only attracted some 20,000 viewers and ranked far below
the top 50 films of the year. Following its success at the Czech Lion
awards, Walking Too Fast has been re-released – but why did it fail a
year ago? That’s a question for the film’s director Radim Špaček. More
Current AffairsUnderdog arthouse film sweeps Czech Lion nominations
This year’s nominations for the Czech Lions – the awards given annually
by the Czech Film and Television Academy – offered a big surprise, when a
little-noticed film called Pouta (Walking Too Fast) walked away with 13
nominations in only 12 categories, a record for the Lions. Whether it will
lose in the end to bigger-budget and more conventionally made films will be
interesting to see, but for now the nominations themselves mean a serious
accomplishment for art-house cinema in the Czech Republic. More
Current AffairsNew Film Critics’ Awards recognise best in Czech cinema
Thursday evening saw the awarding of the first-ever Czech Film Critics
Awards at Prague’s Archa Theatre. The awards are meant as a dignified
alternative to the more commercial Czech Lions, which are given by the
Czech TV & Film Academy. More
Business NewsBusiness News
In Business News this week: the Central Bank says it may cut interest rates
further, the Czech Republic’s fourth biggest beer producer Budějovický
Budvar is bringing out an 11 percent brew and hobby markets in the Czech
Republic are doing good business despite the crisis.
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Current AffairsLegendary “Sandokan” star of this year’s Prague Bollywood Festival
All this week Prague has been playing host to the sixth annual Bollywood
festival of Indian film. The festival has grown from an informal gathering
of film students into a major cultural event, echoing the transition of
Bollywood itself into a mainstream art form with mass appeal across the
globe. And, as Rob Cameron reports, the special guest at this year’s
festival is a cult figure for a generation of Czechs.
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ArtsGlobalising Bollywood - Prague hosts 4th annual panorama of Indian film
The Prague Bollywood Festival, now in its fourth year, all came about back
in 2003, when three friends - students at Prague's Film Academy FAMU -
organised a few showings of Indian films for their fellow students. The
following year they decided to organise a real film festival, at Zizkov's
arthouse Aero Cinema. That was such a resounding success, so they did it
again the next year.
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Current AffairsExhibition of Bengali film posters opens in Prague
A rather unusual exhibition opened in Prague's Adria Palace on Friday - a
collection of film posters representing decades of Bengali cinema. Unlike
the commercial song and dance extravaganzas of Bollywood, Bengali cinema
is known for its bold experimentation, and the Bengali film industry is
one of the oldest in India. Its most famous proponent is the director
Satyajit Ray, whose 1955 classic The Song of the Road was the first Indian
film to enter the international arena of art cinema. At the official
launch
Radio Prague spoke to the exhibition's curator, Martin Hribek. More
Czechs TodayFilmmaker Radim Spacek - from FAMU to 'Dreamless Nights'
In this edition of Czechs Today Jan Velinger talks to Czech film director
Radim Spacek, whose projects have combined documentary and fiction
elements in new ways, twisting traditional narrative. In the past his
subjects have included difficult themes such as suicide and war but also a
famous crisis at Czech TV.
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