The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Why don’t we get to see these films?
RITA DI SANTOS takes us through an excellent showcase of new films that distributors in the UK should pay attention to
DADDY ISSUES: David Prachar in Tomas Klein’s A Sensitive Person
[Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary]
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2023
THE quiet, charming Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary (formally Karlsbad) wakes up once a year to the exciting buzz of one of Europe’s largest and most vibrant film festivals.
Backpacking youngsters come from all over the Czech Republic to see movies, clearly carefully chosen by people who know what they are about. With a total of 445 films from more than 60 countries, it is also a global event, and a great percentage of the selection are from young directors, bringing a different way of filmmaking, and breaking boundaries between fiction and documentary.
This festival is also a unique opportunity to understand what has happened to the heritage of Jaromil Jires, Jiri Menzel, Ewald Schorm, Milos Forman, Vera Chytilova, the most famous exponents of the Czech “nova vlna” (New Wave) of the 1960s, all young students of Famu, the famous film school, who gained international recognition when Menzel won an Academy Award for Closely Watched Trains (1966).
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