Karlovy Vary Film Fest Awards Go to ‘Fruit Gathering,’ ‘The Guest,’ ‘Lover, Not a Fighter’ and ‘Incinerator’

Karlovy Vary Film Fest Awards Go to ‘Fruit Gathering,’ ‘The Guest,’ ‘Lover, Not a Fighter’ and ‘Incinerator’

Aung Phyoe’s Fruit Gathering won the Grand Prix — Crystal Globe, the top award, at the closing ceremony of the 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF). The Special Jury Prize went to Mads Mengel’s The Guest, starring Trine Dyrholm (The Girl With the Needle, Poison), Simon Bennebjerg (The Pact, Promised Land) and Josephine Park (The…

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‘The Sopranos’ Creator on Hollywood “Going Back to Greed and Fear” and if Anti-Heroes Paved the Way for Trump: The Point Was It’s Not “Cool if You’re Corrupt”

‘The Sopranos’ Creator on Hollywood “Going Back to Greed and Fear” and if Anti-Heroes Paved the Way for Trump: The Point Was It’s Not “Cool if You’re Corrupt”

The Sopranos creator David Chase drew a huge crowd at the 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) in the Czech Republic on Tuesday. A day after discussing with select reporters at KVIFF one thing he’d change about the enduring hit drama today and sharing insights into his new HBO limited series project, Project: MKUltra, based on John Lisle’s nonfiction book Project…

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Jesse Eisenberg on Why He Doesn’t Want to Be Associated With Mark Zuckerberg

Jesse Eisenberg on Why He Doesn’t Want to Be Associated With Mark Zuckerberg

Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain, When You Finish Saving the World, The Social Network) told the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) about social media and his thoughts on Facebook parent Meta Platforms chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Saturday. Asked about playing Zuckerberg in The Social Network, Eisenberg recalled: “He wasn’t very well-known at the time, so the movie…

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“The White Devil” Takes Karlovy Vary: Robert Richardson Receives Honor From a Paper-Ripping Harvey Keitel

“The White Devil” Takes Karlovy Vary: Robert Richardson Receives Honor From a Paper-Ripping Harvey Keitel

“The White Devil” got the red carpet treatment at the 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Sunday. Legendary cinematographer and three-time Oscar winner Robert Richardson received the Czech festival’s highest honor, the Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contributions to world cinema, in its 80th year. And handing him the award was none other than…

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Jesse Eisenberg Is Getting Polish Citizenship and Wants to Work More in Europe: In the U.S., the “Kind of Films I Love Are Increasingly Difficult to Make”

Jesse Eisenberg Is Getting Polish Citizenship and Wants to Work More in Europe: In the U.S., the “Kind of Films I Love Are Increasingly Difficult to Make”

Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, A Real Pain, When You Finish Saving the World) will in the coming days receive Polish citizenship and hopes to spend more time making movies in Central Europe because the kind of films he likes to create are more and more difficult to make in Hollywood, he said on Saturday. The actor,…

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“I Speak to Him Every Day”: Nader Saeivar on ‘Hijamat’  and Premiering It Without Jafar Panahi

“I Speak to Him Every Day”: Nader Saeivar on ‘Hijamat’ and Premiering It Without Jafar Panahi

The world premiere of family drama Hijamat will be a bittersweet moment for Iranian writer and director Nader Saeivar (The Witness, No End, Namo). After all, the film was produced and edited by his long-time friend and creative collaborator Jafar Panahi. The auteur duo co-wrote Cannes 2025 Palme d’Or winner It Was Just An Accident, but only Saeivar will get to travel…

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