Near the close of Howard Hawks’ 1932 film Scarface, Paul Muni’s worn out hoodlum looked up to see a billboard for Cook’s Tours with a slogan that, with more tha...
Inverted commas withstanding, “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” seems like an awfully long and pretentious thing to call a film. Indeed, it...
To be painfully frank, when it comes to young actors in coming-of-age movies, the road from breakout performance to any kind of relative success (or even freque...
If the protagonist of Diamantino reminds you of a certain celebrity it is, as we can only presume, not accidental. The character in question–for whom this hallu...
One of the best showcases of international cinema, the annual Karlovy Vary International Film Festival kicks off today and we'll be on the ground covering n...
Initially premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, An Elephant Sitting Still is the directorial debut drama from the late Chi...
Dating back to 1948, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is one of the oldest film festivals in the world and has become one of Eastern and Central...
One of the most compelling, intense character studies I've seen in a great while is Western, which made its premiere at last year's Cannes Film Festival. Af...
Karlovy Vary is far from the most exposed international film festival, but their programming is generally rather fine and the more immediately accessible en...
After his well-recieved debut Corrections Class, Russian director Ivan Tverdovsky has returned with his entry into the Karlovy Vary Film Festival with Zoolo...