Open AccessThe New Vicissitudes of Auteur Cinema
Author(s) -
Christina Stojanova
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
kinema
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2562-5764
pISSN - 1192-6252
DOI - 10.15353/kinema.vi.1218
Subject(s) - movie theater , hollywood , film festival , white (mutation) , art , art history , german , adventure , hospitality , visual arts , history , tourism , archaeology , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
THE NEW VICISSITUDES OF AUTEUR CINEMA: KARLOVY VARY 2010 The Festival and its Ambiance The Karlovy Vary Film Festival is a place where everyone feels at home - from the brightest stars of world cinema and Hollywood staying at Grand Hotel Pupp, to the student back-packers, who arrive in numbers every year and, in anticipation of some last minute ticket availability, squat in the hallways of Hotel Thermal, housing the festival headquarters as well as five festival film theatres. This unassuming hospitality was elegantly emphasized in the festival film vignettes, shown before each screening. Witty animation tributes to the festival president Jií Bartoška and its artistic director Eva Zaoralová, inspired by the Pink Panther and Iakov Protazanov's Aelita respectively, were paired with a series of black-and-white shorts, starring some of the most illustrious recipients of the festival's Life-Time Achievement Award, the Crystal Globe, and featuring the statuette's mostly...