Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 

41st Karlovy Vary IFF

June 30 - July 8, 2006

Interviews

Music the main character, says Andy Garcia of directing debut

Andy Garcia is one of the special guests at this year’s KVIFF, where he received a Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the opening ceremony on Friday evening. Before the ceremony he told us a little about his directing debut, The Lost City.
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New film Time reflects South Korea’s boom in plastic surgery, says director Kim Ki-duk

The world premiere of Time by the South Korean director Kim Ki-duk opened this year’s KVIFF; just ahead of the screening he spoke to us about his new film. Click on the link below to watch the complete video of this interview (Czech dubbing).

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Please Dad, I am the director!

Danny Huston is in Karlovy Vary to present a retrospective of films by his father, the legendary John Huston. Ahead of the opening film of he gave us a short interview.

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Female director helps tough guy Danny Trejo go against type

Danny Trejo is a Hollywood hard man best known for his roles in such films as Desperado and From Dusk Til Dawn. He is in Karlovy Vary for the international premiere of competition picture Sherrybaby by Laurie Collyer, in which, for a change, he gets to play a good guy. We caught up with him at the Grand Hotel Pupp.

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Terry Gilliam happy to anger some people with new film Tideland

Ex-Monty Python man Terry Gilliam is at KVIFF to present his latest film Tideland, an American Gothic fantasy based on the novel of the same name by Mitch Currin. The director spoke to us shortly before he personally introduced the movie at Thermal on Tuesday.

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Wilde one of inventors of modern drama, says star of new Lady Windermere’s Fan adaptation Tom Wilkinson

Tom Wilkinson is in Vary with his A Good Woman, which is based on Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde. The British character actor (who has appeared in everything from In the Bedroom to Batman Begins) gave us a few minutes of his time on Wednesday.

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Director Caton-Jones says capturing Rwandan genocide correctly a responsibility

Michael Caton-Jones is in town to present his picture Shooting Dogs (Horizons section), which is set against the background of the horrifying Rwandan genocide of 1994. The Scottish director – who found last year’s KVIFF guest Sharon Stone hard to work with on Basic Instinct II – gave us a short interview at the Hotel Pupp on Wednesday morning.

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Many competition films focus on family, says grand jury head Goran Paskaljević

Goran Paskaljević, one of the most distinguished directors from the former Yugoslavia, studied film at Prague’s FAMU school. He is currently at KVIFF as president of the grand jury, which will decide which of the 15 films in competition wins this year’s main Crystal Globe award. He spoke to us before a screening at the Thermal’s Grand Hall.

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Suggested violence better than graphic brutality, says Gangster No. 1 star Saffron Burrows

The British actress Saffron Burrows, came to this year’s KVIFF to present the unusually violent film Gangster No. 1. Ahead of the screening she gave us a short interview at the Grand Hotel Pupp.

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Producing giant Robert K. Shaye touched to receive award with Jan Němec at closing ceremony

Robert Shaye is perhaps the most important guest at this year’s KVIFF, where he will receive a special award for outstanding contribution to world cinema at the closing ceremony tonight. Ahead of the event, the founder of New Line Cinema spoke to us about his beginnings in the movie business, the gestation of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, his next big project The Golden Compass, returning to the director’s chair and Czech New Wave cinema.

You are receiving a special award on Saturday together with the Czech director Jan Němec...

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Timothy Hutton recalls filming at Pupp on last visit to Karlovy Vary

Timothy Hutton, who won an Oscar for his performance in Ordinary People, is at Karlovy Vary with Robert Shaye. Shaye is a highly successful producer, but is returning to the director’s chair with Mimzy, which the actor stars in. We spoke to Timothy Hutton about Mimzy, his early success, his peers Tom Cruise and Sean Penn, directing the video to the Cars’ Drive and filming at Karlovy Vary’s Grand Hotel Pupp.

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