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Current AffairsKawasaki’s Rose chosen to vie for Best Foreign Film Oscar
The Czech Film and Television Academy has made its choice for which film to
send to the 2011 Academy Awards, putting its trust once again in director
Jan Hřebejk for his drama Kawasaki’s Rose. That Mr Hřebejk has Oscar
potential we already know – his WWII drama Divided We Fall was nominated
for the Best Foreign Language Oscar in 2000 – but was Kawasaki’s Rose
indeed the best candidate for an Oscar on offer; that’s a question I put
to film critic Ilona Francková.
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One on OneSteen Agro: making a film splash on a shoestring
Steen Agro made a big impact with his first full length feature film, the
British-Czech black comedy ‘Shut up and shoot me’ (Sklapni a zastřel
mě) in which Czech actors Karel Roden and Anna Geislerová had star roles.
Five years on, he has moved to Prague and is seeking to build on his debut
success. …..I asked him how tight were the purse strings for that first
feature film.
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Current AffairsCzech cinemas enjoying record earnings
Looking at the sales for Czech cinemas for the last half year, it seems
there’s no business like show business for riding out an economic crisis.
This week, the Union of Film Distributors released the results of domestic
cinemas for the first six months of 2010, and they showed record earnings
– a whopping 747 million crowns – as well as nearly a million more
movie-goers. Christian Falvey has this report.
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ArtsNew Hřebejk film Kawasaki’s Rose casts an unusual look at totalitarian past
Kawasakiho Růže or Kawasaki’s Rose is the newest film by the successful
Czech director-screenwriter duo Jan Hřebejk and Petr Jarchovský. In
Kawasaki’s Rose, Hřebejk, considered one of the leading directors of his
generation, explores a story about family tensions, but as the conflict
between the characters escalates, the film becomes deeply political.
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One on OneAnna Geislerová is seeking a challenge
Interviewing Anna Geislerová leaves you with little doubt as to how she
came to be the most well-known actress in the Czech Republic. She hardly
needs a role to be a fascinating character in her own right:
individualistic,
forthright, thoughtful and indeed very charming. She puts her personality
into
a lot of different activities - literary, charitable, social, artistic -
and
the country loves her for it. But the Czech Republic has become too small
for Anna Geislerová. In the illustrious Vinohrady Theatre, where she was
doing a photo shoot, we talked about where she’s going now and how she
got to where she is. More
Current AffairsActress Anna Geislerová to host top Czech literary awards
If you are a writer or translator in the Czech Republic, then about the
biggest accolade you can get is a Magnesia Litera award. The eighth annual
Magnesia Litera was launched on Tuesday, with organizers saying they had
more than 320 new Czech releases to read their way through and judge.
Awards are given for the best new Czech fiction, poetry, children’s
literature, and translation, with the Czech public also voting for their
own favourite book of the year. The winners will be revealed at a glitzy
ceremony in Prague next month, hosted by Czech actress Anna Geislerová.
Earlier on, she told me why she’d got involved:
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Current AffairsGeislerova shows how DIY charity is done
Ana Geislerova is one of the Czech Republic's most popular young actresses,
having appeared in hit films such as "Sileni", or
"Lunacy", and "Kraska v Nesnazich", or "Beauty in
Trouble", which is in theaters now. All this past weekend, however,
she's been doing something a little different: running a charity swap
meet.
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